UN News - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has unveiled plans to speed up the licensing and use of effective novel vaccines against tuberculosis (TB), the second-leading infectious killer after COVID-19 and the 13th leading cause of death worldwide. Tedros announced the
The government of Dominica is keeping up with its promise of providing climate-resilient houses to its inhabitants, with 18 homes given to families in Bataca and Sineku last Wednesday. Dominica's prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, led the handover of the residential units that were constructed under the
The Government will move swiftly toward transitioning Jamaica into a republic, according to the Prime Minister, the Most Honorable Andrew Holness. Holness, speaking at the Half Moon Hotel in St. James on January 14 for Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett's 25th Anniversary Scholarship Programme, noted that while
UN News - Finding a decent and well-paid job is likely to be harder this year, thanks to the continuing global economic downturn, the UN labour agency said. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), global employment is set to grow by just one per cent in 2023, which
Guyana Invest (National Promotion Agency of Republic of Guyana) and Invest India, (National Promotion Agency of India) have agreed to build cooperation by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU). The MoU was signed at The Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi, India, on January 12, 2023, in
China braces for holiday COVID-19 surge as many travels for the Lunar New Year holidays, also known as the Spring Festival. According to Reuters witnesses, Beijing's main rail station has been packed with passengers leaving the capital in recent days. Meanwhile, daily arrivals in Macau's gambling mecca
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is leading the next UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) happening at the end of 2023, and according to its appointed president-delegate, “the world is playing catch-up” to implement emissions-reduction goals. At the recent Atlantic Council's Global Energy Forum
Release - The Organization of American States (OAS) deployed an Electoral Observation Mission to observe January 18, 2023, general elections in Antigua and Barbuda. The Mission, led by the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding, is comprised of 11 experts and observers from 7 different
UN News - The UN weather agency, WMO, said that 2022 was the fifth or sixth warmest year on record, adding to deep concerns that the likelihood of breaching the 1.5 degree Celsius limit of the Paris Agreement “is increasing with time”. In an alert, the
UN News - Although virus sequencing is vital to detect and track new variants in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing this information must be stepped up globally, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva. “Since the peak of the Omicron wave, the number
