WASHINGTON, (CMC) - The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS is increasing in Latin America and the Caribbean. PAHO said that nearly 600,000 more people are receiving antiretroviral treatment for HIV in the region than in 2003. PAHO released the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haïti (AFP) - Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed 132 people and may have infected nearly 15,000 others so far this year, a UN agency report said Wednesday. The Caribbean country's cholera outbreak started in 2010 and "an unacceptable number of people have been affected, with...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) - A group of 41 men who were being held for crimes including murder, kidnapping and robbery broke out of a jail outside Caracas early Wednesday, authorities said. The men escaped through a "hole in the wall" at the detention centre in Los...
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Nov 26, CMC – The Grenada government Wednesday presented an EC$1.15 billion (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) budget to Parliament with Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell saying the fiscal “is consistent with our obligations set out” in the agreement reached with the...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haïti (AFP) — Thousands of anti-government protesters in Haiti called Tuesday for the resignation of President Michel Martelly, whom they accused of trying to reinstall a dictatorship. Opposition politicians called for the protests, which took place in several neighborhood of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. The...