Boutérse calls for urgent measures to stamp out child abuse

Desiré Delano Boutérse

Child abuse has become a major problem and the region must take urgent measures to protect the most vulnerable ones in the Caribbean Community, says  Desiré Delano Boutérse, President of Suriname.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the 32nd Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in St Kitts and Nevis, President Bouterse told his colleague Heads of Government that his country had established a task force in an effort to combat and prevent child abuse in Suriname, said a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.

This Task force, he stated, would coordinate all government institutions that deal with children and advise on concrete steps to implement the