Ke­jan Haynes

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne says Mon­day's re­gion­al sym­po­sium against crime "is not an end in it­self, but rather an im­por­tant step to­ward ev­i­dence-based strate­gies and in­ter­ven­tions that in­volve the widest range of stake­hold­ers in our so­ci­eties."

Among the re­gion­al lead­ers ex­pect­ed to at­tend are Philip Davis, KC, Prime Min­ster of The Ba­hamas & Chair of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment, Mia Amor Mot­t­ley, S.C. Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos, Roo­sevelt Sker­rit Prime Min­is­ter of Do­mini­ca

Browne said the sym­po­sium, which he called the vi­sion of Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley, was a sign the re­gion's Lead­ers have recog­nised, "we are all in this to­geth­er." 

"I am par­tic­u­lar­ly en­cour­aged by the strong par­tic­i­pa­tion at the lev­el of Heads of Gov­ern­ment, Min­is­ters, Com­mis­sion­ers of Po­lice, Lead­ers of Re­gion­al and In­ter­na­tion­al Or­gan­i­sa­tions, and Mem­bers of the Diplo­mat­ic and Hon­orary Con­sular Corps, and the keen in­ter­est shown by our health stake­hold­ers, aca­d­e­mics, so­cial sci­en­tists, the me­dia and the gen­er­al pub­lic," he said."

Oth­er lead­ers ex­pect­ed to at­tend are  Dick­on Mitchell Prime Min­is­ter of Grena­da, An­drew Hol­ness Prime Min­is­ter of Ja­maica, Philip J. Pierre Prime Min­is­ter of Saint Lu­cia, Dr. Ter­rance Michael Drew Prime Min­is­ter of St Kitts and Nevis and Ralph Gon­salves Prime Min­is­ter of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

Ac­cord­ing to a Cari­com re­lease, The top­ics to be dis­cussed over the two days in­clude, Vi­o­lence and Health in the Re­gion; Crime and Vi­o­lence: A Pub­lic Health Ap­proach; Men­tal Health; Transna­tion­al Or­gan­ised Crime; Us­ing Lit­i­ga­tion to Pro­tect Gun Vi­o­lence – Glob­al Ac­tion on Gun Vi­o­lence; Trans-Bor­der Crime; Ed­u­ca­tion and Youth, Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence; Eco­nom­ic In­equal­i­ties as the Dri­ver of Crime and Vi­o­lence; Com­mu­ni­ty ap­proach­es- Restora­tive Jus­tice; Sports and Me­di­a­tion; and the Ju­di­cial Per­spec­tive- Leg­is­la­tion and Ju­ve­nile Jus­tice Re­form.