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Emancipation Today Is About Protecting Our Rights As A People: A Bvi Perspective

By Benito Wheatley   Every year the British Virgin Islands as a post-slavery society commemorates Emancipation in celebration of our freedom as a people. This year marks 190 years.   However, Emancipation today is more than just about celebrating our foreparents freedom from slavery on 1st August 1834. It is also about protecting and preserving […]

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Carnival Cruise Line Reveals Pearl Cove Beach Club, Celebration Key’s Exclusive Retreat

Miami, Florida – With the opening of Celebration Key one year away, Carnival Cruise Line today unveiled details about Pearl Cove Beach Club, its exclusive retreat that will offer a premium experience for guests 18 and older.  Additionally, Carnival opened reservations for shore excursions, supervillas, cabanas and daybeds for guests booked on cruises visiting Celebration Key beginning in […]

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Global Trends In Respiratory Illnesses

St. Lucia – The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, is issuing this statement to inform the general public of the trends observed globally in respiratory illnesses with particular interest in COVID -19. Globally, the number of new cases of COVID-19 have remained at a stable level during the past 28-day period of 27 […]

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St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre Calls For COP 29 To Focus On Climate Finance And Action

St. Lucia – Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre has emphasized the urgent need for COP 29 to prioritize climate finance and concrete action during the Forty-Seventh Regular Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). He urged global leaders to secure the necessary funds to adapt and mitigate the […]

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Members Of The Federal Parliament Pay Homage To The Victims Of The 1970 MV Christena Disaster

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Before the early adjournment of the Thursday, August 01, 2024, sitting of the National Assembly in St. Kitts and Nevis, Members of Parliament (MPs) paid homage to and honoured the memories of those who died in the MV Christena disaster of August 01, 1970. This year marks the 54th Anniversary of the […]

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Parliamentarians In St. Kitts And Nevis Pay Tribute To The Late Glen “Ghost” Phillip

Basseterre, St. Kitts – During the scheduled Sitting of Parliament on Thursday, August 01, 2024, which was adjourned until Friday, August 02, 2024, Parliamentarians in St. Kitts and Nevis honoured the late Glen “Ghost” Phillip, who once served as a Member of Parliament and Member of Cabinet from 2010-2015. Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis […]

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Galapagos Creatures Facing New Threats.

In clear, deep blue water, around the Galapagos Islands, five hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador, thousands of marine creatures — fish, hammerhead sharks, marine iguanas are swimming around in search of food, as they have done for millions of years. But now there is something different happening and the underwater seafood supermarkets are […]

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Barbados Getting Ready To Store Emergency Power In Big Batteries.

Barbados is a step closer to launching its first procurement project for Battery Energy Storage Systems to support the grid and unlock stalled Solar PhotoVoltaic (PV) connections that will allow solar energy to be fed into the national electrical grid. The Ministry of Energy and Business is currently hosting a three-day Procurement Design Workshop with […]

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Biden Calls For American Revolution Mark II To Reform Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden has published an extraordinary column–known as an op-ed piece in the US, in the Washington Post in which he calls for radical reforms to the United States Supreme Court, the body of judges that has the power to strike down laws in the United States. Biden wants to end criminal immunity for […]

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