The government of Guyana will soon be buying 100,000 street lights which will be installed across the country to enhance communities and “improve the livelihoods” of residents. Presumably this means that some small businesses will be able to function after dark using light shed from the new lamps. This was disclosed by Minister of Public […]

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American Airlines, which provides many flights and connections to numerous Caribbean destinations including St. Kitts, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, and the British Virgin Islands,  both from the US and from Europe has avoided an air crew strike by reaching a deal with the union representing the company’s onboard flight attendants, avoiding a large-scale strike that […]

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Charlestown, Nevis – Deputy Premier and Minister of Agriculture in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), the Honorable Eric Evelyn has expressed his gratitude to the Department of Marine Resources in St. Kitts and Nevis and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for a recent donation of biodegradable fish pots to fisher folk on Nevis. “We […]

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – As the above-normal 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season rolls on, the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) undertook a three-day National Hurricane Preparedness and Response Simulation Exercise from July 17-19, to assess St. Kitts and Nevis’  response systems in the event of a hurricane. This important simulation exercise was initiated following the request of […]

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Following the launch of the St. Kitts and Nevis Internet Exchange Point (SKNIX) in September 2023, the Department of Technology hosted a series of collaborative workshops with ArkiTechs Inc, IT consultants, and MCNET Solution at the National ICT Centre, C.A Paul Industrial Site from 17 June to 27 June 2024. The […]

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged all-out rescue and relief efforts to safeguard people’s lives and property after the collapse of a highway bridge, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Seven vehicles that fell into the river have been found with 12 fatalities confirmed after the partial collapse happened to a bridge of the Danning Expressway […]

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Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa, a Nepali who works as a guide in the world’s highest moutain range ran into what most people would regard as an usual problem, a  body blocking the narrow path up a mountain, which was thought to be Milan Sedlacek, a Czech mountaineer who’d perished just a few days earlier. And indeed […]

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At least 40 people who were attemting to migrate from Haiti by boat have died and several others were injured after a boat they were traveling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a UN agency said Friday. The cause of the fire is unknown. The boat appeared to be traveling westwards from […]

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By Sir Ronald Sanders Mia Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, recently informed her country’s House of Assembly that their nation “is in a crisis with respect to an ageing and declining population.” By making this statement, the Prime Minister highlighted a pressing issue that affects not only Barbados but many other countries in the […]

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