By Sir Ronald Sanders  (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States.   He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto)    Democracy is at stake in the country that […]

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By Granth Vanaik = Nov 3 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Group (RCL.N) on Thursday forecast strong bookings for 2023 as it benefits from increased demand for cruising due to the relaxation of on-board COVID-19 protocols, even as fuel costs rake up. The cruise operator’s shares, which reversed course to trade up about 4%, said it […]

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By Ted Hesson and Jackie Botts (Reuters) – U.S. sponsors applying to bring Venezuelans into the United States under a new program are receiving approvals in hours or days, a lightning-fast pace that could soon fill up available spaces in the program, according to U.S. sponsors and advocates. Some sponsors are U.S.-based relatives of Venezuelans […]

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By Marc Frank HAVANA, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Cuba kicks off the country´s annual sugar harvest this month, but experts and state officials say the crisis-racked Caribbean island will struggle to produce enough of the sweetener even for its own consumption, dashing plans for export. Cuba’s communist-run government has said it plans to produce 455,000 […]

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SAN SALVADOR, Nov 3 (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook El Salvador’s coast on Thursday, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC). El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele classified the earthquake as magnitude 5.9 via Twitter. Reporting by Nelson Renteria; Editing by Brendan O’Boyle

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Security forces in Haiti say they have taken control of a major fuel depot held by criminal gangs. The government says fuel distribution will resume from the Varreux terminal, in the rundown Cité Soleil area, on Monday. The gangs seized the port facility in September, blocking the delivery of imported fuel and hampering efforts to […]

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© AP Pfizer and BioNTech have launched a phase 1 trial for an mRNA-based vaccine that would target both COVID-19 and the influenza virus. According to BioNTech, the vaccine candidate is a combination of Pfizer’s flu vaccine candidate, which is in phase 3 clinical development, and the company’s bivalent omicron-specific coronavirus vaccine dose. The study […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (November 03, 2022) — The Department of Agriculture was gifted with 2,000 pineapple slips from the Taiwan Technical Mission in St. Kitts and Nevis on November 02, 2022. Mr. Roy Yuan Hung Lo, the new Mission Chief, delivered the donation to Mr. Huey Sargeant, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, on his first […]

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By CMC News Immediate action is needed to save children in Haiti amid the “triple threat” of cholera, malnutrition and violence, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said on Tuesday. CRC members urged the international community to support authorities in the Caribbean country in guaranteeing the rights of millions of children […]

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, November 3, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — Over twenty five participants, drawn from employees in public and private tourism sectors, are taking part in the St. Kitts Sustainable Destination Council of the Ministry of Tourism-organised two-day ‘I Speak St. Kitts Culture and Heritage Workshop 2022’ that opened on Wednesday November 2 at the CUNA […]

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