[Caribbean News\OECS]
The objective of the second project is to understand and decrease the risks directly due to natural disaster and the subsequent disruption in healthcare for vulnerable persons with diabetes and other NCDs in 6 Eastern Caribbean states recently affected by natural disasters – Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Dominica, Montserrat and St Kitts and Nevis.
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[Caribbean News\Antigua & Barbuda Independence]
Prime Minister Gaston Browne: “Today, we celebrate with pride, the contributions of all citizens and residents, to include: our nurses, doctors, teachers, police officers, soldiers and the other public servants, as, well as, those in the private sector for their sterling contribution to nation building.”
Ambassador Dr. Walton Webson: “We have come from bondage in the sugar cane and cotton fields, colonial beginnings, to a place of strong self- governance at home, with men and women who pursue all fields of endeavor with reason, excellence, and skill.”
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[Caribbean News\Climate Change]
Shabaka Kambon: “We may have to start in early education to promote lifestyles that are less consumption-oriented, less energy-intensive and more concerned about the natural ecosystems upon which human life depends.”
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[Caribbean News\Fashion]
Kimya Glasgow holds an Associate Degree in Fashion Design from the Barbados Community College and has been mentored by several of the Caribbean’s most influential designers, including Trinidadian fashion maven Claudia Pegus, with whom she apprenticed. She has been shown in Miami Fashion Week, Caribbean Fashion Week in Jamaica, Fashion Week Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados Fashion Week, St. Kitts Fashion Weekend and repeatedly in Fashion Caribbean – St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ premier Fashion show. She is a 2009 Caribbean Fashion Awards winner.
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[Caribbean News]
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: “We wish to make it clear that our small size or perceived ranking in global affairs should not lead to false assumptions or conclusions about the strength of our resolve and determination in the fight for justice.”
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[Hurricane Dorian]
OECS Director General Didacus Jules: “Dorian reminded us that our sisterhood is not just a common history and that our brotherhood bears the scars of the same vulnerabilities… Today is a role call of family, a call to give not as charity but as the obligation of family. Bahamas’ burden of pain is also our anguish, Bahamas’ loss is our impoverishment… And, sadly with the inevitability of climate change, tomorrow for any of the rest of us.”
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