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The Caribbean Umbrella Body for Restorative Behaviour (CURB) is a Caribbean network of NGOs working to assist and support crime survivors, prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families. Click Here for a Flash file about CURB or visit our website to Find Out More.
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Please Vote in Caribbean RJ Survey
CURB would like to stimulate discussion among Caribbean nationals as to the manner in which we should implement restorative justice.
Click Here to cast your vote in our Online Survey and share your perspective on this important topic which is able to improve victim satisfaction and reduce crime and re-offending.
Search Caribbean Restorative Justice Directory!
In July, 2007 CURB added a Caribbean Restorative Justice Resource Directory to our website. The Directory seeks to list the various agencies which provide support to crime survivors, prisoners, ex-prisoners and their respective families in the Caribbean region.
Persons seeking assistance can search the RJ Directory by Service Provided or by Country. Individuals and agencies which provide services to the target groups are encouraged to Add their Resource to the Caribbean RJ Directory at NO COST!
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Restorative Justice Week 2007
CURB has set its sights on the various institutions in Trinidad and Tobago which accommodate juvenile and adult offenders to highlight the incidences of sexual and other abuses against the inmates by staff and other inmates.
Since March 2007, CURB has been periodically exposing the abuses and lobbying for systemic changes to prevent their recurrence. Our efforts will escalate in November 2007 when we observe Restorative Justice Week with the theme "Not Part of the Sentence". Click Here for an innovative Weblog entry about the issue and Here for a Macromedia Flash file about stopping Prison Sexual Abuse.
Community Focused Groups To Meet on October 6
The October 2007 meeting of Community Focused Groups will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday 6th October 2007 at the St. John London Baptist Church, Pembroke Street, Port of Spain.
Attendees at the October session shall hear of the wonderful ministry to the people of Laventille and Morvant since the killing of Kerwin 'Fresh' Phillips in early September 2007. It will be a time of Thanksgiving and Intercession.
Admission is FREE! All are invited. However, please call 652-1377 to confirm your attendance.
Advanced Rape Crisis Counselling Training
The Rape Crisis Society of Trinidad and Tobago will host an advanced counselling training programme for persons wishing to provide support services to survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence on 5 consecutive Saturdays from 20th October, 2007 to 17 November, 2007. The cost is TT$700.00 per person including materials and lunch.
Interested persons must contact the Rape Crisis Society via email at rapecrisistnt@yahoo.com or by phone at (868)622-7273 on or before 10th October, 2007 to register. Payment can be made on the first day of class.
CURB encourages our eNewsletter readers to become equipped to assist survivors of sexual crimes, including those who are assaulted while in prison and juvenile detention centres. For more on prison sexual abuse please click Here.
• Please pray for CURB members and affiliates.
• Please pray for the upcoming activities for Restorative Justice Week and for those inmates who are victims of sexual assault and rape.
• Please pray for the survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence and for the success of the advanced training for counsellors by the Rape Crisis Society.
• Please pray for families of Crime Survivors especially those of Homicide Victims.
• Please pray for continued Turning of the Hearts away from selfishness, hatred and crime and towards the God of creation.
• Please pray for the hearts of the public to be stirred to cry out against sexual and other abuse of incarcerated persons. • Please pray for continued Networking among NGOs in the field of Restorative Justice in the Caribbean region.
• Please pray for the growth of Victim Support Groups and the Victim Support movement in the Caribbean.
• Please pray that there will be a transformation of the Caribbean's Criminal Justice Systems.
• Please pray for Protection for Crime Survivors and for Witnesses in Criminal Trials in the Caribbean.
Access our growing list of publications (media releases, brochures, flyers, speeches, transcripts, articles, etc.) and multimedia resources at the Resources Page within our website.
The Restorative Justice Fund was set up to provide support to crime survivors and their children in particular. To donate to the RJ Fund, please send a cheque or postal money order in the name of CURB RJ FUND to: CURB, P.O. Box 4945, Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago.
For more information about the CURB RJ Fund please visit the RJ Fund Page or download our RJ Fund Brochure.
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CURB extends congratulations to Professor Ramesh Deosaran on the launch of his latest literary work, "Crime, Delinquency and Justice - a Caribbean Reader", which took place on 17th September, 2007 at the Crowne Plaza.