Caribbean News Events iBusiness iCommunity iLocal News ISports iTech iWorld News News Publisher's Choice Sports Fixtures Sports World
2020 Scotiabank Concacaf League Matchday Update
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 As part of Concacaf’s protocols to resume the 2020 Scotiabank Concacaf League (SCL), extensive Covid-19 testing is carried out on each club’s players and traveling staff, and all match officials, prior to each match. CD Marathon…
Caribbean News Events front pg story iBusiness iCommunity iHealth iHome iLocal News iScience iTech iTravel iWorld News News
Cayman: COVID-19 Testing Update 8 December 2020 – ONE NEW Positive
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr. John Lee, reports that 272 COVID-19 tests have been carried out since this was last reported on Monday, 7 December 2020. One was positive. The individual is an asymptomatic traveller who returned a positive test…
Caribbean News Events iCommunity iHealth iKids iLocal News ISports iTech iTeenz iWorld News News Publisher's Choice Sports World
Gazprom International Children’s Social Programme Football for Friendship sets a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title
Over 1000 young football players from over 100 countries participated in the largest online football event in history. The new world record was recorded live during a master class by world football legend Roberto Carlos, Global Ambassador of Gazprom International…
Caribbean News Events iBusiness iCommunity iEntertainment iFinance iHealth iKids iLocal News iScience ISports iTech iTravel iWorld News News Publisher's Choice
Children’s sports to defeat pandemic: 2020 Football for Friendship Forum presents most successful projects to support children’s football
Children’s sports to defeat pandemic: 2020 Football for Friendship Forum presents most successful projects to support children’s football Over 25 successful projects to adapt children’s football to the 2020 pandemic were presented during the Eighth International Forum, which was held…
PAHO and ECLAC seek to improve the supply of medical products during emergencies in Latin America and the Caribbean
They call for a dialogue between health, science, technology, and industry to promote policies that increase access to these products and strengthen technological development and regional production, according to health needs Washington, DC/Santiago, Chile, 7 December 2020 – With the aim…
PAHO laments the death of former Uruguayan president who fought the tobacco industry
Dr. Tabaré Vazquez was named an Americas Public Health Hero Washington, DC, December 6, 2020 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) marks with great sadness the passing of former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez, who was distinguished in 2018 as a…
New CARICOM-EU project will tackle climate change and its health impacts in the Caribbean
PAHO partners in first-of-its-kind initiative involving government, civil society, and international organizations Bridgetown, Barbados, December 2, 2020 (PAHO) – International, regional, and government leaders announced the launch of a broad-based project to support actions to mitigate climate change and its serious…
New United Nations report reveals the inequality in the geographical distribution of malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean
FAO, IFAD, PAHO/WHO, UNICEF and the WFP call for the targeting of new policies and investments in the lagging territories of Latin America and the Caribbean. December 2, 2020, Santiago de Chile – A new United Nations report shows the territorial inequality of malnutrition…
Countries urged to face challenge of better access to health for populations of African descent in COVID-19 pandemic
Washington, D.C., December 2, 2020 (PAHO)—The COVID-19 pandemic “disproportionally affects the most vulnerable – especially our populations of African descent” and PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienne today urged health authorities to “face this pressing challenge.” In a press briefing, Etienne said,…
Caribbean News iBusiness iCommunity iHealth iLocal News iScience iTech iTravel iWorld News Manager's Choice News
AIDS-related deaths and HIV infections have declined more than 30% in the Caribbean in the last decade
But COVID-19 disruptions to health services threaten progress. PAHO and UNAIDS Launch Campaign to Promote HIV Self-Testing Washington D.C. November 30 (PAHO) – Annual deaths from AIDS-related illnesses declined by 37% from 2010 through 2019 in Caribbean countries while new yearly…
