Healthy Caribbean Coalition

Healthy Caribbean Coalition The Healthy Caribbean Coalition is pursuing a strategy to increase awareness of Chronic Diseases in the Caribbean and what can be done to tackle them.

Protect our children! In Childhood overweight and obesity has increased from 33% to 42%, in 10 years. This is alarming...
12/06/2026

Protect our children! In Childhood overweight and obesity has increased from 33% to 42%, in 10 years. This is alarming!

Direct marketing of high sugar, high salt, high fat foods to children is eroding the efforts being made to encourage a healthier lifestyle. Schools for one should never be the place where children are exposed to these tactics.

Follow the Heart & Stroke Foundation campaign at www.hsfbarbados.org

Yesterday we joined the Heart & Stroke Foundation for the launch of their campaign "Enough" as an integral partner. In o...
11/06/2026

Yesterday we joined the Heart & Stroke Foundation for the launch of their campaign "Enough" as an integral partner. In order to reduce the rising incidence of overweight and obesity for children, the environment which they spend most of their time and can make decisions about what they eat and drink has to be supportive to a healthy lifestyle.

We know children share information readily with their parents when "teacher says to do", we also know the power of marketing and the vulnerability of children. Adults have a responsibility and owe it to our children in all environments to protect them.

Branded giveaways and unhealthy food and beverage sponsorships make ultra-processed foods familiar to children and undermine their wellbeing.

Support removing unhealthy food and drink marketing from the school environment.

Visit hsfbarbados.org to learn more.

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Hope for the Future 3.0 was a success! 🎉Between May 28th and June 6, we took advocacy to the people. We sensitised citiz...
09/06/2026

Hope for the Future 3.0 was a success! 🎉

Between May 28th and June 6, we took advocacy to the people. We sensitised citizens across Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago about nutrition, healthy food environments, and the marketing of unhealthy foods to children.

This Year's activity aligns with the launch of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition and partners digital campaign Make It Make Sense and Caribbean Nutrition Day!

This event reminded us how many voices with one focus could change the landscape. Children deserve school environments that protect their health, support their learning, and make the healthy choice the easy choice.

Support the campaign. Add your name to the Make It Make Sense campaign. 👇🏽

đź”— https://www.healthycaribbean.org/make-it-make-sense-campaign-2026/
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Two decades of multisectoral Governance on NCDs in Barbados: The success story of the National NCD Commission (NNCDC)For...
08/06/2026

Two decades of multisectoral Governance on NCDs in Barbados: The success story of the National NCD Commission (NNCDC)

For nearly two decades, the National NCD Commission (NNCDC) of Barbados has been coordinating a multisectoral response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDS), a major health and development concern in the Small Island Developing State. Advising five different government administrations, the NNCDC directly supported major advances in NCD prevention and control – from taxing sugar-sweetened beverages to introducing smoking bans and a new school nutrition policy.

Twenty years of multisectoral governance on NCDs in Barbados offers a powerful blueprint for advancing coherent policy responses in Small Island Developing States everywhere.

Key lessons include:

🏛️ Strong mandate and a secretariat embedded and resourced within the Ministry of Health sustained multisectoral governance across five government administrations.

🔄 Convening ministries, civil society, academia, and the private sector kept dialogue alive and turned evidence into policy—from beverage taxes to school nutrition.

🤝 Partnerships and civil society engagement secured technical, financial, and advocacy support from regional and global partners, and increased accountability and momentum.

The published Barbados story can be found here:
https://www.knowledge-action-portal.com/en/news_and_events/country-stories/11022

06/06/2026

The Heart and Stroke Foundation's Childhood Obesity Prevention programme continued its advocacy for a healthier future for the island's children, as it hosted its Hope for the Future 3.0 event at National Heroes Square today.



Video: Winston Boyce

Healthy Caribbean Youth advocates at the joint Hope for the Future and National Primary School Diabetes Quiz Finals and...
06/06/2026

Healthy Caribbean Youth advocates at the joint Hope for the Future and National Primary School Diabetes Quiz Finals and Award Ceremony ..
A Healthy Education is a Healthy Foundation

Dr. the Honourable Michael R. Dowlath, Minister of Education, attended the Diabetes Association of Trinidad and Tobago (DATT) National Primary School Diabetes Quiz Finals and Award Ceremony today, Friday 5th June, 2026. The event was held at the Chaguanas Borough Corporation.

Minister Dowlath delivered the feature address at the event, offering student participants words of encouragement and emphasising the importance of advancing health education throughout the nation. "At the end of it, yes, there'll be winners, but I will say, just by our presence here, that all of us are winners- that we are in the right place at the right time to learn the type of information that will make a difference in the future of this country."

This school quiz is designed specifically for Standard Three students across Trinidad and Tobago. This year, the organisers saw participation from hundreds of students representing over one hundred schools nationwide. DATT’s goal is to promote diabetes education among children with an aim to reduce the incidence of non-communicable diseases.

Initiatives like this quiz successfully engage children, parents, and teachers in learning about diabetes, enhancing awareness of its signs, symptoms, complications, and prevention from an early age.

The Ministry of Education continues to support ventures that promote awareness on non-communicable diseases as we continue to foster a safe and healthy school culture for all students.

Is the Caribbean Paying for a Climate Crisis it Didn't Create? On this World Environment Day, we reflect on the change w...
05/06/2026

Is the Caribbean Paying for a Climate Crisis it Didn't Create?

On this World Environment Day, we reflect on the change we have seen over the years where the has experienced severe weather systems with links to

Read đź“š the Op-Ed by HCY Kayla Wright at www.healthycaribbean.org

Hope for the Future 3.0 ~ Make it Make Sense for Our Future Advocating for the removal of marketing of ultra-processed p...
02/06/2026

Hope for the Future 3.0 ~ Make it Make Sense for Our Future

Advocating for the removal of marketing of ultra-processed products (UPPs) in and around schools. Make it Make Sense for the Future on-the-ground activities are taking place in countries across the to show collective support for regulating the sale and marketing of UPPs in and around schools 🏫.

Tune in đź“» on Wednesday June 3rd, 2026 between 7:30pm and 9:00pm on Youth Beats on


01/06/2026

We get that our schools need support. But not all support sends the right message.

Marketing doesn’t always look like an ad. Sometimes it shows up as sponsorships or partnerships. And the brands in schools don’t just get seen… they get remembered.

So, if you’re like us and thinking… does support really have to come with promoting unhealthy products? (especially when the brands they’re exposed to most are often the ones they choose later)

Click the link to add your name!: https://www.healthycaribbean.org/make-it-make-sense-campaign-2026/

Show your support for removing unhealthy food and drink marketing from schools!

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