A Senior Environmental Health Officer says the rise in global temperature can have significant effects on a number of areas including the eco system.
Sylvester St. Ville says the International Panel on Climate Change revealed that since 1976 global climate change has been more apparent with an increased world temperature of 0.6 degrees centigrade.
St. Ville says the world temperature is also expected to increase over the next few years
He was a guest on the “Healthy Environment, Healthy people” program on Kairifm
The Christian Community is playing its part in combating one of the leading causes of morbidity, mortality and disability in the region – Chronic non communicable diseases.
Health coordinator for the East Caribbean conference of Seventh Day Adventist Health ministries, Nurse Priscilla Prevost says the year 2012 has been designated by the East Caribbean Conference as the year for health emphasis.
In this regard a convention is planned under the theme “Healthy living, the key to the prevention, reversal and control of chronic non communicable diseases”.
The Health Minister Julius Timothy will also be present to deliver an address.
The convention begins at 9 am.
Close to 50 young girls will graduate this Friday from a special project of the Dominica Planned Parenthood Association (DPPA).
The project dubbed ‘girls decide girls talk for girls” caters to teenage mothers and other girls at risk.
Family Life Educator in the DPPA, Annie St. Luce says the first phase of the program was implemented in 2010.
The program is funded by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
St. Luce says it is the hope of the DPPA that the lessons learnt will be implemented in the young ladies life.
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Dominican women are being given another opportunity to re-discover their life’s purpose.
This… as plans are underway to host the 3rd annual Phenomenal Caribbean Women Symposium this weekend.
The event which is being held by VF Inc in collaboration with the Gender Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Gender Affairs will be held under the theme “What you conceive you can achieve because God has the power to deliver what He promises”.
The event will commence from 8 am at the Cabrits National Park.
Meantime Henry says there is still room for empowerment where the empowerment of women in concerned.
The featured speakers include Executive Director of the Dominica Association of Persons with Disabilities, Nathalie Murphy and Dominica’s lady of song Ophelia Olivacee-Marie.
While there have been calls for government to put an end to Dominica’s economic citizenship program a top legal professional here says the application of several individuals will be examined before the end of this month.
In 1993 Dominica established an economic citizenship program which allows government to grant citizenship to qualifying persons.
However there have been recent claims that the country’s passports have been found in the hands of criminals, an allegation that government has categorically denied.
But Attorney General Levi Peter told Kairi’s Heng program this morning that the program is legitimate and there is a process that must be followed.
