The Caribbean region is also seeing a rise in infections and deaths: in Jamaica cases rose by 49 per cent and deaths increased by 70 per cent, while steep rises are being reported in in Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
(United Nations News) During Wednesday’s World Health Organization…
Read More...
Delta Variant Confirmed in Jamaica
(Jamaica Information Service) The Ministry of Health and Wellness has confirmed the presence of the highly…
CDEMA to deploy COST members to Haiti
(Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency Press Release) The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency…
Delta Variant confirmed in St. Kitts and Nevis
(St. Kitts and Nevis Information Service Press Release): A more easily transmissible variant of the SARS-CoV-2…
Banana Exports: The demise of green gold
I’m a strong man, a proud man, an I’m free …
I will live and die a banana man.
(Song of the Banana Man by…
Suriname President says CARICOM must do all it can to assist Haiti
His Excellency Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of Suriname has stated that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)…
CARICOM Chair, Secretary-General thank Amb. LaRocque for his contribution to…
Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), The Hon. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, and…
Book on Amb. Lucille Mathurin Mair Presented to Jamaica Foreign Affairs Minister
Dr. Lucille Mathurin Mair received the CARICOM Triennial Award for Women in 1996
(Jamaica Information Service…
Millions affected by climate change and extreme weather in Latin America and…
(United Nations News) Climate-related and geophysical events resulted in the loss of 312,000 lives and directly…
UN chief urges support for Haiti to avert ‘humanitarian disaster’
(United Nations News) UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged countries to step up support to Haiti…