UN News - Blanket COVID-19 vaccine booster programmes could prolong the pandemic and increase inequity, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday. “No country can boost its way out of the pandemic,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking in Geneva during his final press briefing for
GIS - Prime Minister, Dr the Right Honourable Keith Mitchell is grateful for the supply of additional COVID-19 vaccines from the United States. Last week, Grenada received 69,030 doses of Pfizer vaccine from the United States. Receiving a courtesy call last Thursday from Deputy Chief of
The United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26), held last month in Glasgow, failed to deliver on what the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) expected from the meeting, Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett said. Engaging the regional media on December 14 in her first Press Briefing, she said the Region was
UN News - There is now “consistent evidence” that the Omicron variant is outpacing Delta, as COVID-19 continues to account for around 50,000 deaths worldwide every week, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists at WHO Headquarters in Geneva that it was
GIS - Barbados has signed the new United Nations Multi-Country Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, which will cover the period 2022-2026. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and United Nations Resident Coordinator, Didier Trebucq, signed the document on Friday, during a brief
UN News - The World Health Organization (WHO) approved on Friday the Covovax vaccine for emergency use listing (EUL), elevating to nine the number of immunizations approved to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccine is produced by the Serum Institute of India, under licence from Novavax, and will now be part of the COVAX facility portfolio, boosting efforts to vaccinate more people in lower-income countries. WHO Assistant
Media Release - In a handover ceremony, the European Union together with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) provided the Government of Jamaica with a donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and laboratory supplies. The consignment included 12,500 N95 Respirators, 18,750 Isolation Gowns, and 60
Media Release - When natural disaster events struck St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, and Haiti this year, the French Red Cross Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean (PIRAC) sprang into action, sending emergency specialists and humanitarian stocks to support people of
“5 Minutes of Peace: Yoga for Today's Woman”, authored by Saint Lucia's 2015 Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Monetta Wilson, will have a virtual book launch party. The instructional yoga book contains several short routines that each require only 5 minutes to complete, offering women respite
The “Get Grenada Swimming” initiative has just finished its 5-year goal to teach 8,000 swimmers between 2016-2021. Deb Eastwood, Director of the NGO that sponsors Get Grenada Swimming was excited to announce the next 5-year strategy. “We will keep running all our regular programmes over the
