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 ‘The Big Catch-up’ is an extended effort to lift vaccination levels among children to at least pre-pandemic levels and endeavours to exceed those. Led by a broad range of national and global health partners, The Big Catch-up also aims to ensure stronger primary healthcare services for essential immunization in the future. SWITZERLAND / USA – WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with Immunization Agenda 2030 and many other global and national health […]

WASHINGTON, USA – US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), on Monday, began limited testing of a wrist-worn GPS monitoring device as part of ongoing efforts to provide additional technology in the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) suite of options. The technology demonstration will begin with a limited deployment in Denver to test feasibility in an operational setting. “ERO is committed to continuously developing and modernizing the tools and technologies to enhance how deportation officers uphold US […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the government of Jamaica last Friday officially handed over 3.1 km of rehabilitated road to the almost 200 persons living in the community of Epworth, St. Ann in Jamaica. “I must commend the people of Epworth, for your determination in seeing this project through and your commitment to maintaining the road so both current and future generations can benefit from this investment,” said Isaac Solomon, vice president, operations at the CDB, […]

ST GEORGES, Grenada –  The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) reported that the newly launched Pure Grenada Excellence Champion (PGEC) Customer Service training sessions on the sister isle of Carriacou were a resounding success: 250 participants from various sectors attended the sessions, which took place between April 3 to 6 at the Cassada Bay Resort. The Pure Grenada Excellence Champion program is a unique service excellence training initiative created to improve the quality and marketability of local service providers better enabling […]

LOUISVILLE, USA — US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Louisville Port of Entry with the help of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) intercepted more than 700 unapproved Botox and derma fillers during Operation No Tox from April 10-14. CBP officers at the Port of Louisville focused on suspect shipments of Botox imported without FDA approved license, permit, authorization, or prescription attempting entry into the United States. Officers’ primary focus was on merchandise exported from South Korea, […]

BRUSSELS, Belgium – The EU Council, today agreed to establish treaty relations with Ukraine in the framework of the Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (so called Judgments Convention). Concluded in 2019, this Hague Convention is an international treaty that commits contracting states to recognise and enforce judgments handed down in civil or commercial matters in other states party to it. “With this decision to recognise and enforce each other’s judgments […]

CHINA / CUBA – Chinese Premier Li Qiang, received the leader of the Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) Roberto Morales, and both spoke of consolidating the links of economic and financial cooperation, as reported by Prensa Latina, a partner of TV BRICS. During the meeting, the Asian dignitary reaffirmed the high importance that Beijing attaches to the development of relations with Havana and called for the strengthening of pragmatic collaboration to promote socialism and a […]

By Government of Montserrat BRADES, Montserrat – The ministry of health and social services has revealed that the recent outbreak of gastroenteritis was caused by the Norovirus. The cases of COVID-19 and the flu are also on the increase and caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus and Metapneumovirus respectively. Director of primary health care, Dr Dorothea Hazel-Blake, indicated that over the past few weeks, the ministry grappled with record numbers of cases of vomiting and diarrhea. She stated: “The Norovirus outbreak […]

SHANGHAI, China – OBiO Technology (Shanghai) Corp., Ltd. (“OBiO” or “the Company”), a leading gene and cell therapy CDMO in China, announced the launching of a new GMP manufacturing base, named OBiO Intelli-M, April 21, 2023. The new base was located in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Lin-Gang Special Area, with 29 production lines and 828,000+ square feet in area, which was one of the biggest super factories for gene therapy in the world. At the opening ceremony, OBiO showed the holistic […]