TRAVEL CHTA urges intervention to accelerate tourism recovery FLORIDA– The Miami-based Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) has called for interventions to accelerate Caribbean tourism recovery, warning that while regional tourism industry stakeholders are encouraged by growing signs of a recovery on the horizon and most businesses have reopened or are planning to, many tourism-related […]
FOCUS ON HEALTH ‘I have a wrist pain. Should I wear a brace?’ By Virginia Nsitem A patient came to my office recently, complaining of right wrist pain. He explained that he uses his phone throughout the day to text and send messages. He also uses his computer to complete work and attend virtual meetings. […]
FREDERICTON – A former New Brunswick doctor who faced a barrage of hate and racism after being accused of violating COVID-19 measures is calling on the premier to apologize after a charge was dropped last Friday. Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola was accused of violating the province’s Emergency Measures Act, but the Crown withdrew the charge […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government said on Saturday that it hopes to re-open the borders within the next four to six weeks as the country acquires more vaccines to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has so far killed 556 and infected 25,801 others in the country. […]
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. […]
TRAVEL Bartlett steps up lobby for vaccine equity at Global Tourism Recovery Summit KINGSTON, Jamaica —Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, has stepped up his lobby for players in the global community to make their voices heard about the issue of vaccine equity and its implications for global economic recovery, as well as the full […]
The Government of Canada will contribute $ 7.5- million dollars to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in response to COVID-19 in 23 countries of the Americas, says a news release from PAHO. The contribution will benefit 15 Caribbean countries – Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — President Dr Irfaan Ali on Friday urged Caribbean countries to move away from the consumption of poor quality food and called on the region’s population to eat agricultural products grown in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) region. Addressing the Regional Food Systems Dialogue, which is a precursor to the United Nations 2021 Food […]
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 […]
FOCUS ON HEALTH Face masks effectively limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission ‘Don’t forget the mask’—although most people nowadays follow this advice, professionals express different opinions about the effectiveness of face masks. An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, has now used observational data and model calculations to answer […]
