Caricom wants the United Nations to organise a global summit on the worldwide “epidemic” of lifestyle diseases.
On Friday, Caricom and the World Health Organisation (WHO) organised a briefing at UN headquarters on the impact of the so-called non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, strokes, heart diseases and cancer.
“Non-communicable diseases are a development issue as much as a health issue,” said Donatus St Aimee, St Lucia’s UN ambassador. Ala Alwan, an Assistant Director-General of WHO, said non-communicable diseases were responsible for 60 per cent of global deaths.
Douglas reaches across House floor
The Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas, has included a member of the governing party in Nevis in his new cabinet.
The move in effect shores up the position of the governing Labour Party, which won six of the 11 seats in the federal parliament, even though the party took all but two of the eight on St Kitts. Douglas named Patrice Nisbett, an MP of the Nevis Reformation Party, as the Attorney General in the new nine-member Cabinet , which was sworn in on Sunday.
The Reformation Party runs the local government on Nevis but gained only one of the three federal parliamentary seats on the island.
