Castries, Saint Lucia, 21 March 2024. Violence is rightly examined as a public health issue, because it affects physical, mental, and psychosocial health, it affects the individual families, and communities. Violence plagues the Region and represents a huge burden on health systems and has major economic costs to society as a whole. “It is for this reason that, "Violence in the Caribbean: a Public Health Crisis" has been chosen as the theme for the Caribbean Public Heal...