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St Vincent puts Barbados on COVID ‘high risk’ travel list

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Effective Monday, January 4, 2021, travellers from Barbados will be categorised as arriving from a high risk country, and must quarantine in an approved...

Cuban doctors nominated for Nobel Prize

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A proposal to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to a contingent of Cuban doctors who specialise in disaster situations and serious epidemics was...

161 new cases of COVID-19 in Barbados

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A total of 161 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Barbados on Saturday. Health authorities told a news conference Saturday afternoon that the...

Over 5,400 Caribbean Immigrants Deported In 2020

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By NAN Staff Writer News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Over 5,400 Caribbean immigrants were deported back to the region this year, latest U.S. Immigration and...

Jamaican sent to prison for 6 months for leaving quarantine in Barbados

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Visitors and Barbadians returning home have been put on notice that they will pay a hefty price for breaching the island’s COVID-19 protocols, especially...

2020 ends with 1.7 million COVID-19 deaths

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The COVID-19 pandemic swept through every country in the Americas in 2020, infecting more than 35 million people and causing some 850,000 deaths. Globally,...

CARICOM congratulates Haiti on 217th Independence Anniversary

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The Caribbean Community CARICOM has congratulated the Government and People of the Republic Haiti on its Two Hundred and Seventeenth Anniversary of Independence, while...

Vincentians warned to stay clear of La Soufriere volcano

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(Loop)-The UWI-Seismic Research Centre has received reports of activity in St Vincent and the Grenadines that may be related to La Soufriere volcano. The Centre says it is currently monitoring the...

Grenada delays reopening of schools due to COVID-19

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Grenada’s Ministry of Education on Monday announced that schools will not be reopening on January 4  to start the second or Hilary term 2021. Acting...

Guyana to Provide Free University Education by End of 2024

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The Government of Guyana is planning to provide free education to students attending the University of Guyana, by the end of 2024. The announcement was...

US Customs nabs cocaine smuggler from Dominican Republic

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An arriving passenger at John F. Kennedy International Airport had a little more than spaghetti and meatballs in mind as U. S. Customs and...

COVID vaccine overdose puts 8 care home workers in hospital

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Germany’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign has been overshadowed by a mishap in the north where eight workers in an elderly care home received an overdose. Vorpommern-Ruegen...

Saint Lucia logs 26 new cases of COVID-19

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Over the course of the Christmas weekend between Dec. 24 and Dec. 27, a total of 314 COVID-19 tests were conducted by the Ezra...