Challenges to successful immunization programme
By: Public Health Staff Vaccines are among the most effective means of preventing disease, disability and death in infants, children, adolescents and adults. Through aggressive Immunization programs, Caribbean territories have made great strides in reducing and eliminating morbidity and mortality…
Message from Minister of Health, Environment, Youth, Sports and Culture Hon. Mark Scotland, JP
Vaccination Week in the Americas 2013 20-27 April Starting 20 April, the Cayman Islands join hands with other countries in the American Region to celebrate Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) with the theme : Vaccination: A shared responsibility. VWA…
Cayman climber, Guy Manning at Everest base camp
The following are blogs from Guy Manning, a partner at Campbells law firm in Grand Cayman, who set off from Cayman to Kathmandu in Nepal at the end of March, 2013 to begin a two-month expedition with team mates. They…
Health City Cayman Islands commences construction
The construction for Phase One of Health City Cayman Islands [better known as The Shetty Hospital] has commenced construction and is on schedule with first patients expected to check in to the 140-bed hospital in early 2014. The concrete is…
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Boston bombs suspect ‘in custody’/FBI interviewed one in 2011
BBC The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been taken into custody in a suburb of the city, police have said. Gunfire was heard as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found hiding in a boat in a backyard in…
CONCACAF and the United Nations partner in HIV/AIDS programme
MIAMI (Wednesday, April 17, 2013) —The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean AssociationFootball (CONCACAF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on April 19 agreeing to work together and engage football…
Op-Ed: What I have learned about autism by U.S. Chargé d’Affaires John Dinkelman
By John Dinkelman, Chargé d’Affaires, The Embassy of the United States of America “Your child has autism.” Words that no parent could ever fully be prepared to hear. Yet for millions of parents each year, they are the unwelcome introduction…
American World Clinics executives eye $200 million medical center for The Bahamas
NASSAU, Bahamas — Executives from the global health care venture American World Clinics (AWC) are in The Bahamas this week to discuss the establishment of the country’s biggest medical tourism site — a $200 million-plus venture to create over 200…
Hungry kids in Cayman’s community need nutritious meals
With the startling revelation that one in four children in the Cayman Islands public school system need financial assistance to buy lunches and rising, here is one charity designed to help. Feed our Future Cayman Islands is the charity. Their…
CIFA promotes Mind Walk Run and 3v3 Football Tournament
Health Body Healthy Mind 5K Walk/Run Saturday April 20th 2013 at 6;30am at No. 1 Shoe Shop, 62 Hospital Road, George Town, Grand Cayman. Note please that all students under the age of 18 attending a full time private or…
