St. John’s, Antigua: Sixty- nine residents and members of staff at the Fiennes Institute benefitted from an Optometry Clinic hosted by the Caribbean Council for the Blind/Eye Care Caribbean, in partnership with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda. The two-day Clinic held on August 22nd and 23rd was led by Dr. Genalin Ang, a Senior Lecturer in Optometry at the University of Guyana and three of her second-year Optometry Students.
Wednesday, August 24,2011 ST JOHNS, ANTIGUA – The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has promised to fully support all waivers, duties, taxes and any other charges regarding the importation of supplies needed by for programmes to carried out in the country by the Caribbean Council for the Blind/Eye Care Caribbean. This was announced by Finance and Economy Minister, Harold Lovell at Monday’s opening ceremony to mark the start of a two-day Optometry Clinic at the Fiennes Institute. “The programme here is so important that it is something that we need to give very, very special recognition to and whilst it will benefit residents of the …
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The Caribbean Council for the Blind/Eye Care Caribbean (CCB) is one of those non-profit organisations that flies below the radar most of the time, doing a lot of work in the background that doesn’t get much notice from the general public. However, the work that the group has been doing since it was first established in 1967 is significant, so much so that the government of Antigua & Barbuda is now moving to assist it in more official ways. CCB is based in Antigua & Barbuda, and is headed by CEO Arvel Grant. Among the activities …
“There is far too much blindness and low vision in the Caribbean …..more work needs to be done to educate and influence families and especially children and young people on the way diet can have an effect on their health and that includes their vision.” – Baroness Floella Benjamin of Beckenham. 44th Anniversary Meeting of Caribbean Council for the Blind-Eye Care CaribbeanTrinidad and Tobago – July 28th, 2011
Her Excellency the Frist Lady Dr. Jean Ramjohn-Richards on July 28, 2011 received a courtesy call from Lady Floella Benjamin, Baroness of Beckenham at Knowsley, Port of Spain. The Baroness is the feature speaker at the Caribbean Council for the Blind Biennial and 42nd Anniversary General Conference at the Hyatt Regency.
The Jamaica Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities is calling for greater consideration of the needs of members of the disabled community in mitigation planning for instances of natural disaster.
LONDON/SAN DIEGO – The number of adults with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled since 1980 to 347 million, a far larger number than previously thought and one that suggests costs of treating the disease will also balloon. In a study published in the Lancet journal, an international team of researchers working with The World Health Organisation found that rates of diabetes have either risen or at best remained the same in virtually all parts of the world in the past 30 years.
Low-calorie diet offers hope of cure for type 2 diabetes June 26, 2011 – The Guardian British study finds two-month extreme diet can cure type 2 diabetes and overturns assumptions about ‘lifelong’ condition. People who have had obesity-related type 2 diabetes for years have been cured, at least temporarily, by keeping to an extreme, low-calorie, diet for two months, scientists report today. The discovery, reported by scientists at Newcastle University, overturns previous assumptions about type 2 diabetes, which was thought to be a lifelong illness.
A recent study on primary and secondary level schools has confirmed what many already suspect, that most schools do not have the facilities to accommodate students with disabilities (SWDs) nor do most teachers have the specialist training required to relate to them. The report “Access and Inclusion in the Jamaican Education System for Persons with Disabilities”, conducted in 43 high schools and 41 primary schools by the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) at the University of the West Indies, Mona, found that only 23.8 per cent of schools have ramps to accommodate students with physical disabilities. Only 23.8 per cent …
