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On Tuesday, Dec. 21st, Dallas will celebrate South Oak Cliff High School’s football team, the newly crowned District 5A Division II champions. At AT&T Stadium on Saturday, SOC defeated Liberty Hill by a score of 23-14 and claimed the UIL Class 5A Division II State Title. In doing so, they made history, becoming the first […]
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An HDC official at the site, who did not what to be named, told Newsday the HDC could not give an exact date for the finishing the repairs.
However, the spokesman said the corporation is working to do so as quickly as possible once the weather does not affect the work.
The post Residents: Complete Oasis Greens roadworks before Xmas appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
MILAN - Champions League glory has always eluded Zlatan Ibrahimovic, despite a glittering CV that has seen him play for Europe's biggest clubs for 20 remarkable years. And now, following…
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Black women have been hit excessively hard by COVID-19 and its its economic affects, including job loss and eviction. To help offset that, a new guaranteed pilot program will provide Black women in Georgia $850 per month over two years.
Pepper and Vanessa Lateefah Willaims are the perfect example of the saying “opposites attract. Pepper is all-out, full-blown diva, who will snap on you if you do anything that doesn’t jibe with his spirit, and prance around like a runway model when all is right in his world. Vanessa, on the other hand, is living, […]
Dr Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), said on Wednesday Trinidad and Tobago is one of the countries of concern in the region owing to the increase in cases of covid19.
Speaking at PAHO's weekly webinar, Etienne said: \"In the Caribbean, TT continues to experience spikes in covid19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths, as does the Cayman Islands.\"
Last week PAHO reported more than 782,655 new infections and 10,950 deaths related to covid19.
Etienne said the omicron variant has already been detected in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, the US, Mexico and Canada.
“It is a matter of time before omicron reaches the rest of the countries in the region, and we must be self-vigilant in the short term. Assessments are under way and it is important countries continue to implement the public health packages that have been shown to be effective against this virus,” she said.
Etienne said vaccines also remain a critical tool for reducing hospitalisations and deaths, as well as limiting the emergence of new variants.
PAHO reported as of Wednesday 55 per cent of people in Latin America and the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated. However, 20 countries in the region have not yet reached the 40 per cent target set for this year.
Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines continue to lag behind and will not meet the target in the coming weeks.
Etienne said this week PAHO is delivering more than 1.6 million covid19 vaccines to various countries for a total of 72 million doses delivered in the region, while also distributing 34 million seasonal flu vaccines to 33 countries.
\"We have secured more than US$ 1 billion in vaccines through the revolving fund, as well as orders for the coming year as countries continue to request additional doses,\" Etienne said.
She said in all the countries of the Americas there is still community spread and a relaxation of measures which has prevented progress towards the goal of ending covid19.
Dr Jarbas Barbosa, deputy director of PAHO, said Chile and Uruguay already have more than 80 per cent of their populations vaccinated and Brazil has made progress in recent weeks.
However, Barbosa said populations should not be neglected and that there are still many people who are in need of the third booster dose.
\"There is still a lot to do, You must be very careful so that the transmission is fully controlled,\" he said.
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California's Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Torrance Police Department on Wednesday in response to a developing scandal
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Greg Tate, a music writing and journalism titan who many consider the Godfather of Hip-Hop writing has passed away. He was 64.
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says a new study of Afro-descendant populations in 18 Latin American countries demonstrates that they live with “dramatically unequal social and economic conditions that damage health.”
Carmen Bolden Day, the mother of Jelani Day, is calling on the FBI for answers into her son's disappearance and mysterious death. The grieving mother, with the assistance of attorney Benjamin Crump, held a news conference this week with several of Day's family members present. “I need the FBI to come in and take over because these local jurisdictions have shown us that they have not made us a priority,” Bolden Day said , according to the Chicago Tribune. “They have not made Jelani a priority.\" \"I don't trust the Peru Police. I don't trust the Bloomington Police. I don't trust the LaSalle Police. I need the FBI to come in and take over.\" Carmen Bolden Day, mother of #JelaniDay , tells @chanceseales that her son's cell phone has been found on an Illinois interstate. pic.twitter.com/tiheY466UD — Newsy (@Newsy) November 12, 2021 As Blavity previously reported , Day's body was discovered on Sept. 23 after he'd been missing for almost a month. He was last seen alive on Aug. 24, and his...
