The Office of the Prime Minister (Gender and Child Affairs) together with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted the first Regional Work-Planning Meeting for Child Protection Focal Points in the Caribbean from Tuesday 14th - Thursday 16th August, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain. 

This meeting engaged eleven (11) Regional Children Focal Points across the Caribbean in the sharing of best practices on child protection strategies and consisted of syndicate and plenary sessions, country presentations and site visits to local child protection institutions. 

The Caribbean countries that attended included; Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin Islands and Trinidad and Tobago.

From Left to right - Ms. Muriel Mafico, Deputy Representative; UNICEF Eastern Caribbean Area; Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Honourable Ayanna Webster-Roy, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister. 

Regional and Local Participants of the UNICEF Child Protection Focal Points Meeting.

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