EDITOR’S NOTE: In our last edition (ie. 2021-04-19), #HealthCaribbean covered vaccine deliveries to the Caribbean via the Covax facility. In this newsletter, we do the same but alternate arrangements instead. Three locations are represented, namely: Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Trinidad has one of the five articles, and the other two locations two articles apiece.

Our headline, taken from iNews Guyana, reads: “Guyana In Talks With Johnson & Johnson To Acquire COVID-19 Vaccines”. All going well, Guyana will be the first in the Caribbean to acquire that vaccine. But with the arrival of Sputnik V from Russia, Guyana is already first for that one. However, the Dominican Republic got Sinopharm from China before they did.

Trinidadian Prime Minister Keith Rowley, in his present capacity as CARICOM Chairman, has appealed to the U.S. to share its stockpile of COVID-19 vaccines, as it “said it would with Mexico and Canada”. But, an article published in the Jamaica Gleaner claims this is not possible. Finally, Jamaica is the first to have received vaccines through the African Medical Supply Platform.

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