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By Kareem Smith One of the Caribbean’s largest nonalcoholic beverage manufacturers is proposing a tiered tax system to replace the “disproportionate” and blanketed 20 per cent tax on sugar-sweetened beverages imposed at the start of the month. Director of SM Jaleel Beverages Barbados Dr. Mikaeel Mohammed, whose company reduced the sugar content in its beverages […]
The post Apply sweet tax in tiers, says manufacturer appeared first on Barbados Today.
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
As part of an ongoing sponsored series on Black financial health, we are exploring the racial wealth gap, its impact on our community, and what’s being done to address it. In today’s column, we focus our conversation on access to entrepreneurship. We welcome your ideas and questions to be covered in this series, and encourage […]
Jamaican Professor Kevin Fenton has been named on the Powerlist 2021 as the second most influential black person in Britain for his role in the fight against the novel coronavirus. The annual Powerlist honours the most powerful people of African,...
In any organisation, large or small, how quickly and efficiently departments can communicate with each other can directly impact how well that organisation performs. Already, we rely a lot on technology to operate businesses and to get work done...
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] From encouraging exercise to improving sanitation, cities are at the forefront of boosting residents' health
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met separately with Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and chairman of the Sovereign Council Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan yesterday during his visit to Sudan.
(Trinidad Express) Even if a person has been administered a Covid-19 vaccine in another country, if he or she intends to enter Trinidad and Tobago, the person will be required to show Covid-negative status.
The article Trinidad: Vaccinated people still need to prove they are Covid-negative appeared first on Stabroek News.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies Under-19s batsman, Jyd Goolie, pressed his case for a place in the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force squad for next year’s Regional Super50 with an audacious hundred in the second trial game here Friday.
The article Goolie gets selectors’ attention with rapid hundred appeared first on Stabroek News.
In the post-resurrection narrative of Luke 24:13-35, the Risen Christ, unknown to the two disciples journeying to the village of Emmaus, asks them, “What are you talking about as you walk along?” As the world and the Caribbean region grapple...
[Nation] Two days after Félix Tshisekedi's speech announcing the end of the coalition, the standoff continues in the National Assembly between, on the one hand, the office of the chamber of parliament and the deputies of Cape Town for change (CACH), and on the other hand, the supporters of President Felix Tshisekedi and those of former leader Joseph Kabila.
[Africa In Fact] Strong medicine: the COVID-19 effect
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Selectors are scheduled to announce the squad for the tour of Bangladesh early next week, Cricket West Indies CEO Johnny Grave, has confirmed.
The article Squad for Bangladesh tour to be named next week: Grave appeared first on Stabroek News.
[HRW] Washington -- The World Bank's Covid-19 support project does not adequately address the Egyptian government's arrests and intimidation of health professionals, Human Rights Watch said today.
A U.S. government advisory panel convened on Thursday to decide whether to endorse mass use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to... View Article
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By JILL LAWLESS and RAF CASERT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain's foreign minister said Thursday that negotiations on a trade deal with the European Union will reach a 'moment of finality' this weekend, with both sides assessing chances of an agreement as slim. To prepare for a possible no-deal exit on Jan. 1, the EU on Thursday proposed four contingency measures to make sure air and road traffic can continue as smoothly as possible for the next six months. It also proposes that fishermen will still have access to each others waters for up to a year, to limit […]
The post UK says EU trade talks face 'moment of finality' on weekend appeared first on Black News Channel.
Manuel Scherif Data News Weekly Contributor The newly formed New Orleans City Council Street Renaming Commission will consider 37 streets, parks, and public places named after Confederate figures and White supremacists, for future renaming. The [...]
The post City Commission Proposes 37 Street and Places for Renaming appeared first on New Orleans Data News Weekly.
I have a precious but dwindling jar of dried Guyanese salted seabob that I save to use sparingly in my cooking.
The article A fishy business appeared first on Stabroek News.
A senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised Caribbean countries ‘for doing a very good job” in containing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic even as he acknowledged that it has had a severe impact on their economies.
NEW YORK — An expert committee put people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers next in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out Sunday to hospitals, a desperately needed boost as the nation works to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. The developments occurred […]
The DA called on government to release COVID-19 vaccine plans publicly, and added that the tardiness to secure access is \"unacceptable\".
