GEORGETOWN, Guyana -President Irfaan Ali on Saturday proclaimed that the floods across Guyana have reached the stage of a national disaster and crisis.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A senior official of the United States Embassy here has welcomed the announcement by President Joe Biden that it is providing six million doses of vaccines to Latin America and the Caribbean.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government is expected to use its majority in the Parliament on Monday as it seeks a three-month extension of the state of emergency (SOE) imposed here on May 15 as part of the efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has infected to 18, 227 people and killed 341 since March last year.

GENEVA, Switzerland – A new United Nations report says the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is endangering progress made in Asia and the Pacific, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The African Union has allocated 1.5 million doses of the US manufactured Johnson & Johnson vaccines to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana’s Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony announced here on Monday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Even as some Caribbean countries relax entry protocols for travelers who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has strongly advised against going that route.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, says the coronavirus (COVID019) pandemic has provided the Caribbean governments with the opportunity to implement tax cuts for airline tickets across the region.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Dr. Irfaan Ali Friday urged Caribbean countries to move away from the consumption of poor-quality food and called on the region’s population to eat agricultural products grown in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica Monday observed its 25^th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Cuba by urging the United States to end the decades old trade and economic embargo against Havana.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – The Cayman Islands has started the genome sequencing of local COVID-19 cases making territory the first in the region, outside of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), to do so.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government has announced a two-week lockdown for Cat Island and North and Central Andros, effective 8.00 pm (local time) on Monday as the country moves to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris Friday called on the United States and other vaccine producing countries to ensure the equitable distribution of the vaccine needed to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COID-19) that has killed thousands of people in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping.