Fit for children

 By Cheryl Springer

The Caribbean Community’s much vaunted special conference on children has come and gone. It is now expected that member states will put measures in place that will eventually make this a region fit for children to live in. The Caricom Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) must be lauded for being bold enough to admit the obvious and for taking the first steps to change this.

Countries participating were also tacitly agreeing that they too needed to buckle down and turn things around. The fact is that with the exception of maybe two or three countries, the whole world falls into the category of being unfit for children. It is, quite possibly, at the worst it has ever been.