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International Year of the Older Person

Women As Leaders (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Saturday 18 December 1999
Thirty women leaders form 18 national, regional and international organizations in 13 countries attended the two-day leadership workshop for women’s NGOs in the Caribbean. > continue

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Growing Old in Today’s Society (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Sunday 5 December 1999
The issue of ageing is one that has been slow to gain recognition and serious consideration. > continue

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Meet Centenarian - Anais Passe Coutrin (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Saturday 4 December 1999
Anais Passe-Coutrin, nee Dolius, was born on August 9, 1896, at Capesterre in Marie-galante. Orphaned from childhood, she was raised by her older sister, Loulouse. > continue

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The Wages of Impoverishment (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Friday 3 December 1999
In the Dominican Republic, Health Sector Reform (HSR) became an important public issue at the beginning of the ‘90s. > continue

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Descovering the Meaning of Gender (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Thursday 2 December 1999
I remember the first time I heard about gender studies. It was registration day at the University. The usual mad rush. I had chosen Gender in Caribbean Development I and II simply because it sounded and I am not going to lie, a lot more interesting than women’s studies course. > continue

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Debating Gender Violence (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Wednesday 1 December 1999
The publication in 1986, of Jamaican educator Errol Miller’s The Marginalization of the Black Male, started a discourse on ‘male marginality’ in the Caribbean and has provided a context for a regional backlash of sorts against the women’s movement. > continue

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Poems (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Tuesday 30 November 1999
We is real people
Yes, we is real people
In this wheel of life
But we get squeeze –
Hurt real bad
By de people we trus’
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Police Officers Attend Domestic Violence Seminar (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Monday 29 November 1999
It was heart-warming to see 26 police officers among the 169 men and women at the Second Regional Conference on Sexual and Domestic Violence, held in The Bahamas, from November 4 – 7, 1998. > continue

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WANTED: A Gender & Communication Policy for the Caribbean (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Sunday 28 November 1999
Approximately 30 persons, mainly media practitioners, from English, Spanish and French/Creole-speaking countries, Canada and USA came together for a three-day conference on Gender and Communication Policy, from November 19-21, 1998, in Kingston, Jamaica. > continue

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International Women’s Day (International Year of the Older Person 1999)

Friday 26 November 1999
Every year International Women’s Day is held, more and more Caribbean countries “catch the fever” > continue

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