This October marks the 11th year that Montserrat will commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a decade since the Pink Ribbon Walk to raise funds for mammograms began. More than 200 women have been...
Feature / Government / News / Opinion
Residents are concerned about the lack of progress by the local police service in apprehending one or more assailants responsible for at least four violent attacks on women in the Davy Hill community. Could the...
Executive Director of the Women’s Resource Centre in St Peters says they are doing something about the women and girls who are being violated and abused. Shirley Osborne, of the centre called Mah-Mah says...
Too many young girls in Montserrat are being violated. Too many women in Montserrat are being abused. Too many families are suffering. The Girls’ Education Project and Mah-Mah – The Montserrat Women’s Resource Centre are...
Feature / Government / Health / News
Montserrat needs a Violence Against Women Act, says the Montserrat Women’s Resource Centre. “Montserrat is in desperate need of laws that protect our women and girls from and provide recourse for dangers such as...
On Friday, November 25th, Royal Poinciana, a Montserratian Women’s Organisation committed to the advancement and elevation of the women of Montserrat will open the island’s first Women’s Resource Centre, called MAMA, in the old...
Spaces are still available for business women on Montserrat who wish to attend a two-day retreat to be hosted by business strategist Nerissa Golden. Lady Maverick Intensive Retreat is being funded by the COSME...
According to the recently released Montserrat Country Gender Assessment (CGA) the island lacks parity in the number of women in the agricultural sector. The CGA notes that “in the absence of an agricultural policy...
