KINGSTON, Jamaica – Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the government will continue its partnership with Cuba, as it relates to the participation of the Cuban medical mission.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is urging countries to review contingency plans and activate preventive measures to prepare health systems for potential hurricanes, storms, floods, and other extreme weather events during the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season that ends on November 30.

HAVANA, Cuba – Cuba has been elected a member of the World Health Assembly General Committee, a body made up of 17 nations taking decision on the performance of the institution.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health organization (PAHO) says while new data suggests progress in voluntary blood donation across Latin America and the Caribbean, key challenges however remain in achieving 100 percent voluntary donations.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana is seeking assistance from the European Union towards further developing its healthcare and pharmaceuticals as the EU’s Health and Pharma Investment Mission ends a three-day visit later on Wednesday.

GENEVA – The Pan American health Organization (PAHO), Tuesday signed a Letter of Intent to boost cooperation in organ, tissue, and cell donation and transplantation as well as to expand equitable access to these procedures in Latin America and the Caribbean.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Irfaan Ali says the opening of the new multi-million Diamond Regional Hospital, will provide health care services for more than 40,000 people along the East Bank corridor.

ST.  GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Grenada government says it is seeking to raise US$100 million in philanthropic capital grants for the construction of a new hospital.

GENEVA – Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO), including the Caribbean, Tuesday formally adopted by consensus the world’s first Pandemic Agreement.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A US-based medical aid organization is calling on the Donald Trump administration to reconsider a new travel ban that threatens to block Haitian children with critical heart conditions from accessing urgent care abroad.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued a new Rapid Risk Assessment (RRA) on yellow fever in the Americas, including the Caribbean,  which it said shows that the risk to public health remains high due to continued human cases in endemic countries of the region.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Amid confirmation of the first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Brazil, Jamaica’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining is intensifying its efforts to keep the virus at bay. The ministry, through its Veterinary Services Division (VSD), has adopted a strict prevention strategy to protect the local poultry industry from the highly contagious Avian Influenza virus.