OECS Marks 40th Anniversary
(Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Press Release) This year marks four decades of advancing regional integration in the Eastern Caribbean...
Jamaica piloting new Central Bank Digital Currency in 2021 – CARICOM Business
Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says that the Bank of Jamaica’s new Central Bank Digital...
CARPHA Statement on the Brazil Variant (P.1)
Given the nature of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19, variants are likely to emerge and several have emerged all...
UN launches ‘Only Together’ campaign to support global vaccine equity call
(United Nations News) The United Nations on Thursday launched a new global campaign, Only Together, aiming to advance fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines worldwide. The initiative underscores the need...
Regional Public Health Practitioners to Benefit from Clinical Management of HIV Course
Friday, 12 March 2021 (PANCAP Coordinating Unit, CARICOM Secretariat): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that...
Update from the Caribbean Public Health Agency on COVID-19 Vaccines and Variants
The Caribbean Public Health Agency is aware that some countries in the European Union have suspended their AstraZeneca vaccination campaign,...
Barbados Prime Minister Urges Compliance As Sectors Reopen
(Barbados Government Information Service)As Barbados prepares for the reopening of commercial and retail sectors from Monday, March 15, Prime Minister...
Caribbean countries seek to use climate-smart technologies to revolutionise regional agri-food systems
Canada, CARICOM and FAO join hands to help countries of the Caribbean in adapting to climate-smart agriculture digital technologies, using...
Commitment to post-pandemic ‘green’ recovery falling short, UN-backed study finds
(United Nations News) Countries have fallen short in their commitments to build back better after the COVID-19 pandemic, with just 18...
Reducing Salt in Diet Effective in Lowering Rate of Heart Disease
(Caribbean Public Health Agency Press Release) “The use of excessive sodium in our diets can lead to non-communicable diseases (NCDs)...
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