In this episode, Cheryl Willoughby, the Director of the Barbados Crime Observatory (BCO), provides information on the Criminal Justice Research and Planning Unit's Crime Observatory. 

The BCO produces reports on the extent and nature of crime in Barbados and is open to partnerships with schools and other agencies focused on youth and health.

INSIDER'S REPORT - BARBADOS CRIME OBSERVATORY

- Independent rights panel finds Israel committed genocide in Gaza 
-  UN rights chief condemns Israeli strike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar 
- Venezuelan migrants contribute $900 million to Ecuador’s economy 

Audio credit: Dianne Penn, UN News
Audio duration: 4'19"

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UN News Today 16 September 2025 - Gaza genocide, Qatar strikes, Venezuela migrants

Before the ban on secondary education in Afghanistan, girls like Fatima Amiri were the target of violent extremists determined to drive them away from school and learning.

CLIP - Afghanistan: Ban on secondary education for girls marks four long years

• Afghanistan: 4-year milestone since girls banned from secondary education 
• Europe: Increase in medics leaving, hits healthcare back home
• 'Innovation index' shows Switzerland in lead, as China makes the top 10

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News


UN News Today 17 September 2025 - Afghanistan education ban, healthcare in Europe, innovation index

“From the field, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg,” Carlos Geha, head of the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) in Pakistan told UN News from Islamabad. 

Audio Credit: Vibhu Mishra, UN News

CLIP - "Needs in Pakistan are huge", senior UN humanitarian official warns

One of the biggest challenges facing local livestock farmers is the rising cost of feed. Dr. Leroy McClean, Consultant with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security, shares practical ideas on how farmers adapt.

FROM SCRAPS TO SUSTENANCE | BAJAN INNOVATION IN ANIMAL FEED

Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles of Barbados and CARICOM Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett discuss what is meant by civilisation in the context of the Caribbean.

INSIDER'S REPORT | BIG CONVERSATIONS | GONSALVES, BECKLES & BARNETT

Catch up on information you might have missed during the week.

This week's programme features:
1.	Arbor Day celebrations | for more information go to IG @nccbarbados.
2.	Alexandra School Alumni Association Fundraising Concert on Saturday, September 27 at 6 p.m. at Alexandra School. 
3.	Senior Games | road tennis

This Week’s In Case You Missed It Opportunities – September 17 - 23:
-	Teaching/school vacancies 
-	Tender notices 
-	Rausing Public Service fellowship 

To download a copy of these opportunities, go to https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/download/in-case-you-missed-it-september-17-23-2025/


IN CASE YOU MISSED IT SEPTEMBER 17 - 23 (2025)

• ‘No end’ expected to floods, storms as world heats up: WMO 
• Gaza: civilians caught in crossfire amid Israeli clashes with Hamas, warns OCHA
• Syria’s fragile gains threatened by foreign militaries and political exclusion

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News

UN News Today 18 September 2025 - climate disasters, Gaza update, Syria

Women and girls account for over half of those killed and injured in the 31 August earthquake disaster; they also make up six out of 10 of those still missing.

Meanwhile, survivors face heightened risks of violence and exploitation, while many remain in tents or out in the open with winter approaching fast, warns UN Women.

“They told me they'd lost their relatives, many still buried in the rubble. They lost their homes, they lost their livelihoods and their source of income,” UN Women’s Special Representative in Afghanistan, Susan Ferguson told journalists in Geneva from Kabul.

“Yet as long as there are women humanitarians on the ground, there is hope that women like this will be able to access support and services,” she insisted.

Afghan women aid workers are already in communities trying to recover, making up 40 per cent of joint assessment teams that have reached hundreds of villages. Often, they’ve trekked for hours through landslides and damaged roads, dodging falling rocks during aftershocks, as Ms. Ferguson explains.

But tough restrictions by the Taliban leadership on Afghan women staff members and contractors from entering UN compounds in the capital, Kabul, has hampered the response, as the UN agency warns that without women aid workers, women and girls will be cut off from life-saving support.

CLIP – Afghan women trek for hours to deliver aid in quake-hit villages: UN Women

• Afghanistan quake aftermath has left women and girls exposed to abuse amid serious shortage of female health workers: UN Women 
• Gaza: lifesaving child nutrition supplies stolen in convoy hijack, reports UNICEF
• Sudan crisis: surge in summary executions by all warring parties OHCHR, OCHA

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News


UN News Today 19 September 2025 - Afghanistan, Gaza, Sudan crisis

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INSIDER'S REPORT - BARBADOS CRIME OBSERVATORY

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