NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (November 14, 2022) –NEVLEC wishes to advise customers located in the Butlers area, that there will be an outage on Thursday, November 17th 2022, from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon. This outage is necessary to facilitate maintenance in the area. Please note that the electricity supply may be interrupted later and restored […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS  —NEVLEC wishes to advise customers located in the Banyan area, that there will be an outage on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon. This outage is necessary to facilitate maintenance in the area. Please note that the electricity supply may be interrupted later and restored earlier than the […]

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By Santana Salmon WASHINGTON DC, – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended its Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for recipient citizens of six countries including Haiti. In a statement, the DHS said the extension, that is also applicable to citizens of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Sudan and Honduras is “to ensure its continued compliance” […]

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By Santana Salmon CNW- Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis Dr. Terrance Drew stabilized an elderly traveler on a trip from Miami, Florida to Basseterre, St. Kitts. The prime minister who is also a medical doctor was also a passenger on the flight. It is reported that sometime during the flight, the man began […]

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Washington D.C. (PAHO/WHO) – Growing rates of obesity, poor diets, and lack of physical activity, among other factors, have contributed to a more than three-fold increase in the number of adults living with diabetes in the Americas in the past 30 years according to a new report by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The […]

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Today’s Headlines Biden, Xi to meet face-to-face amid superpower tensions NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden will sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday for their first in-person meeting since the U.S. president took office…Read More Across the US, a return to democratic order. Will it last? WASHINGTON (AP) — There […]

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Port-au-Prince, November 14, 2022 — About 200,000 more children in Haiti have been pushed into crisis-levels of hunger this year, with almost half the country’s population not knowing where their next meal will come from, Save the Children said. The number of people experiencing crisis-levels of hunger or worse in Haiti has skyrocketed to 4.7 […]

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GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 11 (Reuters) – A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook Guatemala late on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, though there were no immediate reports of damage. The USGS said that the epicenter was less than 6.9 miles (11 km) from the municipality of Masagua near Guatemala’s southern coast. It was fairly deep […]

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By Laurie Goering SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Months after torrential rain and fast-melting glaciers submerged a third of Pakistan, parts of the country’s southern Sindh and Balochistan provinces still resemble an inland sea. “There are places where, as far as the eye can see, you still see water,” said Farah […]

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By Stanley Widianto and Jake Spring NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Nov 14 (Reuters) – The world’s three largest rainforest nations Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia on Monday formally launched a partnership to cooperate on forest preservation. Reuters reported in August that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, elected as Brazil’s president at the end of […]

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