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Five years after a devastating earthquake killed more than 100,000 people in Haiti, uprooted many more and prompted a massive international relief effort that continues to this day, is the Caribbean nation better prepared for disaster?…
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(Reuters) - Developing and bringing to market effective Ebola vaccines require extreme measures and unprecedented international cooperation, global health experts said on Monday. In an interim report on a roadmap for vaccines against the…
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The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is warning the region to “move expeditiously” towards building resilience amid predictions the Caribbean could be hit with an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or…
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KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, (IPS) – For decades, the fertile slopes of La Soufriere volcano, which occupies the northern third of this 344-kilometre-square island, has produced illegally grown marijuana that fuels the local underground…
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