The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said that economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean will be slower than the return to productivity following the subprime mortgage crisis more than a decade ago. Alicia Bárcena was speaking during a
Press Release - Jamaican geospatial scientist and Managing Director of GeoTechVision Jamaica, Valrie Grant, has won the 2020 WE Empower UN Sustainable Development Goals Challenge 2020 Award. The award includes a grant of US$20,000.00 towards her company’s Student Digital Citizenship Programme and EduTechAid initiative. Grant was
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says that COVID-19 could spread through airborne particles that can linger in the air for minutes or even hours. In its latest guidance, CDC acknowledged that under certain circumstances, people have become infected by smaller particles
UN News - While COVID-19 has affected all countries, the pandemic is “uneven”, and it is estimated that 10 per cent of the global population may have been infected with the virus, senior officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Speaking to a
United Airlines announced that they are set to expand their service to the Caribbean region by next month as flights to Antigua, Curacao, Grand Cayman, Nassau and St Lucia resumes. "For the month of November, we have adjusted our capacity to add flying for leisure travel to
Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Caribbean as of October 4, 2020. Access the latest WHO data here. Dominican Republic- 113,926 cases, 2128 deaths, 89,635 recovered Puerto Rico- 25,034 cases, 686 deaths French Guiana- 10,029 cases, 67 deaths, 9665 recovered Haiti- 8811 cases, 229 deaths, 6949 recovered Jamaica- 6795 cases, 119 deaths, 2345 recovered Cuba- 5809 cases, 122 deaths, 5145 recovered Guadeloupe- 5528 cases, 57 deaths, 2199 recovered Suriname- 4924 cases, 106 deaths, 4723 recovered Trinidad and Tobago- 4741 cases, 81 deaths, 2843 recovered Bahamas- 4409 cases, 96 deaths, 2375 recovered Aruba- 4074 cases, 30 deaths, 3474 recovered Guyana- 3005 cases, 85 deaths, 1907 recovered Belize- 2131 cases, 29 deaths, 1346 recovered Martinique- 1543 cases, 21 deaths, 98 recovered US Virgin Islands- 1327 cases, 20 deaths, 1265 recovered Turks and Caicos-
More Caribbean nations are set to reopen borders for tourism to start the economic recovery while taking a cautious approach to protect their own people from COVID-19. According to the Caribbean Tourism Association, the region suffered a 60 percent decline in arrivals from January to June
OECS PR - Close to 40 Senior Marketing and Human Resource Managers from the Services, Retail, Manufacturing and Construction sector concluded a breakfast conference with the RePLAST-OECS Pilot Plastic Recycling Project with a high commendation for the proposed Incentivised Collection System which will support the
The Bermuda Progressive Labour Party (PLP) has recorded a landslide victory over One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) in the 2020 general elections, winning 30 seats in the House of Assembly. PLP got 5 more seats from the OBA, leaving the Opposition with only 6 seats in the House
American Airlines announces its collaboration with several governments to begin offering preflight COVID-19 testing for customers travelling on certain flights in the Caribbean. The plan will begin with preflight COVID-19 testing for customers travelling to Jamaica and The Bahamas. The initiative aims to help revive the
