2025 LACC/CPC Webinar Series #1: The Public Health Dimension of the Caribbean Crime Conundrum
Date & Time
Feb 19, 2025 10:00-11:30 AM EST
Description
Panel discussion organized by LACC and the Caribbean Policy Consortium for the 2025 Webinar Series. The first webinar will discuss the Crime Conundrum, an overall status assessment, using the CARICOM crime symposium held in Georgetown last December 2024 as data input as well as some Mental Health Aspects of the Crime Conundrum.
Background
Crime and violence continue to wreak havoc on Caribbean societies, demonstrating the dangerous mixture of guns and gangs in several places, and impacting safety and security in a variety of ways. Quite understandably, the upsurge in homicides in recent year in many nations, which necessitated declarations of States of Emergency in Jamaica, Haiti, and, most recently in Trinidad and Tobago, highlights the law enforcement and national security aspects of the conundrum. However, there are serious public health and other implications, which warrant attention. This webinar pays attention to crucial public health aspects.
PANELISTS:
Mr. Callixtus Joseph
Acting Assistant Director of Policy, Strategy, and Innovation at the Caribbean Community Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (CARICOM IMPACS)
Dr. Elizabeth Ward
Professor of Practice in Violence and Injury Prevention, University of the
West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Mr. Hance Richards
St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force Special Reserves Sargeant and doctoral candidate, Texila American University
MODERATORS:
Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
Founding Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium and Senior Associate.
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Dr. Anthony Pereira
Director, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University