Autopsies ordered on bodies found on vessel

Autopsies ordered on bodies found on vessel

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago  — A postmortem will be conducted to determine how at least 15 people, whose bodies were found in a vessel off the coast of Pembroke last weekend, died. Deputy Police Commissioner, McDonald Jacob, speaking on the state-owned Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT), on Tuesday said that the vessel may have originated from Africa. […]

African Union to share vaccines with CARICOM

African Union to share vaccines with CARICOM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The African Union has allocated 1.5 million doses  of the US manufactured Johnson & Johnson vaccines to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana’s Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony announced here on Monday. Regional countries have in the past complained of their inability to secure vaccines from the producing countries because those countries have […]

Thousands get their jabs at the Jamaican Canadian  Centre  

Thousands get their jabs at the Jamaican Canadian  Centre   

It was vaccination time down at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto last weekend. The Black Community Vaccine Initiative Team hosted  a Pop-up Clinic at which more than 2,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered. The clinic was open to all members of the Black, African, and Caribbean communities,18 years and over, regardless of […]

Cuba reiterates interest to strengthen cooperation with European Union

Cuba reiterates interest to strengthen cooperation  with European Union

HAVANA, Cuba  — The Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, has reiterated his country’s interest in strengthening cooperation with the countries of the European Union in areas such as trade, energy, transport, tourism, iron and steel industry, mining, health, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. During a recent speech at the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council Meeting, the Cuban […]

Defeating the new enemy

Defeating the new enemy

EDITORIAL Defeating the new enemy  A new enemy. That’s how Ontario Premier Doug Ford describes the COVID-19 variants which are “spreading rapidly ” as we enter the third wave of the current pandemic. Addressing a recent virtual town hall meeting, Dr. Upton Allen, a professor of paediatrics at the University of Toronto, noted that “one […]

A new US initiative for the Caribbean is needed

A new US initiative for the Caribbean is needed

A new US initiative for the Caribbean is needed By David Jessop When the economies of the Caribbean and Central America finally exit the pandemic, most will be in crisis. As a recent IMF review of The Bahamas put it, recovery to pre-pandemic levels ‘will likely take years’ and the ‘downside risks loom large’. The […]

Racialized adults on revised federal COVID-19 vaccination priority list

Racialized adults on revised federal COVID-19 vaccination priority list

OTTAWA — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has updated its guidance on vaccination priorities to include adults from racialized communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and all essential workers, in the second stage of the vaccination campaign. The second stage is expected to start this spring after provinces get COVID-19 vaccines into the […]

Stay healthy and safe and take the vaccine

Stay healthy and safe and take the vaccine

EDITORIAL Stay healthy and safe and take the vaccine So the mighty COVID-19 has kept the pre-lenten carnival  revellers off the streets of Trinidad this year. The spectacular Trinidad carnival after which the Toronto  mas’ extravaganza is modelled, would have been held this week but alas the unrelenting coronavirus did not allow it. And in […]

Experts addresss concerns of Black community over COVID-19 vaccines at town hall meeting

Experts  addresss concerns of Black community over COVID-19 vaccines at town hall meeting

By Lincoln DePradine Normally, in the pre-Coronavirus pandemic era, Dr Onye Nnorom would have been returning to Toronto after participating in the annual carnival celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago. The family physician, who is the daughter of Trinidadian and Nigerian parents, admits that she missed not being able to attend Trinidad’s 2021 carnival that was […]

Jamaica running low on marijuana

Jamaica running low on marijuana

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Triston Thompson, chief opportunity explorer for Tacaya, a consulting and brokerage firm for Jamaica’s nascent legal cannabis industry, calls the latest shortage of marijuana in  the country  “a cultural embarrassment”. The government’s Cannabis Licensing Authority — which has authorized 29 cultivators and issued 73 licenses for transportation, retail, processing and other activities […]