5th World Conference on Women 2003

We believe that the time has come for the feminist movement to begin to ask important questions about the efficacy of such world conferences in securing the economic, political and social rights of women, as well as the strategic roles that feminist activists can play at such events.

I do hope our Sports Writers will stop the violence and deal only with the skills demonstrated in the competition and let those who were not present at the game enjoy it from their reports as a sporting event only.

By far the greatest problem affecting women in Christopher and Nevis is the growing number of women who end up dead because of domestic and relationship related violence.

The law in Guyana needs to go a step further in dealing with issues of gender discrimination.

Jamaica has a National Policy Statement on Women.

This fact, however, has done little to arrest the instances of inequity in employment practices, gender violence and exploitation of women and young girls in that Caribbean territory.

In the Netherlands Antilles, in particular Curaçao, female-headed households are more likely than male-headed households to fall below the poverty line.

Leloutie Bhajan, is the owner of Lil’s Photo studio, a business which she moved from Canada to the busy area of east Trinidad, St. Augustine. Here she chats with Jacquie Burgess of the CAFRA Secretariat.