Month: January 2021

(AP)— Novavax Inc said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89 per cent effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work — though not quite as well […]

(CMC) – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says it is crucial to properly and consistently employ and increase the public’s adherence to COVID-19 control measures with the discovery and proliferation of multiple COVID-19 variants. […]

PARIS, France (AFP) — The vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to retain its effectiveness against coronavirus mutations in worrying new variants that have emerged recently in Britain and South Africa, the firms said […]

The Government of Grenada will examine the possibility of providing  additional relief support to the nation’s taxi-drivers, a category of persons particularly  hard-hit by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. At a meeting Wednesday with […]

Comedian and creative visionary Amanda Seales has been awarded by the American Foundation for The University of West Indies (AFUWI) the prestigious Caribbean Luminary Award. Known for her Grenadian roots, she joins an elite group […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro appears to be counting on yet another “miracle” to save his citizens from COVID-19, promoting a secretive solution with no published scientific evidence he claims will conquer […]

The Government of Grenada has deployed additional resources to  the sister islands to strengthen border control, in the face of a growing number of COVID 19 cases in neighbouring St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A […]

BRÜSSEL, Belgium (AFP) — It is still not known whether people vaccinated against COVID-19 can still transmit the coronavirus, the head of the EU’s medicine regulator told MEPs on Tuesday. There are also concerns about […]