Press Release - In a handover ceremony, the European Union together with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) provided the Government of Trinidad and Tobago with personal protective equipment (PPE) comprising 7,500 N95 respirator masks and 13,000 surgical masks. The supplies were procured through the 11th
Despite a significant improvement in COVID-19 numbers, the Government of Barbados has announced five “partial lockdown” days to keep the cases on the decline in lieu of Easter celebration. Under the new emergency management directive announced on Saturday, Attorney General Dale Marshall stated that from today,
Grenada Embassy Release - The Government of Grenada represented by the Ministry of Health and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, have announced a cooperation agreement designed to facilitate the registration and distribution of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Grenada and the
UN News - COVID-19 confirmed cases continued to rise around the world for a fourth consecutive week, with around 3.3 million new cases reported in the past seven-day period, the UN health agency said on Wednesday. The number of new deaths from the coronavirus levelled off after a six-week decrease,
OECS Release - The 6th Special meeting of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Authority was convened virtually on Friday, March 19, 2021, under the Chairmanship of Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica. The meeting welcomed the Director General of the
Press Release - The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia, in collaboration with the GEF Small Grants Programme UNDP, recently hosted its 4th Country Conference under the theme “Visioning Sustainable Futures - Confronting the Threats of Climate Change and Climate Variability” which provided a platform to share existing
UN News - COVID-19 cases globally are on track to rise for a fourth consecutive week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported. After six weeks of decline in January and February, cases are now increasing in most regions of the world. Meanwhile, deaths are falling, though
CTO News - Across the Caribbean, the impact of COVID-19 on the travel and tourism industry has been very apparent. The impact was particularly evident during the period of April to about mid -June when there was literally no activity in some of our destinations. This
UN News - The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, highlighted the risks of separating newborns from mothers, with new research showing that up to 125,000 lives could be saved by keeping them together to ensure skin-to-skin contact. In many countries, if COVID-19 infections are confirmed or suspected,
UN News - Health officials from the UN and the European Union will meet this week on the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after several more countries suspended its use, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists
