ASSOCIATED PRESS — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced growing pressure Friday to impose a strict nationwide lockdown, despite the economic pain it will exact, as a startling surge in coronavirus cases that has pummeled the country’s health system shows no signs of abating. Many medical
UN NEWS—An international hub for pandemic control, dubbed the "pandemic hub," is to open in Berlin to ensure better preparedness and transparency in the fight against likely future global health threats, the UN health agency announced on Wednesday. Supported by the German Government, the centre will
A 5-megawatt/2.5 megawatt-hours battery energy storage system is slated to provide the Commonwealth of Dominica the necessary reserve power from existing sources of renewable energy in the island in times of calamities and emergencies. This battery storage system will be connected to Dominica's national grid, and is
UN News - The 12th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was declared officially over on Monday, just three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu, but it marks the end of the country’s fourth outbreak of the deadly disease
Yuri Kageyama and Stephen Wade, AP News - Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games. They say they’re already near the breaking point dealing with the coronavirus
Media Release - Caribbean Airlines advises that its commercial flights destined to and out of Barbados will resume from Tuesday, 04 May 2021. Following is the initial schedule of operations: FlightRouteFrequencyDeparture TimeArrivalTimeBW 225Ogle, Guyana to BarbadosTuesday, Friday2:35 PM4:35 PMBW 225Barbados to GrenadaTuesday, Friday5:30 PM6:25 PMBW 224Grenada to BarbadosWednesday,
“First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” Mahatma Gandhi. Monday, April 5, 2021, the Jamaica Observer noted that “Minister of Security Dr. Horace Chang claims if more individuals replicate the respect that “true” Rastafarian men show to
Press Release - The Government of Suriname has received a shipment of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to support its national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The consignment of supplies was procured through funding from the European Union (EU) through the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) Programme of
UN NEWS—A UN staff member in India has described the huge upsurge in COVID-19 infections in her country in recent days as a “tsunami”, and has spoken of the “panic” she felt, as her immediate family became infected with the virus. The number of new infections
Reduced rainfall and river flows. These are just some of the effects of the drought in the region that are now causing significant water deficits to four eastern Caribbean territories, the chief executive officer of the Central Water and Sewerage Authority (CWSA) reported in his opinion
