The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is receiving funding assistance from the Republic of Korea to strengthen laboratory systems and networks in the Caribbean Community (Caricom). CARPHA said that the US$656,743 grant will also assist in strengthening human resources capacities in health sectors to accurately...
Caricom health ministers will join their counterparts from the Commonwealth to discuss the lessons learned from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and recovery efforts The ministers will meet virtually from Tuesday for their three-day annual Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting (CHMM) that will be held under the theme...
The death toll from an explosion at a luxury hotel in the old quarter of Havana has risen to 40, the health ministry said Monday. It said 54 people were injured in the blast last week, including six that are still in critical condition. The death...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC) — Transportation, Works and Utilities Minister Kye M Rymer has sought to distance himself from the allegations facing Premier Andrew Fahie, who was released Wednesday on a US$500,000 bond by a United States court pending his trial on cocaine trafficking...
MIAMI, United States (AP) — The premier of the British Virgin Islands on Monday demanded his immediate release from US custody, arguing he is immune from prosecution on cocaine-smuggling charges because he is the elected, constitutional head of government of the British overseas territory. An attorney...