Earlier in June, the Lower East Side and New York City was shocked by an egregious outburst of violence when a person with severe mental illness stabbed three-people on 14th Street. While overall crime is down in our city and instances like this are an outlier, one violent act is […]
The United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland said on Wednesday that the new Permanent Representative of Guyana, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has presented his credentials to the Director-General Tatiana Valovaya. The UN Office said that prior to his appointment, Dr. Ramsammy served as an advisor to the Minister of Health of […]
The Washington-based Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has called on countries of the Americas, including the Caribbean, to strengthen surveillance, including laboratory detection and genomic sequencing of confirmed cases, following the identification of a new variant of mpox virus, Clade I (Clade Ib), in the sub-Saharan African Region. In an […]