6 million children in Hurricane Matthew’s dangerous path
From Caribbean360 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Tuesday October 4, 2016 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has activated its emergency response plan as the Atlantic’s strongest storm in years takes aim at Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. UNICEF estimates…
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Earl impacted more than 110,000 children in Belize: UNICEF
By Adele Ramos From Amandala Belize BELIZE CITY, Fri. Aug. 5, 2016–The frightfulness of howling winds and pounding rains emanating from a fierce hurricane such as Earl is enough to traumatize a child. In fact, according to a report released today…
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Monster’ El Niño subsides, La Niña hitting soon
By Baher Kamal From Inter Press Service ROME, Jul 18 2016 (IPS) – As if human-made armed conflicts, wickedness, rights abuse, gender violence, cruel inequality and climate catastrophes were not enough, now the saying “God Always Forgives, Men Sometimes, Nature…
Focusing on child abuse
By Peter Wickham, From Barbados Nation News THE ISSUE of child abuse has recently come sharply into focus as a result of a few well-publicised incidents and there is considerable interest in understanding the national rates and the extent to…
Education minister denies UNICEF pressuring St Lucia to scrap corporal punishment
From Caribbean360 CASTRIES, St.Lucia, Friday August 15, 2014, CMC – St Lucia’s Education Minister Robert Lewis has denied that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is pressuring the country to get rid of corporal punishment in schools. According to the…
Barbados students battle bullies’ detrimental impact in poster contest
Youngsters create artwork for UNICEF co-sponsored competition The attached poster by Lesleyann Downer, 14 of the Springer Memorial Secondary School on Barbados, won first place honors in the “Stop Bullying in Our Schools” poster competition. Primary and secondary school students…
