Jump to full article: Barbados Daily Nation (bb), 2008-07-28
Intro: AT ALMOST the same time Barbadians were hearing that a project officer, Wayne Hunte, had been appointed through a grant from the Bloomberg Global Initiative in partnership with four non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to keep an eye on package warnings on tobacco products sold in CARICOM countries, the world was being told of an even . . .
It will be the job of Hunte to ensure tobacco products, particularly in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, carry the appropriate warnings about tobacco being dangerous to health.
Four NGOs - the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados, the Trinidad & Tobago Cancer Society and the Guyana Chest Society - are all partners in the Bloomberg-funded two-year project.
Hunte summed up his task as eventually getting the governments in targeted countries to speak with one voice about putting warnings on tobacco products.
It will be interesting to see if and how the Bloomberg-Gates anti-smoking campaign will reach us and how effective it might be.
A first step in this direction is to ban smoking in public places and calls have been growing for this throughout the world.
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