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IRIE KIDS INC. COLLABORATED WITH RISE SAINT LUCIA INC. TO DONATE TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
United Way of the Coastal Empire announces Cecilia Russo Turner, President and CEO of Cecilia Russo Marketing, as the 2021 Campaign Chair. In this one-year term, Russo Turner will lead the campaign fundraising efforts to reach a multi-million-dollar fundraising goal across four southeast Georgia counties: Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty. The campaign will officially kick off on Thursday, September 9. … Continue reading \"United Way Names Cecilia Russo Turner As 2021 Campaign Chair & Announces Cabinet\"
Chicago United, a business organization that promotes multiracial leadership in business to advance parity in economic opportunity, will celebrate its 45th anniversary this year during its annual Changing Color of Leadership Conference and Bridge Awards Dinner.
McDonald’s Corp.’s president and CEO Don Thompson will receive the Bridge Award on November 19 at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave.
The dinner will also honor 45 individuals profiled in the 2013 Business Leaders of Color publication which biennially features viable candidates for Fortune 1000 companies’ boards of directors. The Business Leaders of Color publications provide a talent showcase of individuals eminently qualified to serve on corporate boards. Through their identification, Chicago United aims to accelerate the rate of change of diverse representation in corporate governance.
The 10th Annual Changing Color of Leadership Conference and Bridge Awards Dinner, presented this year by ComEd, isChicago’s premier event for networking with the most diverse group of business leaders in the city. This event offers best practices, guidance and practical tools to CEOs and senior leaders looking to transform their corporate culture.
This year’s Conference features Culture, Inclusion and Diversity, or “CID” Talks. These are a series of discussions aimed to inspire attendees to create their own “big ideas” for culture change, inclusion, and diversity in their companies. Chicago United has assembled a diverse group of transformational leaders from the boardroom to the C-suite to present thought-provoking and innovative ideas to inspire attendees.
Speakers will include John Rowe, chairman emeritus, Exelon Corporation; Elizabeth W. Reese president, Nicor Gas & senior vice president, AGL Resources; Paul Martin, corporate vice president and chief information officer, Baxter International, Inc. and;Nazneen Razi, senior vice president, chief human resources officer, Health Care Service Corporation.
The Bridge Awards Dinner will conclude the conference, and
Thirteen new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday after 239 more persons were tested for the virus and for the month of December there were 13 deaths.
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Tanu Henry | California Black Media Two elections held in the last three months have placed San Bernardino County resident Jasmin Hall in a position where she wields the most influence among a handful of African Americans serving in California water industry leadership roles. Late last year, Hall’s colleagues elected her the first African American […]
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Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says the Ministry is working to address issues with COVID-19 testing. Bisasor-McKenzie has indicated that there has been a drop in testing over the past few...
[New Zimbabwe] Illegal Covid-19 testing sites are mushrooming in the country as Zimbabweans intending to travel outside the country seek fake test papers to cross the national borders.
By Warren Jones Duval County School Board Chair - Our school buildings are on average 44-years old. Some have been around 100-years. That makes them the oldest in Florida, as well as the state’s worst [...]
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday threatened to clamp down on social media users who “cyber-bully” government officials, which critics say is meant to muzzle critics of President Emmerson Mnangagwa on social media. By RICHARD MUPONDE /MOSES MATENGA Media experts also accused the government of trying to close media space. This came as Harare’s provincial development co-ordinator Tafadzwa Muguti claimed he was being targeted on social media, while Zanu PF last week also claimed that Mnangagwa was a victim of online cyber-bullying. “The ZRP warns individuals and groups from committing crimes through cyber-bullying of government officials who will be performing their constitutional and lawful obligations in terms of service delivery to Zimbabweans,” the police said in a terse statement. They further said the cyber-bullying of government officials was perpetrated by “certain groups of suspects who know their arrest is imminent”. Police tagged Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana and Muguti in their statement on Twitter. Muguti had earlier taken to Twitter to say that he had been bullied and was being threatened for doing his job. “No amount of smearing my name with false stories will intimidate me. I was appointed to clean up the corruption and land barons. Believe me, no amount of death threats, following me from work or dishing sewer drawn corruption allegations against me will work. We are coming for you. “I am sick and tired of being diplomatic to insults and now death threats and name-smearing. You start it and I respond. At the same time, I keep doing the very job. All the same, always take advice, thank you,” Muguti ranted. Muguti was said to have been offended by a letter circulating on social media claiming that he allegedly illegally received a piece of land in Chitungwiza in July 2019, without following procedure. He denied the allegations, saying all due processes were followed. Media experts and human rights organisations reacted saying that the police should not play referee on social media by seemingly protecting government officials. Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe executive director and Media Alliance of Zimbabwe vice-chairperson Loughty Dube said: “The police have no role to be involved in issues of freedom of expression. Every citizen has a right to engage in a civil manner a government official and it is not the role of the police to referee on what people would say or who they should talk to or whether anybody should not engage with anyone. “If anyone is aggrieved, they go to the police and the police will then act whenever someone has approached them, but it is not for them to referee to say this one is not tweeting properly and so on, that is not the role of the police,” he said. Dube said citizens had a right to hold government officials and Mnangagwa accountable on any platform including social media. Zimbabwe Union Journalists secretary-general Foster Dongozi said: “When I saw the tweet, I dismissed it because I thought somebody had hacked the police Twitter handle. We do not
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. was President of Morehouse School of Medicine. Sullivan was also the Founding Dean and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine. Sullivan was Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Currently, Sullivan is Chairman of the Board at the National Health Museum.
