By Caribbean News Now contributor GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (CARICOM IMPACS) and the Commonwealth Secretariat have collaborated to build capacity of over 110 participants from Trinidad and Tobago and over 300 regional participants at a three-day course schedule for July 23rd – 25, 2019 in Port of Spain, […]
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GENEVA, Switzerland – World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Dr Joy St John, Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) urged member states to enhance disease […]
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Director-General of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Carol Coy, Wednesday (July 17) quarterly briefing [Photo: Dave Reid] KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) –The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reporting a further reduction in the unemployment rate to a new record low of 7.8 percent. As contained in STATIN’s April 2019 Labour Force Survey, the figure […]
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NEW YORK, USA – Nelson Mandela was an “extraordinary global advocate for dignity and equality” who anyone in public service should seek to emulate, secretary-general António Guterres said marking the International Day that honours the iconic anti-apartheid campaigner, and South Africa’s first democratically-elected president. As “one of the most iconic and inspirational leaders of our time”, […]
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KINGSTOWN, St Vincent — Acres Agricultural Canada Corp., announced that it has received approval from the Medicinal Cannabis Authority of St Vincent and the Grenadines to produce within the country and export internationally, Cannabis in all of its forms for medicinal purposes, on July 11, 2019. This license approval is made in accordance with and […]
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By Caribbean News Now contributor SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Protest action and calls for Puerto Rico’s governor to resign amid corruption and scandal continued on Thursday with more organised demonstrations planned for Friday. The political turmoil comes at a critical stage as reported previously, to US authorities announced indictments involving six people, including two former high-ranking […]
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GENEVA, Switzerland – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomed the European Commission’s evaluation of the Airport Charges Directive (ACD) which highlights the need to further strengthen the directive to protect consumers. Nearly 60 percent of passengers in Europe pass through just 25 airports. Many airports are able to charge prices that would otherwise not […]
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ST JOHNS, Antigua – France, and Germany, along with The Nature Conservancy, have pledged over US$45 million in contributions to the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) to increase resources for biodiversity conservation. At last month’s CBF annual meeting in Antigua and Barbuda, Ulrike Metzger, division head of regional development policy, Central America, Caribbean and Mexico for […]
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados— Inter-sectoral collaboration, commitment and action have been touted as crucial to strengthening regional diagnostic capacity to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) detection and surveillance in the Caribbean. This is the objective of a Triangular Cooperation project between the government of Argentina, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). At the […]
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President Donald Trump told four Congresswomen – Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ilhan Omar to “Go Back” to their “Broken” Countries [BuzzFeedNews] By Caribbean News Now contributor NEW YORK, USA – On Sunday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued a series of raids in ten major cities including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, […]
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