Oct 7, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Moderna plans to spend about $500 million to build a state-of-the-art mRNA facility in Africa. At present, only about 4.5% of Africans had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the continent’s top public health official. The proposed site is... 
Oct 7, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Edward mark the 2022 Commonwealth Games baton relay, a sporting event held every four years with athletes from across the Commonwealth. The baton will travel for about 294 days with the Queen’s message to the Commonwealth. The event... 
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
The South Pacific Business Development (SPBD Tonga) Microfinance empowers its members to start, grow and maintain micro-businesses with its loan program – White Goods Financing (WGF) in partnership with Durga Lakshmi Manufacturing Ltd (DLM), one of the largest... 
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
At a virtual Service Excellence Conference, Nigeria’s High Commissioner, Dr Maureen Tamuno says that Nigeria is exploring opportunities for trade and business with Jamaica. The High Commissioner further added that formalising a new air-service agreement would be... 
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Bahamas’ new economic affairs minister, Michael Halkitis, wants to boost the financial services industry at the highest priority and “progressively harness profitable niches”. Halkitis intends to diversify investments in technology, renewable energy,... 
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Crypto asset platform CoinSwitch Kuber raises more than $260 million in Series C funding round from existing and new investors including Coinbase Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, valuing it at $1.9 billion. The company plans to design ways of simplifying investments...