By Santana Salmon CNW- The World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved additional financing of US$20 million for the Strengthening of Primary Health Care and Surveillance in Haiti Project (PROSYS), which aims to increase utilization of primary health care services in select geographical areas, and strengthen disease surveillance capacity, especially cholera. Access to quality healthcare […]

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14ymedio, Havana— The Cuban ambassador to the United States, Lianys Torres Rivera, paid a visit to Miami at the end of May to meet with businessmen related to travel and remittances to the Island. According to a report by América TeVé, the Cuban diplomat traveled “in secret” to avoid protests against her, in a city […]

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Tijuana, Mexico (CNN)- We had to apologize for being late. The traffic was horrible, we explained. It was only after nearly an hour of crawling through near standstill traffic on a Tijuana, Mexico, highway that we saw the crash that caused the rush-hour snarl. Two vehicles, a pickup truck and an old four-door sedan were […]

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June 19 (Reuters) – Curacao will begin negotiations with a seven-company consortium to take over management of the Caribbean island’s oil refinery and storage terminal, state-owned Refineria di Kòrsou (RdK) said on Sunday. Curacao’s 330,000-barrel per day Isla refinery was idled in 2018 amid a payment dispute between then-operator Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and U.S. […]

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  NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS — The following is a notice from the Nevis Electricity Company Limited (NEVLEC) regarding an adjustment to the fuel surcharge for the month of June 2022. As you are aware, the price of fuel has been increasing over the past several months and this is likely to continue. In an effort […]

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The future of the coronavirus pandemic by the Guardian UK At the start of the pandemic, the idea of getting reinfected with Covid was not on anyone’s mind. But by April 2022, England had recorded over 890,000 reinfections, crushing any hopes of gradual herd immunity. A study published by Imperial College London last December found […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS  – The Premier’s Ministry, through its Work Permits Office, is informing all non-nationals residing on Nevis who are in arrears of payment for Work Permits, annual Residency and Visa Extensions, that an amnesty will be put in place from Friday, July 01, until Friday, September 30, 2022, for all outstanding amounts owing to […]

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By Alys Davies BBC News Eight people are now suspects in the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, police say. Three suspects have already been arrested. But five more people who allegedly helped hide their bodies have now been identified, police told reporters. Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira went missing […]

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By Matt Murphy BBC News Gustavo Petro, the former mayor of Bogota and ex-rebel fighter, has become Colombia’s first left-wing president. Mr Petro, a current senator, defeated the right-wing construction magnate Rodolfo Hernández in Sunday’s run-off election. Figures show he took 50.5% of votes, defeating his millionaire rival by a close margin of around 700,000 […]

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