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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 […]
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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.
Sandals Foundation has delivered 28 tablets to the Ocho Rios Primary School in St Ann to serve grade six students, who are just above the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education programme threshold, but whose needs were assessed and...
[Africa In Fact] Abuja Declaration: broken promises
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, CMC – West Indies assistant coach, Roddy Estwick, said the Caribbean side had been forced to have “honest and open discussions” in the wake of their chastening innings defeat to New Zealand last weekend in Hamilton.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Sydney was isolated from the rest of Australia on Sunday after all of the country’s states and territories imposed travel restrictions on its residents as a coronavirus cluster in the city grew to around 70. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) sent a stern ‘do not come to us’ message to Sydney, the country’s most populous city of more than five million people, warning its residents they would be quarantined for 14 days if they arrived.. “If you are not an ACT resident and have been in greater Sydney…our message is simple: do not travel to the ACT,” the ACT health department said. The states of Victoria and Queensland, and the Northern Territory, banned people arriving from Sydney as of Monday. Queensland police will reintroduce road checkpoints at the New South Wales (NSW) state border to help enforce the new declaration of greater Sydney as a COVID-19 hotspot. South Australia state imposed a 14-day quarantine for Sydney arrivals on Sunday and banned travellers from affected suburbs. The island state of Tasmania took similar steps on Saturday. Western Australia state imposed a hard border closure. Travellers from elsewhere in NSW, where Sydney is the state capital, will require documents showing they are not coming from the affected Sydney suburbs if they wish to cross state borders. About a quarter of a million people in Sydney’s northern beach suburbs where the outbreak has occurred have been put into a strict lockdown until Christmas Eve. “If we can lockdown here and get rid of it, fantastic and everyone else can be free,” Rachel Buxcon, a retired northern beaches resident said. “But if it extends, then we’re all in it together.” CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY CHAOS On Sunday, NSW state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said public gathering across the rest of Sydney will be limited, with household gatherings capped at 10 participants and hospitality venues at 300, among other restrictions. “We must take this action now to ensure we keep on top of this outbreak,” said Berejiklian. She also urged people in the greater Sydney area to wear masks in public, although it was not mandatory. “If you’re going grocery shopping anywhere in NSW, please wear a mask, if you’re going to a place of worship in NSW, please wear a mask … and for goodness sake, do not get on public transport unless you’re wearing a mask,” she said. Until this week, Australia had gone more than two weeks without any local transmission and had lifted most restrictions ahead of Christmas. The Sydney outbreak and border restrictions have thrown Christmas holiday travel plans into chaos. The annual Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race starting Boxing Day Dec. 26 has been cancelled for the first time in its 76 year history as crews and their families would have to quarantine on arrival in Tasmania. Hotels and holiday rentals in NSW have been swamped with mass Christmas cancellations and restaurants have seen the number of patrons drop significantly, local media reported. “An important reminder as we come into the Christmas holiday season is that the virus has not
[Shabelle] Somalia and the international partners have resolved to continue supporting security transition involving Mogadishu taking over lead responsibility for the country's security from African Union peacekeeping forces.
[Cameroon Tribune] 24-year-old Kenyan-born Kibiwott Kandie has broken the world record in the half marathon, clocking 57:32 at the Valencia Trinidad Alfonso EDP Half Marathon on Sunday December 6, 2020. The next three finishers, Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda (57:37), Kenya's Rhonex Kipruto (57:49) and Alexander Mutiso (57:59), all dipped under the previous record. Kandie finished second at the World Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland, in October, knocked 29 seconds from the previous record of 58:01 set by Geoffrey Kamwo
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.
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[AI London] The UN Security Council must extend the mandate of the peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) by at least six months in light of failure by government security forces to protect civilians in recent months, said Amnesty International, with weeks left to the end of the mission's mandate.
[African Arguments] In March 2020, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed made an unthinkable announcement: national elections planned for August were postponed until 2021. At least. The country's fledgling democratic infrastructure couldn't safely handle the ballot amid Covid-19 restrictions. The vote would have to wait - it was in everyone's best interest.
[Premium Times] To bypass the provisions of the WHO-FCTC, the tobacco industry established a public health foundation.
“Children’s education becomes secondary to the basic needs of a home and family. The traditional in-person school has been, for many children, a respite from home life, family problems, and dysfunction. Without school, education has fallen off the radar in homes where survival is first, and education is a much lower rung during COVID times.”
—Dr. Karen Aronian of Aronian Education Design LLC
Continue reading The Challenges Black America Face with Distant and Virtual Learning During COVID-19 at The New Journal and Guide.
Of the two choices, I'd bet on Joe Biden giving in to the Hydroxy Effect.
[SNA] Djibouti -- Prime Minister Dr. Abdalla Hamdouk, the chairperson of the current session of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) organization, received at his residence in Djibouti today Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed.
… proliferation of either Caribbean- or African-American doctors in the region. Most … . It is believed that more Black Americans would be willing to take …
Dear Editor,
It is no secret that Guyana has long been the whipping boy of the Caribbean, largely due to its depressed economic status; engendered by inept political leadership, global economic crises, mismanagement of the economy and graft.
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[Monitor] Uganda can never degenerate to the level of being protected by the United Nations peace missions because the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has built a strong army, President Museveni has said.
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As the Polish government plays a game of chicken with the European Union over its next long-term budget, some Poles are voicing fears that a drawn-out conflict could put their country on a path toward an eventual departure from the bloc, or 'Polexit.' Poland's conservative government, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice party, denies that it has ever wanted to leave the 27-member bloc, and popular support for EU membership runs extremely high. But critics fear the combative tone of Polish leaders — who have recently compared the EU to […]
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Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris will present the 2020-21 national budget on December 15.
When Shannon Gabriel takes to the field tonight in the second Test between West Indies and New Zealand he will become the 35th West Indian to play a half century of Test matches.
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[Algerie Presse Service] Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad said Sunday that Algeria noted \"with great concerns\" that significant funds are still being transferred to terrorist groups as ransoms for the liberation of hostages, a scourge that undermines counterterrorism efforts.
Many of us ought to be thanking our lucky stars for our teachers, leaders and parents, thanking them for endowing us with values that have made us critical thinkers and problem solvers. They branded us with a spirit and method to challenge the world as it is, not merely as it ought to be. Because of their pedagogy, we are not building prisons for ourselves and future generations.
