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“Our actions are our future – A Zero Hunger World is possible by 2030,” is the theme to celebrate this year’s World Food Day on Tuesday, October 16th, 2018. The theme chosen provided an opportunity to show FAO’s commitment to attaining Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – to achieve #ZeroHunger by 2030.
The Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, acting on the advice of the Pesticides Board, has placed an immediate suspension on the importation into Saint Vincent and the Grenadines of Round-Up, Touchdown, Glyphos and any other chemical containing the active ingredient glyphosate, pending a technical review by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour.
Members of the public got the opportunity to take a closer look at the services being offered at the National Insurance Service's (NIS), Golden Years centres, when they attended an open- day at the Black Point facility.
Local Stakeholders in Early Childhood Education braced the inclement weather to meet at the Methodist Church Hall on 28th September 2018 for a national consultation on “Early Identification and Intervention for Delays and Disabilities in the Early Years.”
The Caribbean region is poised to benefit from increased humanitarian assistance following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and humanitarian service provider, Rescue Global (RG). The signing took place September 19th, 2018, at the CDEMA Coordinating Unit in St. Michael, Barbados.