International Year of the Older Person 1999

The issue of ageing is one that has been slow to gain recognition and serious consideration.

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.

In the Dominican Republic, Health Sector Reform (HSR) became an important public issue at the beginning of the ‘90s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every year International Women’s Day is held, more and more Caribbean countries “catch the fever”

Women of Antigua received another slap in the face in January when all but two Government ministers refused to debate legislation on domestic violence