Experimental Zika vaccine to be tested on humans

June 22, 2016 in Regional

PENNSYLVANIA, United States, Tuesday June 21, 2016 —A United States pharmaceutical company and an international DNA vaccine developer have been given the green light to start phase one of a Zika vaccine human trial. In preclinical testing, the synthetic Zika DNA vaccine (GLS-5700) developed by Inovio...

PM ACCUSED OF DEFAMATION

June 21, 2016 in Regional

Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has threatened all “necessary legal steps” to protect its name from what it termed “highly defamatory allegations” made by Prime Minister Gaston Browne when he charged that the Sandals Grande Resort regularly “pocketed” Antigua & Barbuda Sales Tax (ABST) revenue. In a...

Two killed in plane crash in the Bahamas

June 21, 2016 in Regional

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) — Civil Aviation Department Accident Investigation representatives are due here Monday to begin probing the plane crash that left two people dead late Sunday. A statement from the Department of Civil Aviation noted that the agency had received a report of smoke in...