-
With a triple-threat virus sweeping across the country, pharmaceutical companies have launched their own clinical trials on COVID vaccines in young adults and the possible impact of heart conditions. The senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Dr. Jeffrey Singer, joined The National Desk Friday to talk more about this. Both Pfizer and Moderna are conducting clinical trials to determine if…
-
ECCB’s Green Initiative Helps Confront Climate Change The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has embarked on a Green Finance Initiative, which is geared toward encouraging projects and investments that help the countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union become more climate resilient to withstand the shocks of climate change and natural disasters. Speaking on this…
-
Members of the Commonwealth—among them various Caribbean countries—must intensify joint efforts to guarantee agricultural resilience and food security for their people. This was the view of experts from this community of nations, who were meeting at the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas, the pavilion that the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)…
-
Mr. President, I have the honor to deliver these remarks on behalf of the 39 members of the Alliance of Small Island States in line with the statement delivered by the Group of 77 and China. AOSIS thanks the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt for their exceptional hospitality as host of COP27 in Sharm el…
-
The 1,200 indigenous Guna people on the island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama can’t hang on much longer. They’re moving next year to the mainland because their land is being inundated by the rising Caribbean Sea amid climate change. They’ll become the first residents of Latin America to be moved by the government because their island — home to a…
-
A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in people with a treatment-resistant form of the disease, a new study found. The randomized, double-blind clinical trial, which authors called “the largest of its kind,” compared results of a 25-milligram dose to a 10-milligram and 1-milligram dose…
-
American Airlines Is Eliminating International First Class American Airlines is ditching its first class seat offering on long-haul flights because customers have stopped booking seats in the premium cabin. “First class will not exist on the 777, or for that matter at American Airlines, for the simple reason that our customers aren’t buying it,” American…
-
One in 10 people over the age of 40 in the UK are now living with Type 2 diabetes, which is a condtion that causes too much sugar in your blood. However, there is one common vegetable that can lower blood sugar levels by 50 per cent – and could see “potential use” in treating patients with diabetes.…
-
Brazilian Dr Barbosa da Silva Jr is the new Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Dr Barbosa, who will begin his five-year term on February 1, 2023, was elected today by PAHO Member States during the 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference in Washington. The new Director replaces Dr. Carissa F. Etienne of Dominica,…
-
Cloudflare launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27th, 2010. Every year since then, during the last week of September, we celebrate Cloudflare’s birthday by announcing innovative products that further our mission of helping build a better Internet. 2022 marks Cloudflare’s 12th birthday, and each day this week, we will announce new products and…