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Move to stave off dengue

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbadians have been flocking to supermarkets across the island to purchase insect repellents, insecticides, mosquito coils and vaporizer mats to deal with mosquitoes.
Supermarket personnel said they had noted increased sales for all the products which either kill mosquitoes or keep them away.
This comes amidst concern about the number of dengue fever cases in Barbados. The Ministry of Health reported last week that there were 511 confirmed cases of dengue fever so far this year, compared to 169 confirmed cases for the same period in 2012.

IT’S SWINE FLU

FLU PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Two persons who died after exhibiting influenza H1N1 symptoms may possibly be among the six confirmed cases of the swine flu virus, Minister of Health Dr Fuad Khan said yesterday.
Speaking at a media conference at the Ministry of Health, Park Street, Port of Spain, Khan who called on citizens not to panic said the six cases of the H1N1 influenza A virus were confirmed in three patients from San Fernando General Hospital, one from Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and two patients from an unknown area.

Focus must be on swine flu prevention

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Following confirmation late Wednesday by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (Carpha) of six local cases of Influenza A/H1N1, better known as swine flu, the first response from Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan was that such cases were “nothing new” for T&T. The minister’s biggest concern was avoiding “overreaction and over-treatment,” which he said occurred in 2009 when swine flu cases first emerged in this country.

Government to establish fee structure for CARICOM Skills Certificate

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says it is seeking to establish a fee structure for issuing CARICOM Skills Certificates in keeping with the amendments to the CARICOM Free Movement of Skilled Persons Act, which seeks to broaden the categories of skilled nationals able to access jobs in regional countries.

‘Reinventing the CSME’

CSME’ GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Professor Norman Girvan, in an address entitled, ‘Reinventing the CSME,’ to the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO) in Barbados, last Friday, assessed the crisis in the regional economic integration process, focusing on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and proposed a possible way out.

CCJ to deliver ruling on Shanique Myrie case

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is expected to deliver a land mark ruling on Friday in the case against Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who sued the Government of Barbados.
Myrie, 25, who was granted leave by the CCJ to file the action, alleged that when she travelled to Barbados on March 14, 2011 she was discriminated against because of her nationality, subjected to a body cavity search, detained overnight in a cell and deported to Jamaica the following day.

OUR CARIBBEAN: Pitiful inaction as crisis deepens for Haitians

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Unless I missed it, I cannot recall any head of government of our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) making any reference in his/her address at the current session of the United Nations General Assembly in support of Haiti’s position that the United Nations has a “moral obligation” to offer compensation to an estimated 8 000 cholera victims linked to negligence by a contingent of the world body’s peacekeeping force in that poverty-stricken nation.

Haiti’s top lawmakers head to Dominican capital amid ruling’s uproar

(Dominican Today) Santo Domingo.- Amid the uproar unleashed by the Constitutional Court ruling on the nationality of offspring of foreigners illegally in the country, Haiti’s two leaders of Congress will visit their Dominican counterparts toady Friday.
Senate president Reinaldo Pared is slated to receive the Haitian lawmakers at 11am, although the reason for the visit by Senate President Simon Desras Dieuseul, and lower chamber counterpart Jean Tholbert Alexis wasn’t disclosed.

CARICOM concerned over plight of Haitians in Dominican Republic

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Irwin La Rocque said the 15-member regional integration movement is concerned at a recent ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic that may have an adverse impact on Haitians living in the Spanish-speaking country.
La Rocque told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that while he is seeking further information on the court ruling, anything that affects any member state of CARICOM would be of concerns to the region.

Warning for Caribbean countries

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will have to change its modus operandi and the way it thinks about integration in order to deal with a changing global environment, CARICOM Secretary General Irwin La Rocque has said.
Delivering the “Distinguished Open Lecture CARICOM Lecture Series” at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) on Thursday night, La Rocque said that the region now finds itself at another juncture in the progression of its regional integration movement.

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