Damage is everywhere including collapsed hospitals and churches Rescue work following the deadly earthquake which struck Haiti on Saturday has been hampered by heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Grace. Tens of thousands of people left homeless by the quake had to decide whether to brave the storm under flimsy tarpaulins or risk returning into […]
By Lincoln DePradine Black Canadians, who have been among those most severely impacted by the Coronavirus, are also facing limited access to COVID-19 vaccines or are hesitant at getting inoculated against the deadly virus. Community-serving agencies such as the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) and CAFCAN – a not-for-profit agency working with African-Canadian children, youth and […]
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago — A postmortem will be conducted to determine how at least 15 people, whose bodies were found in a vessel off the coast of Pembroke last weekend, died. Deputy Police Commissioner, McDonald Jacob, speaking on the state-owned Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT), on Tuesday said that the vessel may have originated from Africa. […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The African Union has allocated 1.5 million doses of the US manufactured Johnson & Johnson vaccines to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana’s Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony announced here on Monday. Regional countries have in the past complained of their inability to secure vaccines from the producing countries because those countries have […]
It was vaccination time down at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto last weekend. The Black Community Vaccine Initiative Team hosted a Pop-up Clinic at which more than 2,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered. The clinic was open to all members of the Black, African, and Caribbean communities,18 years and over, regardless of […]
HAVANA, Cuba — The Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, has reiterated his country’s interest in strengthening cooperation with the countries of the European Union in areas such as trade, energy, transport, tourism, iron and steel industry, mining, health, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. During a recent speech at the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council Meeting, the Cuban […]
EDITORIAL Defeating the new enemy A new enemy. That’s how Ontario Premier Doug Ford describes the COVID-19 variants which are “spreading rapidly ” as we enter the third wave of the current pandemic. Addressing a recent virtual town hall meeting, Dr. Upton Allen, a professor of paediatrics at the University of Toronto, noted that “one […]
A new US initiative for the Caribbean is needed By David Jessop When the economies of the Caribbean and Central America finally exit the pandemic, most will be in crisis. As a recent IMF review of The Bahamas put it, recovery to pre-pandemic levels ‘will likely take years’ and the ‘downside risks loom large’. The […]
OTTAWA — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has updated its guidance on vaccination priorities to include adults from racialized communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and all essential workers, in the second stage of the vaccination campaign. The second stage is expected to start this spring after provinces get COVID-19 vaccines into the […]
EDITORIAL Stay healthy and safe and take the vaccine So the mighty COVID-19 has kept the pre-lenten carnival revellers off the streets of Trinidad this year. The spectacular Trinidad carnival after which the Toronto mas’ extravaganza is modelled, would have been held this week but alas the unrelenting coronavirus did not allow it. And in […]
