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Three Caricom countries registered deaths from the coronavirus over the last 24 hours as regional countries continue to urge citizens to follow the health protocols and guidelines in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
BRITISH TRINIDADIAN filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon is a prominent advocate for the Windrush generation. The co-founder...
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PROTOCOLS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO LESSEN INCIDENCES OF CASES.
MIAMI (May 27, 2020) – Caribbean food and beverage industry aficionados have been raising their glasses every Friday evening to toast the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s (CHTA) new “Limin’ wid Taste” expositions by some of the region’s leading mixologists.
Each Friday, CHTA’s Taste of the Caribbean judges unite to bring the hospitality industry and Caribbean enthusiasts together in a celebration of Caribbean flavors, creativity, showmanship, and passion.
The six-week series, which began earlier this month, is a virtual addition to the famed annual Taste of the Caribbean combined culinary competition, food and beverage educational exchange, and Caribbean cultural showcase, which the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic derailed this year.
“We’re very pleased with the reach of our Friday limin’ sessions along with the exchange between the panelists and the audience as it highlights Taste of the Caribbean’s role as a facilitator of professional development for the food and beverage community,” said Vanessa Ledesma, Chief Operations Officer of CHTA, who promised the association will carry on serving informative and educational tourism sessions for the industry.
On Friday, May 29, Caribbean Bartender of the Year Jurnick Merced of Curaçao will explore “Culinary Tourism”; on Friday, June 5, Shana Rajahram, the 2018 Hall of Famer from Trinidad and Tobago, will examine “The Role of Women in Mixology”; while Ira Claxton of the U.S. Virgin Islands will focus on “Developing your brand” to close out the series on June 12.
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) announced today that it issued 61 fixed penalty tickets for failure to wear a face mask in the 12 hours from 6:00 pm on Sunday to 6:00 am (local time) on Monday.
Bath was born on November 4, 1942 in Harlem, New York to Rupert Bath, a Trinidadian immigrant and the first black motorman in the New York City subway system, and Gladys Rupert, a domestic worker.
Barbados Tridents’ skipper Jason Holder is wary that the bench strength of his side will be tested more in the 2020 edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).
The article Bench strength to be tested- Holder appeared first on Stabroek News.
COVID-19 patients in Chicago area hospitals have more than doubled in last 30 days By Eric Horng, Leah Hope and Jesse Kirsch and ABC7 Chicago Digital Team Illinois officials announced a record 9,935 new COVID-19 cases and 97 additional deaths Thursday. The death toll in Illinois has now crossed 10,000, with a total of 10,030 […]
(Trinidad Express) Nationals currently stranded in the United Kingdom have written to National Security Minister, Stuart Young, requesting exemptions to be repatriated later this month.
The article 'Stuart is fooling, brainwashing citizens' says stranded Trinidad nationals appeared first on Stabroek News.
Hearst Magazines has officially named Harper’s BAZAAR‘s first Black editor in chief in the publication’s 153-year-old history.
Beginning July 6, Samira Nasr will be overseeing content strategy and development across the brand’s print and digital platforms in her new role as the U.S. edition of Harper’s BAZAAR, editor in chief.
Nasr will report to Hearst Magazines Chief Content Officer Kate Lewis.
Nasr was most recently executive fashion director at Vanity Fair, where she managed and directed the magazine’s fashion department and all fashion content, including styling iconic covers such as the 25th annual Hollywood issue, the spring style issue featuring cover star Lupita Nyong’o.
Unlike her predecessor, who only oversaw its print version, Nasr will run the brand’s website and magazine.
“My lens by nature is colorful, and so it is important to me to begin a new chapter in Bazaar’s history by shining a light on all individuals who I believe are the inspiring voices of our time,” Nasr said in a taped announcement of her new role, in which she both acknowledged her own intersectionality and expressed gratitude for those leading the current protest movement, saying “I see you, I thank you, and I hope we can join forces to amplify the message of equality because black lives matter.”
STATE minister for health and wellness Juliet Cuthbert Flynn says Jamaica is faced with a ballooning threat in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which has taken on new dimensions with the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Six defeated candidates in Monday's general election have filed requests for a recount of the votes cast further delaying the official announcement of the elections by the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC).On Monday night, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said that his ruling People's National Movement (PNM) had been returned to office, winning 22 of the 41 seats in the Parliament.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has summoned Venezuela’s Ambassador to T&T, Carlos Amador Perez Silva, to a meeting to discuss recent developments concerning both countries - and Trinidad and Tobago’s position.
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Ethiopia can jail people for up to two years if they deliberately violate restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, the attorney general's office said.
Twenty-seven new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday and there were 16 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
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The country’s second wave of COVID-19 infections has seen cases of the respiratory disease spike by as much as 10 000 in a single day
As of November 11, 2020 at 11:30 AM(according to Alabama Political Reporter)Alabama had 208,637 confirmed cases of coronavirus,(10,860 more than last week) with 3,201 deaths (195 more than last week)Greene County had 362 confirmed cases,(8 more cases than last week),with 17 deathsSumter Co. had 514 cases with 21 deathsHale Co. had 843 cases with 30 […]
Emerging as the Caribbean winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has stunned celebrated Jamaican author and theatre director Brian Heap, who initially planned to use the competition as a spark to complete a work he had been fiddling with for five years.
