The Jamaican government will roll out a Conditional Cash Transfer for the Vaccinated (CCTV) programme, to benefit more than 100,000 Jamaicans, who will each receive J$10,000 (KY$56).
The government of Antigua and Barbuda is challenging the linking of a COVID-19 variant to the island by Public Health England (PHE).
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St Lucia has added the late Gordon “Butch” Stewart as a posthumous recipient of the country's third highest honour, the St Lucia Cross, despite the entrepreneur being Jamaican.
Dominica has commissioned two new health centres that will cost almost US$2 million through funding by the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Programme. Twelve health centres are to be constructed. These projects herald in a new era for the Nature Isle.
Jamaican Maroons have a new leader in Richard Currie who has promised to update the island’s proud and historic community.
Guyana’s national assembly passed the largest budget in its history in anticipation of its potential huge oil revenues at some G$383 billion (KY$1.50bn) last Thursday.
Barbados is one of the Caribbean’s leading covid vaccine distributors thanks to the donation of 100,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India. The Barbados population is 280,000.
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Faced with rising COVID-19 cases and struggling with a stagnating economy, Cuba is placing high hopes on rolling out its own vaccines to stabilise a worsening national crisis.