Scotland has become the first country to allow free and universal access to menstrual products, including tampons and pads, in public facilities, a landmark victory for the global movement against period poverty. The Scottish Parliament voted unanimously in favor of the Period Products bill on Tuesday, months after lawmakers had initially signaled their support.It means period products will be available to access in public buildings including schools and universities across Scotland. According to the new rules, it will be up to local authorities and education providers to ensure the products are available free of charge. “The campaign has been backed…
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PARIS (AP) — A Black man beaten up by several French police officers said he is seeking justice after the publication of videos showing officers repeatedly punching him, using a truncheon and tear gas against him for no apparent reason. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered the officers involved in the case suspended. The incident came as President Emmanuel Macron’s government is pushing a new bill that restricts the ability to film police, which has prompted protests from civil liberties groups and journalists concerned that it would allow police brutality to go undiscovered and unpunished. Videos first published on Thursday…
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AFP) — Cash-strapped Latin American governments face severe geographical, economic and social challenges in trying to ensure life-saving COVID-19 vaccines are made available to vulnerable populations, experts say. Megacities like Sao Paulo, mountain ranges like the Andes as well as the vast Amazon basin pose just a few of the geographical problems for distributors, given the vital need to maintain the cold chain to preserve the vaccines. Transporting vaccines “to the most distant parts of the big cities and to peripheral neighbourhoods, with the need to conserve the cold chain, will be the first major challenge,” Colombian epidemiologist Carlos Trillos…
LIAT has introduced its new baggage policy effective Nov. 30 when it returns to commercial service. While customers will be allowed to carry on a small bag and personal item for free, their 1st Checked bag will cost US$10. The second checked bag will cost US$60 and the airline said these prices will apply for both ways — that’s US$20 and US$120 round trip. Infants who are ticketed separately and have a reserved seat are entitled to pay for the first bag allowance of 50lbs(23kgs) per person. The maximum overall size per piece will be 62 inches (157 cms). Source:…
Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found at a construction site in Glen Thursday morning. We would update further
ST. JOHN’S ANTIGUA, November 25, 2020 – LIAT, The Caribbean Airline, will begin its commercial schedule on November 30th with flights operating to a limited number of destinations. The airline will operate flights five days a week to seven destinations across the LIAT network. The seven destinations are: Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, and St. Vincent. The limited schedule of flights will return connectivity to these destinations which were impacted by the airline’s suspension of commercial services. LIAT will announce shortly the addition of other destinations to the schedule for December 2020. The airline has completed all…
Lieutenant William Theobalds of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard has achieved a new milestone becoming the first Vincentian to complete the International Maritime Operators Course at the United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Lieutenant Theobalds, who graduated on November 6th, 2020, said he is elated about his achievement and looks forwards to achieving greater things. The programme was informative and provided insight of previous maritime operations, including “Operation Neptune” the largest amphibious landing to take place in history said Lieutenant Theobalds, who has 26 years of experience as a Coast Guard Officer. The International Maritime Operators…
PARIS, France (AFP)— More than 60 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been detected worldwide, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Wednesday. In total 60,014,291 infections, leading to 1,415,258 deaths, have been recorded around the world since the pandemic emerged in China late last year. The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization, probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections. Many countries lack testing capacity, or test only symptomatic cases or the most serious ones. The European region including Russia has had 17.1…
The initiative is one of several programs Canadian diplomatic missions are undertaking globally to shine a light on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and girls, and support UN Women’s ongoing #OrangeTheWorld campaign. One in three women and girls experience violence in their lifetime. SGBV happens disproportionately to women and girls in every country and every society, including in conflict situations: at home, in schools, on the streets, at work, on the internet and in refugee camps. Too often violence against women and girls is normalized and goes unpunished. Canada condemns in the strongest terms all forms of SGBV…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In a time of plague and raw division, President-elect Joe Biden appealed for unity Wednesday in a Thanksgiving-eve address to the nation asking Americans to “steel our spines” for a fight against the coronavirus that he predicted would continue for months. But even as he implored Americans to join in healing and common purpose, President Donald Trump asserted that the election should be overturned, a futile call but one that stokes the divisions Biden is trying to overcome. With COVID-19 cases surging nationwide, Biden called on Americans to take precautions to try to stem the tide…