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A&B PM Confident of Climate Change Cash for Negatively Affected Nations

  by RYAN BACHOO GUARDIAN Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Gaston Browne, is confident nations being negatively affected by climate change will soon receive funding from those who are major emitters. Browne expressed optimism as he spoke to Guardian Media in a one-on-one interview […]

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Eighth Journalist Reported Killed in Haiti This Year

San juan, puerto rico The Associated Press Police patrol after recovering the bodies of slain journalists in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 7.Odelyn Joseph/The Associated Press The eighth journalist has been killed in Haiti this year, the Inter American Press Association said Wednesday. Fritz Dorilas, who worked for Radio Tele Megastar, was gunned down near his […]

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What the Latest U.N. Science Says About Climate Change

Nov 10 (Reuters) – At the COP27 conference in Egypt, delegates have at their disposal decades of research into warming trajectories published by the U.N. climate science agency to inform their decisions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces reports roughly every five years that represent global scientific consensus on climate change, its causes […]

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Natural Disaster-Hit Countries To Get Automatic Debt Freeze Option

By Marc Jones LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Countries hit by climate change-driven disasters such as flooding and hurricanes will automatically be able to freeze debt payments under new plans laid out by the bond market rule setting International Capital Market Association (ICMA). Devastating flooding in Pakistan has pushed it to the brink of debt […]

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COP27: Brazil’s Lula Will Offer to Host Future Climate Summit

By Lisandra Paraguassu Former Minister of Environment Marina Silva and Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva embrace during a news conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil September 12, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel/File Photo  BRASILIA, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will offer to host a future global climate change summit when […]

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Hurricane Nicole Barrels into Florida’s Atlantic Coast

By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Hurricane Nicole barreled into Florida’s Atlantic shoreline early on Thursday with a brew of heavy downpours, fierce winds and a treacherous surge of ocean surf that threatened coastal areas still reeling from the last major storm six weeks ago. Nicole was upgraded from a tropical storm to […]

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Nevis to Observe Remembrance Day 2022 On November 13  

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (November 07, 2022) — The following is a notice from the Premier’s Ministry regarding the observance of Remembrance Day 2022. The general public is advised that Sunday, November 13, 2022, will be observed as a National Day of Remembrance for those members of the armed forces who lost their lives in the wars of 1914 – […]

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CDB Offers Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies in Italy

 NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (November 09, 2022) —  The following is a notice from the Ministry of Human Resources on Nevis regarding study opportunities in Italy. The Ministry of Human Resources in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) wishes to inform you that the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of […]

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Local Businesses Thank 2022 Taiwan Expo for Affording Their Products Wider Exposure

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS — Eight local business exhibited at the 2022 Taiwan Expo in St. Kitts and Nevis which ended on Monday November 7, and the proprietors of these businesses are thanking the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) for giving them a golden opportunity to expose their products not only locally but to […]

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