– to be held in Antigua from Monday
THE Caribbean Community Secretariat is seeking to empower CARICOM Member States to tackle more effectively the worsening illicit drug problem within the Caribbean through the development and subsequent implementation of anti-drug campaigns.

To this end, the CARICOM Secretariat has collaborated with the Ministry of Health and Social Transformation and Consumer Affairs, Antigua and Barbuda, in hosting a sub-regional workshop to train Member States in using edutainment to disseminate anti-drug messages.

Supported by the 9th EDF programme, the training intervention will bring together participants from Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Suriname.

The five-day sub-regional workshop that commences on Monday, 28 June, with an official opening ceremony to be addressed by officials from the CARICOM Secretariat and the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, will be followed by a live street theatre production in the Market Square in St Johns, Antigua.