The UN maritime court on Tuesday ruled in favour of nine small island states including Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, and St. Kitts and Nevis that brought a case to seek increased protection of the world’s oceans from catastrophic climate change and rising sea levels. The court was ruling on the International Convention on the […]

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A proposal under consideration by some members of the G20 group of advanced economies that would place a worldwide tax on the assets of the ultrawealthy does not have the support of the Biden administration, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday. Yellen told The Wall Street Journal that the United States is in favor of […]

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Galveston, Texas – Marking a Texas-sized milestone today, Carnival Cruise Line further solidified its position as the market leader in Galveston, Tex., becoming the first cruise operator to embark 10 million guests from the port. Marsha Taulton of Houston was recognized on Carnival Breeze as the 10 millionth Carnival guest cruising from Galveston. Taulton and […]

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P&O Cruises Australia has answered a plea for help from a group of young Australian Rotary volunteers, stranded in Vanuatu following the collapse of Air Vanuatu. The students, many of them teenagers from Albury in NSW, were volunteering for a youth project run by the Hive Rotary Club Australia when the airline abruptly cancelled all […]

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – 20 May is World Metrology Day, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in Paris, in 1875. This treaty provides the basis for a worldwide coherent measurement system that underpins scientific discovery and innovation, industrial manufacturing and international trade, as well as the improvement of the quality of […]

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Despite earlier assurances from the Minister of Sports, Samal Duggins, that St. Kitts would host warm-up games for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, the official schedule announced last week does not include any matches in St. Kitts. This follows the disappointment in September when St. Kitts and Nevis did not bid to host […]

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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. “My office submits that these acts were committed as part of a common plan to use starvation as a method of war and other acts of violence against the Gazan […]

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The Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections (GAFFI) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to improve the diagnosis and treatment of fungal diseases. The agreement, which formalizes years of successful collaboration between the two agencies to improve patient health, focuses on cooperation to decrease the impact of […]

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The Government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is has announced that Lorna Smith, the Deputy Premier and Minister for Financial Services, Labour, and Trade, will lead a 13-member delegation on a trade mission to Asia, one of the BVI’s most important business markets. The BVI stands at the forefront of international corporate structuring for […]

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The Dominican Republic voted yesterday in a general election amid severe concern regarding how the country, which occupies the eastern end of the island of Hispaniola, should act concerning the severe refugee situation in neighboring Haiti, which shares the island. Many Haitians already live, legally or illegally, in the Dominican Republic and there are many […]

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