ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC—The legendary former West Indies cricket captain Sir Clive Lloyd appealed to Caribbean Group (CARICOM) leaders on Sunday to concentrate on combatting prostate most cancers as they’d accomplished with non-communicable illnesses prior to now.
Lloyd, certainly one of two individuals to obtain the area’s highest award, the Order of the Caribbean Group (OCC), in the course of the official opening ceremony of the forty seventh regional assembly, mentioned he hoped that the identical emphasis that was being positioned on addressing non-communicable illnesses like hypertension and diabetes could be given to prostate most cancers.
Worldwide knowledge reveals that the Caribbean has one of the crucial important age-standardized prostate most cancers incidences.
“Can I, due to this fact, plead with the Group and related officers that this matter be given pressing consideration and motion?” mentioned Lloyd, who captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985.
The 79-year-old Guyanese-born mentioned he hoped that CARICOM Well being Ministers would take note of prostate most cancers, including that he couldn’t recall “that a lot has been mentioned about it within the area.
“If I’m appropriate, let what I say right now be a name to motion as a result of each one in 4 we do contract this sickness, and loads of our individuals is dying and dying needlessly,” he mentioned, including, “We want males to go and get examined” to curb the variety of deaths from prostate most cancers.
He advised the ceremony that there are actually many different improved methods of testing males over the age of 40 for prostate most cancers which might be extra exact than blood exams, together with salivary exams.
Lloyd additionally proposed, throughout his deal with, that the area set up an annual Caribbean cricket fundraiser to garner much-needed money to reply to the influence of hurricanes and different disasters.
“The Caribbean area can set up a serious cricket occasion, and the most effective gamers worldwide ought to be capable to take part in a sport per yr. I need it to be referred to as the CARICOM Day of Cricket, the place we will generate numerous funds in order that even when we don’t have a hurricane or two for the yr, the cash we have now there can accrue some curiosity,” he mentioned.
Lloyd mentioned that even with out storm impacts, the cash might be spent on addressing different issues.
“I hope that we will get this going, get it off the bottom as a result of it is going to be a vital sport, and the cash that we will accrue might be very, essential for the remainder of the Caribbean,” he mentioned.
In latest occasions, a number of Caribbean international locations have been hit by hurricanes which might be far more ferocious, leading to deaths and hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in destruction.
With the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season, which ends in November, simply 4 weeks previous, Hurricane Beryl, a class 5 storm, left a path of dying and destruction on July 1 because it made its approach by means of Grenada’s dependencies of Carriacou and Petit Martinique and people of St Vincent—Union Island, Bequia, Mayrou, and Canoaun.
Jamaica was additionally closely impacted by Beryl. Regional leaders say the hurricanes outcome from local weather change and blame the extra developed international locations for the scenario.
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