CARICOM Chairman, Dr Timothy Harris (left) at meeting in Costa Rica SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (CMC) — Chairman of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr Timothy Harris, says peace will continue to be elusive in Venezuela until the “contending parties are encouraged to sit down and agree”. Harris, who is also the prime minister of […]
Ebola can spread quickly and kills in up to 90 percent of cases. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and at times internal and external bleeding, and can start to occur between two and 21 days from infection, according to the World Health Organization.
By The Associated Press More than 1,000 people have died from Ebola in eastern Congo since August, the country’s health minister said on Friday, the second-worst outbreak of the disease in history behind the West African one in 2014-16 that killed more than 11,300. The toll came as hostility toward health workers continued to hamper efforts to […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Media Institute of the Caribbean on Thursday lauded journalists, as the world observed World Press Freedom Day. In a message to mark the day, the institute said that, with some exceptions, the Caribbean “remains a region that scores high on press freedom indexes”. “Jamaica and, to a lesser extent, Trinidad, […]
Council Member Rivera (photo: John McCarten/City Council) By Emma Whitford, Gotham Gazette Manhattan City Council Member Carlina Rivera is part of a growing coalition of Council members pushing for city government’s first major commitment to a seldom-utilized affordable housing model. In the face of rapid gentrification, they say, the city should invest $850,000 in Community […]