Four Florida Universities awarded to counter Zika
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- <strong>Four Florida Universities awarded to counter Zika.
- The CDC allocated $10 million grant to the four universities</strong> South Carolina-based Kiawah Island Golf Resorts has settled a wage dispute involving hundreds of workers including Jamaicans.
- Under the settlement the workers will be paid US$2 million.
- The Jamaica Ministry of Labor, said it pleased that the class action lawsuit including 240 Jamaican hotel workers has been amicably resolved.
- The workers who were employed to the hotel chain between 2012 and 2014 had claimed the hotel wrongfully deducted money from their pay.
Four Florida Universities awarded to counter Zika. The CDC allocated $10 million grant to the four universities
South Carolina-based Kiawah Island Golf Resorts has settled a wage dispute involving hundreds of workers including Jamaicans. Under the settlement the workers will be paid US$2 million. The Jamaica Ministry of Labor, said it pleased that the class action lawsuit including 240 Jamaican hotel workers has been amicably resolved. The workers who were employed to the hotel chain between 2012 and 2014 had claimed the hotel wrongfully deducted money from their pay.
A Jamaica Defense Force (JDF) recruit who had fall suddenly sick with 80 other recruits while train in Jamaica was transferred in critical condition from the ICU at the University Hospital of the West Indies to a Florida hospital for further treatment. The exact nature of the illness was not determined but according to the ministry of health in Jamaica, it involved flu-like symptoms and the recruit who was taken to Florida had severe respiratory ailments.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia has announced the allocation of a $10 million grant to four Florida universities for research to counter the spread of the Zika virus. The research will be collaborated between the University of Florida, the University of Miami, Florida International University and the University of South Florida to study Zika and other mosquito bearing diseases.
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