enhancing health literacy and advancing healthy behaviors. Sullivan is also the Chairman of Sullivan Alliance to Transform America.
Sullivan was a Founder and Chairman of Medical Education for South African Blacks, Inc., a Trustee of Africare, and Director of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Sullivan served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Health Museum.
A slate of candidates for the positions of chair and vice chair has been developed and will be presented to the board for their deliberation and action.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to reopen the institution’s residential campuses in Florida and Arizona for face-to-face instruction on June 30.
With health precautions in place, Embry-Riddle will resume face-to-face instruction, in keeping with its Path Forward strategy, President P. Barry Butler announced on May 21.
“We are excited about the return of students to Embry-Riddle’s residential campuses,” said Mori Hosseini, chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is well positioned for this next step.
Key elements of Embry-Riddle’s Summer B plan include these and other precautions:
The Government Employees’ Retirement System board of trustees has tried since 1999 to motivate Virgin Islands senators to do something to save the retirement system, but, since then actions have only nibbled at solving a financial catastrophe.
[Nation] A record 11,324 patients in Kenya have recovered from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
Mumbai, India - The government of India has proposed raising the smoking age from 18 to 21, banning the sale of loose cigarettes, and doing away with designated smoking areas in public places. The proposal also includes provisions for increasing the penalty for selling tobacco products to anyone under the legal smoking age from two years' imprisonment and a fine […]
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Western Bureau: Omar Sweeney, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), has said a section of the Mt Salem Primary and Infant in St James has fallen into serious disrepair and has been condemned. The condemned building is...
Sandals Foundation has delivered 28 tablets to the Ocho Rios Primary School in St Ann to serve grade six students, who are just above the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education programme threshold, but whose needs were assessed and...
MINISTER of state in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn says Jamaicans accepting personal responsibility for protecting their own health is a major factor in overall wellness.Speaking at the opening of the Life Store Wellness Boutique on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew yesterday, the state minister said this is a necessary mindset that needs to be adopted, along with a change of lifestyles and habits.
Brooklyn Net James Harden Becomes Newest Member of Saks Board of E-Commerce
[Nairobi News] Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has asked the ministry of health to pay all outstanding medical bills for the late Dr Stephen Mogusu, who succumbed to Covid-19 comlications on Monday.
Kimberley Crews Goode is Vice President of Communications and Corporate Affairs. In this role, she is responsible for leading the development and execution of the company’s internal and external communications strategy. She is also a member of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation Board. Ms. Goode, who joined Northwestern Mutual in March 2008, has more than 20 years experience in corporate communications with several global companies in diverse industries.
She has earned numerous awards from industry organizations, including “Communicator of the Year” from the New Jersey chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
She is a member of the executive committee of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee; a member of the Board of Trustees for the Arthur W. Page Society and the Board of Directors for Action for Healthy Kids. She has also held membership in the International Public Relations Association and the International Association of Business Communicators. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
The V.I. Port Authority Board unanimously voted to approve Executive Director Carlton Dowe to enter into a long-term lease agreement with major cargo shipping companies Tropical Shipping Company, LLC and Crowley Caribbean Services.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed the detection of 36 more cases of COVID-19 from the results of 556 tests that were done.
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