Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen is urging people who are suffering from a mental illness to seek professional help which might save their lives.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has sought to assure tourists that they are not at risk despite the current leptospirosis outbreak.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Sandals Foundation has injected J$6-million worth of equipment and resources to help the Corporate Area based Bustamante Hospital for Children accept and care for the critically ill neonates, babies, and children who are being transferred to the institution from areas that were ravaged by Hurricane Melissa.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Suriname's government says persons insured with the State Health Insurance Fund (SZF) will no longer be required to pay extra for operations and medications that fall under the SZF allowance.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government Thursday sought to re-assure the public as well as potential visitors to the island that there is no need to panic amid concerns of a leptospirosis outbreak.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, says environmental health teams are working closely with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and other agencies to access remote communities following reports of dead animals and deceased persons being marooned in communities after Hurricane Melissa.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Monday said it has launched the nee HEARTS Quality Framework ,  which countries can  immediately use to enhance hypertension and cardiovascular risk management, prevent heart attacks and strokes, and deliver better care through primary health care closer to people’s homes.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government Friday confirmed an outbreak of leptospirosis with health authorities saying that six people have so far died as a result.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says a field hospital is scheduled to arrive within the next 24 hours for deployment to the town of Black River in the southern parish of St. Elizabeth.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The government of Guyana intends to purchase an anti-retroviral known as lenacapavir, that scientists say can offer protection against Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) up to six months.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname - France has bestowed the “Knight of the Legion of Honor” the lowest rank in the country’s highest civilian order, on Surinamese medical practitioner, Dr. Ruben del Prado.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – The Cayman Islands Blood Bank on Friday sent a critical donation of 51 units of red cells and 72 units of plasma to the National Blood Transfusion Service in Jamaica.