Heap’s winning piece, Mafootoo, documents the encounters of a Jamaican woman who migrated to London with her husband in the 1960s.
So the story is largely about that Windrush generation in England and the kind of situation that they find themselves in old age,” said Heap, who grew up in England.
Heap went up against fellow Jamaican Sharma Taylor and Brandon McIvor from Trinidad and Tobago to secure the Caribbean prize.
But Heap, who has worked in drama and education in Jamaica for more than 40 years, is not worried.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb.12, CMC – Two regional economists have advised Caribbean countries to join forces to buy about 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for the entire region, or the pandemic will continue to devastate lives and...
It would appear that Guyana is not the only CARICOM country where the costs associated with repairing police vehicles damaged and disabled on account of accidents - many of which result from reckless driving or mechanical defects due to drivers’ road-handling skills - continue to impose a considerable strain on the public purse.
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[Radio Dabanga] El Mogeines -- The death toll from the clashes in the White Nile state has risen. The clashes that erupted on Sunday between local residents and South Sudanese militiamen in the border area of El Mogeines have now left 17 dead and more than 20 injured.
This week, the Georgia Department of Public Health showed a total of 376,054 confirmed COVID-19 cases for the entire state as of Tuesday afternoon, including 8,264 deaths and 32,631 hospitalizations. On Tuesday, 2,012 newly confirmed cases were reported as well as 43 deaths. Locally, according to the B. Lamar Murray Public Health Center, Burke County has reached a total of […]
There was never a dull moment with Trinidadian Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, who came to the world’s attention as the Black Eagle.
Julian is regarded as either the first black man to get his pilot’s license or one of the earliest and as a supporter of Marcus Garvey and a showman, he flew his plane over rallies for Garvey, performing aerial stunts.
He would make one more jump that year before teaming up with aviator Clarence Chamberlin who, in addition to teaching him how to truly handle an airplane, flew him up above Harlem where Julian parachuted several times.
In 1931, Julian became the first person of African descent to fly coast to coast in the United States.
Julian, the aviator, military commander, marketer, spy, showman and cultural icon died quietly at the Veterans’ Hospital in the Bronx, New York, on February 19, 1983.
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HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh on Monday rejected claims by the Opposition UNC that there is a shortage of oxygen supplies at public health facilities.
Speaking in the House of Representatives, Deyalsingh said, \"I can say categorically that those reports are patently untrue.\"
At the Point Fortin Hospital, Deyalsingh said, \"We have five 220-cubic-foot cylinders that produce 220 standard cubic feet (scf) per hour.
\"At the Arima Hospital, we have one massive 220..2,220-cubic-foot cylinder that produces oxygen every 90 minutes.\"
He said Tobago is producing its own oxygen at the Scarborough Hospital and the Roxborough Hospital. Deyalsingh explained that Massy Gas Products (Trinidad) Ltd normally supplies three million scf to the public health system.
\"For the month of April, they did do that.\"
At that time, Deyalsingh said he asked the company to go up to a 50 per cent reserve capacity.
For the first three weeks of this month, Deyalsingh said, \"We have consumed over 25 per cent more oxygen than we did in April. We will consume, at the end of May, roughly $4.2 million worth of oxygen.\"
He reiterated,\"There is absolutely no oxygen shortage in any of the public health care facilities throughout TT.\"
Deyalsingh also said the only covid19 variants that have been detected in Trinidad and Tobago are the UK and Brazilian variants, as determined by the analysis of 504 samples by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (Carpha) and UWI since last December.
He added that Carpha and UWI \"are also expanding to try to some surveillance testing across the population.
\"We have put the UWI in touch with Public Health England (England's executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care) to boost up their capacity to do more testing for variants.\"
He rejected UNC's claims later in the sitting about a spike in yellow fever. Deyalsingh said it is public knowledge that there has been no case of yellow fever in humans in TT since 1979.
He explained routine yellow fever vaccination is done in children between the ages of one and two, and the average uptake is 95 per cent annually. For the first quarter of this year, Deyalsingh said 3,533 yellow fever vaccines were administered \"for a quarterly target population of 3,711.\"
In February, he continued, there were isolated cases of yellow fever \"being reported in the counties of St Andrew, St David and Moruga/Mayaro in the local monkey population, and not in the human population.\"
Deyalsingh said his ministry's insect vector control division took measures to deal with this matter to ensure the safety of animals and reduce the risk of transmission. He added there is no evidence of transmission of yellow fever from rural to urban areas.
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Two more deaths as a result of COVID-19 were yesterday recorded even as ministry officials await to confirm them.
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(Trinidad Express) SCRAP the exams and pay pupils’ query fees.
These were among the calls of parents and pupils who protested outside the Red House which houses the Parliament in Port of Spain yesterday to show their dissatisfaction with the grades of the 2020 CSEC and CAPE exams given by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) .
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Regional carrier Caribbean Airlines has announced that it will extend layoffs for an additional three months.The period is now set to end on April 15, 2021. The original date was January 15, 2021.
People's National Party (PNP) deputy general secretary Basil Waite is now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University Hospital of the West Indies after developing complications from COVID-19.\tWaite, who had been in home isolation, was...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec. 6, CMC -Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that supermarkets and food supply outlets will be allowed to open on a 24-hour basis starting December 10 until January 3.\tRowley, who made the...