The mega-millionaire sports agent and his company KLUTCH Sports Group have taken the sports world by storm.
QCity Metro published an editorial by Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) that highlights the issues addressed by the White House’s Maternal Health Day of Action Summit. In the editorial, Rep. Adams outlines how the Black Maternal Health Momnibus provisions included in the Build Back Better Act will save lives and improve outcomes across the country, as […]
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By The Haitian Times Violent clashes with armed gangs fighting for control over Martissant, in the south of Port-au-Prince, left one bus passenger shot dead and several others wounded, local […]
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The Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA) has denied changing its policy on the administering of third covid19 vaccine doses. The TRHA was responding to a Newsday report that people under 60 without comorbidities were receiving third doses at Port Mall, Scarborough.
In an interview with Newsday on Wednesday, Dr Roxanne Mitchell, acting general manager of primary care services at the Scarborough General Hospital outlined the policy for the four covid19 vaccine sites at Port Mall in Scarborough, Scarborough Health Centre, Roxborough Health Centre and Canaan Health Centre.
She said: “All persons are now eligible for the booster shot – anybody who has received the first and second doses and you are six months out from the second dose, you can receive a booster shot.”
However, she later told Newsday that she meant only eligible people would meet the criteria for a third dose.
When told that people under 60 at Port Mall were receiving third doses without being asked about comorbidities, she promised to investigate. She made it clear this was not a Tobago policy.
[caption id=\"attachment_928626\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] People visited Port Mall, Tobago, for their covid19 booster shot on Wednesday. - Jeff K. Mayers[/caption]
When Newsday visited Port Mall on Wednesday, several people were seen waiting to get their jab.
Newsday saw one person receiving a third Sinopharm dose without being asked about comorbidities.
Mitchell said people who received two AstraZeneca doses will receive a Pfizer booster, while those who received Sinopharm will get an additional dose of the same brand.
Asked earlier Wednesday about what was happening at Port Mall, TRHA CEO Westly Orr insisted that Tobago was following the same policy as Trinidad.
In Trinidad, people 60 and over are eligible for a third dose of the Sinopharm vaccine, while those below 60 must be moderately or severely immunocompromised to get one.
When it comes to additional Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson jabs, anyone of any age can get the booster once they have been determined to be moderately or severely immunocompromised by their physician.
The Division of Health, Wellness and Family Development said on Wednesday there are 23,441 people partially vaccinated in Tobago, and 22,445 are fully vaccinated. (with reporting by Elizabeth Gonzales)
The post TRHA denies policy change on covid19 vaccine boosters appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
THE recounts in two electoral districts in Monday’s Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections have not changed the preliminary results, according to the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC).
The commission said the recounts for Buccoo/Mt. Pleasant and Darrel Spring/Whim, which started on Tuesday, have been completed and confirmed that the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) has won 14 of the 15 THA seats.
In a press release on Wednesday, the EBC said: “The Progressive Democratic Patriots' candidate in the electoral district of Buccoo/Mt Pleasant, Sonny Craig’s vote increased by one, extending his lead to three votes against his opponent Ancil Dennis.”
In the electoral district of Darrel Spring/Whim, there was no change to the votes received for either candidate when the recount ended. PNM's Kelvon Morris remained the winner over PDP's Abby Taylor. This was the only electoral district captured by the PNM.
On Tuesday, the EBC confirmed a higher turnout of voters – 57 per cent, up from 51.84 per cent in the tied January 25 elections. It said 29,273 votes were cast from among an electorate of 51,383, while 45 candidates, representing five political parties, contested these elections.
The post Recounts completed: THA election results unchanged appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
