8-year-old designs Cayman islands Mental Health Commission’s new logo
Eight-year-old Hope Academy student Kaydence Whitney is the winner of the Mental Health Commission’s logo competition. Kaydence was one of ten students who submitted images for the competition. As a young girl recently diagnosed with Asperger’s, she feels impassioned to…
A Caribbean lesson from Cuba
By Dennis Chung From Caribbean Journal Last month I was a member of the delegation that visited Cuba with Jamaica Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson to look at that country’s preparation for Ebola, and thus take back some lessons for…
Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone doctor dies in US
From BBC A surgeon from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the US has died, a Nebraska hospital announced. Martin Salia, who has US residency and is married to an American, arrived for treatment in the state…
Mosquito virus fear hits Britons’ Caribbean holidays
By Eleanor Harding for the Daily Mail Tourists warned of deadly disease sweeping islands as thousands return home with agonising symptoms Chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean was first reported last December Over 700,000 suspected cases have been reported in…
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Cayman Islands Governor Kilpatrick samples Edward Teach rum at Pirates Week From Loop Cayman On November 8 2014, Edward Teach Single Barrel 7 year old rum exploded onto the Cayman Rum scene and straight into the hands Governor Helen Kilpatrick…
Chikungunya preparedness: What happened?
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: A Caribbean subregional workshop introducing the new guidelines for preparedness and response for chikungunya virus was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel from May 28-30, 2012. The big question is what…
Caribbean regional vet conference held in Cayman Islands
Over 200 veterinarians, local and from abroad, attended an opening ceremony for the 28th Biennial Caribbean Veterinary Medical Association Conference on Tuesday, 4 November 2014 at the Marriott Hotel. Minister responsible for Agriculture, Hon. Kurt Tibbetts officially opened the ceremony…
In Ebola-hit SLeone, dignity in death protects the living
By ANNE CHAON, AFP From Business Insider A health worker from Sierra Leone’s Red Cross Society Burial Team 7 carries the corpse of a child in Freetown on November 12, 2014 Freetown (AFP) – Sierra Leone’s Ebola burial boys wrap…
World Health Organization mistakenly forwards email to BuzzFeed saying ‘BuzzFeed is banned’
By Brian Ries From Mashable BuzzFeed, it seems, is on the World Health Organization’s blacklist. The New York news organization found out the hard way on Wednesday when a WHO staffer mistakenly included a BuzzFeed reporter on an internal email….
The next step of the HIV/AIDS strategy
Posted by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Valerie Jarrett From Office of National AIDS Policy US Government Three years ago, President Obama announced an historic comprehensive plan to help turn the tide on HIV/AIDS in the United States: the National HIV/AIDS…
