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Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne said today that COVID-19 has severely impacted the mental and physical health of children and...
Ministers of Health from across the Americas to address the COVID-19 pandemic and other...
Ministers of Health and other high-level authorities of the countries and territories of the Americas will participate in the 59th Directing Council of the...
CARICOM Foreign Ministers meet ahead of UN General Assembly
he CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) held its traditional Special Meeting on Wednesday, 15 September 2021 in preparation for the High-Level...
Victory for Bahamas opposition PLP as PM Minnis Concedes
In a concession speech released by the FNM, outgoing Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has thanked Bahamians for the last four years:
Tonight I spoke...
Trinidad Investigated Nicki Minaj’s Covid Vaccine Story — And Says It’s A ‘False Claim’
Health officials in Trinidad and Tobago said Wednesday they’ve looked into rapper Nicki Minaj’s unsubstantiated and widely criticized story about a Covid-19 vaccine rendering...
Children and adolescents deeply impacted by COVID-19 pandemic, PAHO Director says
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne said today that COVID-19 has severely impacted the mental and physical health of children and...
JAMAICA: Holness asks minister to resign after social gathering on ‘no movement day’
Jamaica Observer: Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries Floyd Green seems set to resign from the Andrew Holness Cabinet following public backlash after a video...
Charge of wounding against woman accused of striking SVG PM withdrawn
The prosecution on Wednesday withdrew the wounding charge against Annamay Lewis, the woman who was accused of striking Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves in...
JAMAICA: ‘Passing through the valley of the shadow of death’
Emotional and painful. That was how 21-year-old Sheriffa Cousins described her experience while receiving medical treatment for a broken toe at the University Hospital...
Hospital worker dies on the job in Barbados
A health-care worker attached to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados died suddenly this morning, the hospital said.
The victim has been identified as Ruben...
Covid vaccines hold up against severe Delta: US data
Fully vaccinated people were 11 times less likely to die of COVID-19 and 10 times less likely to be hospitalized since highly contagious Delta...
Suicide prevention must be prioritized after 18 months of COVID-19 pandemic, says PAHO
In the framework of World Suicide Prevention Day, which takes place on September 10 each year, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warns that the...
Biden to require all federal workers be vaccinated with no testing option: report
President Biden will mandate that federal workers get vaccinated without the option of regular testing instead when he gives a speech Thursday afternoon outlining...