UN News - The economic crisis caused by the COVID pandemic is expected to contribute to global unemployment of more than 200 million people next year, with women and youth workers worst-hit, UN labour experts said on Wednesday. The International Labour Organization (ILO) also maintained in a new
After months of deliberations, the World Health Organization said that COVID-19 variants will now be assigned with the letters of the Greek Alphabet. The decision came amid criticism that those given by scientists such as the so-called South African variant, which goes by multiple names including
After decades of groundwork and a series of postponements, the Dominica International Airport is finally ready to take off. On Sunday, Dominica Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit announced that his government is slated to sign a contract on June 9 with a UAE-based consultancy firm to officially
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting another "above-normal" Atlantic hurricane season with 13 to 20 total named storms. NOAA predicts that six to ten of those storms were likely to become hurricanes, with wind speeds of 74 mph or higher. Likewise, the agency
UN News - In Haiti, the number of severely malnourished under-fives could more than double this year, UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Monday. Some could die if they do not receive timely treatment. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, children’s lives on the Caribbean island have been increasingly
Trinidad and Tobago will adjust restrictions and curfew to the daytime period on the two public holidays scheduled this week, the Indian Arrival Day on Monday and Corpus Christi on Thursday, to limit movement during the day. At a media briefing yesterday, Prime Minister Keith Rowley
CARPHA Release - Under the theme Pandemic, NCDs and Climate Change – The Caribbean’s Triple Threat, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in collaboration with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), will host its first-ever virtual health research conference, from 16 to 19 June 2021. In
UN News - With fears that one of the world’s most active volcanoes could erupt again in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is warning that up to 400,000 – nearly 280,000 children – could be displaced and in
After more than a year when borders were closed globally to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has given its approval to Celebrity Cruises, a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group, to begin sailing again in June. "We’re
ASSOCIATED PRESS — General Motors is teaming up with Lockheed Martin to produce the ultimate off-road, self-driving, electric vehicles — for the moon. The project announced Wednesday is still in the early stages and has yet to score any NASA money. But the goal is to
