Roseau, Dominica – July 9 , 2010……….Dominica’s Minister for Social Services, Community Development and Gender Affairs, Hon. Gloria Shillingford is presently in Cali, Columbia attending the 2nd Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development of the Member States of the Organisation of American States(OAS).
The theme of the two-day meeting is “Strengthening and providing sustainability to social protection systems”.
Participants will deliberate on ways to improve the management of social protection, inclusion and poverty eradication programmes. There will also be discussion on support for the establishment of the Inter-American Social Protection Network as a mechanism of hemispheric cooperation with the goal of exchanging information on policies, experiences, programmes and best practices in order to strengthen actions to reduce social inequalities, disparities and to halve extreme poverty by the year 2015.
The Meeting will address the human, social and economic impact of recent natural disasters in the region, particularly the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.
Participants will also discuss the negative impact the financial crisis is having on the real economy in relation to employment opportunities and poverty, as well as the challenges this situation creates for national efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals, especially with respect to the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger.
Hon. Gloria Shilingford is expected to return to the state on the weekend.
@Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque: WTF??
@Anonymous:
Anonymous, you seem to contradicting, ” self-contradiction ” that is: one minute you seem to be giving her praise, the next minute you are throwing insults at her.
To be honest with you she does not have to leave Wesley, or Dominica to stuff herself, when in fact she can get anything from the community to which she belongs.
All she has to do is ask in the event she needs something.
Yours truly, the kid from Wesley; I Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque would be more than happy to give to her freely, with no strings attached, and you know why?
Not because of politics, or wanting anything in return from her!
However, it is because we are biologically related, in that her father the late Jonathan ( Dods) Dodds, is my uncle, and my late mother Yvonne (Dods) Dodds, is her aunt, plus she is married to my father’s sister son, no relation to her, and that’s how she became Shillingford.
God Bless.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
@Laureen Charles:
There are many of us who cannot repeat those sentiments you share. Our lives will never be the same because of her involvement in our development.
Any refreshment served.
Tell you what she was my high school English teacher and later by principal. She sure did a damn good job then. I am living proof of that… me with my many accoplishments and all… if I am permitted to toot my own horn.
Laureen Charles, Esq…. AA, AA, BSC, MS, JD – Proud Graduate of the, then St. Andrews High School.
Mamsel pretty we papa. By any means possible put her in the news. we want results not attendance to meetings where there is not postive outcome. She will get plenty refreshments there so she can stuff herself.
@Ga 500: To any non Dominican reading this. Please this comment is not representative of the intelligence of the Dominican people. This person is just a retard.
some strange places alu going eh places that poor and need helppppppppppp