As President of the Caribbean Council for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CCB-Eye Care Caribbean), I take this opportunity to greet you as we enter 2019. Parts of our organisation are still weathering some very choppy financial waters so sections of our programmes have been negatively impacted during 2018. I am pleased to note that we are at the beginning end of recovering from some personnel losses, which severely affected aspects of our operations in one country.
From All of us, Delegates of the 2014 Caribbean Vision 2020 Meeting To all of you….Best wishes for 2015 !!! With the dawn of 2015, we take this opportunity to thank you for your continued partnership. We wish you a prosperous new year and look forward to working with you as we continue to strive to fulfill our mission of “preventing blindness and visual impairment while restoring sight and creating opportunities for persons whose sight cannot be restored”.
Dear Friends and colleagues: Over the past 47 years, the Caribbean Council for the Blind has worked assiduously to improve issues related to eye-care in our region. We remain committed to this mandate and to the purpose of our organisation “Preventing blindness & visual impairment; while restoring sight and creating opportunities for persons whose sight cannot be restored” As 2015 commences, I take this opportunity as your President, to share a few developments with you, as it is the commitment of our executive to ensure that our members are informed on the most critical issues facing persons who are blind …
The 2013 Caribbean Regional V2020 Committees Meeting was held at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica on 3rd and 4th December. The proceedings were chaired by Arvel Grant, Chief Executive Officer of CCB-Eye Care Caribbean. The meeting provided a platform for sharing, learning and networking between V2020 Committees and persons involved in eye health and paid particular attention to Diabetic Retinopathy – one of the most prevalent causes of blindness in the Caribbean. The meeting also provided an opportunity for delegates to become familiar with the World Health Organization’s global eye health action plan 2014–2019 ‘Towards Universal Eye Health’ – http://www.who.int/blindness/actionplan/en/ …
