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Embassy Update on fully vaccinated travellers entering the United States
As announced by the White House on September 20, beginning in early November, all adult foreign nationals will be required to be fully vaccinated...
Ontario hospital places 140 staff on unpaid leave for failing to meet COVID vaccination...
WINDSOR, Ont. — More than 100 staff members at a Windsor, Ont., hospital are being placed on unpaid leave for not receiving their first...
Course of the pandemic in the Americas remains “highly uncertain”
In an update to its 59th Directing Council meeting of health ministers, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said today that the course of the...
Saint Lucia Records 18 Deaths, 103 New Cases
Today Tuesday September 21, 2021 the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs confirms a total of 103 new cases of COVID-19.
These cases were...
JAMAICA-Several arrested as Jamaicans stage protest against mandatory vaccination
President of the United Independent Congress Joseph Patterson was among several persons arrested this morning by the police during an anti-COVID-19 vaccination protest in...
CARICOM Foreign Ministers meet US Deputy Secretary of State – Vaccines, Climate Change among...
Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) impressed upon United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman the urgency for the delivery of the...
Biden pushing rich nations to share vaccines
President Joe Biden is set to announce that the United States is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world...
CHTA Warns That Travel Advisories Don’t Present Full Picture
While travel advisories have been placed on several Caribbean destinations due to the increase in COVID-19 cases, attributed to the highly contagious delta variant,...
Cuba reassures neighbors it’ll share vaccines
Saint Lucians and CARICOM citizens anxiously awaiting Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccines have been reassured they will not be disappointed.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel on Saturday...
Justice Thomas-Felix warns against unilateral imposition of mandatory vaccine policy
CMC- The President of the Industrial Court, Justice Deborah Thomas-Felix, Friday said mandatory vaccination policy cannot be a unilateral imposed in Trinidad and Tobago as...
CAB welcomes Dominica appointments
The Caribbean Association of Banks (CAB) Inc. has extended congratulations to two veteran bankers who have been appointed to leadership positions with a CAB...
Delta variant widespread in Barbados
Minister of Health and Wellness, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic, on Saturday announced that there was “widespread community transmission” of COVID-19, and that the country...
Factbox: Countries making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory
A sharp upturn in infections due to the Delta variant and a slowdown in vaccinations have pushed governments to make COVID-19 shots mandatory for...