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Nevis Fruit Festival To Help Spur Interest in Local Produce Consumption

  NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (June 20, 2022) — An official of the Department of Agriculture on Nevis is hoping that its annual Fruit Festival which features local mangos, slated for July 29, 2022, will help to spur the public’s interest in fruits produced locally. Mr. Randy Elliott, Director of the Department of Agriculture, made the comment while […]

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WORLD VIEW: Gas Prices Soar, Asian Flood Disaster, Hell of East Ukraine, More

Trending | View in Browser June 20, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day. Today’s Headlines How much for gas? Around the world, pain is felt at the pump COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — At a gas station near the Cologne, Germany, airport, Bernd […]

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Colombia Turns Left: Report from Bloomberg

View in browser Depending on your political perspective, Colombia’s decision to elect its first-ever leftist leader is historic, an experiment, or dangerously uncharted territory. Petro Gustavo is a controversial pick to take the reins of Latin America’s third most populous nation and its closest US ally. A former guerrilla, he is mistrusted by many older […]

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World Bank Approves Funds to Strengthen Primary Health Care in Haiti

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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Cuba’s US Ambassador Met Secretly in Miami with Friends of the Regime

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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The Ever Present Danger of Being a Mexican Journalist

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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Curacao to Talk with U.S.-Brazilian Consortium to Run Island’s Oil Refinery

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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The Future of the Coronavirus Pandemic, World Covid Stats

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 Offers 3 Month Amnesty for Non-Nationals

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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