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 Biden Extends COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declaration, World Covid Stats

by Nathaniel Weixel THE HILL       White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha addresses reporters during the daily briefing at the White House on Tuesday, October 11, 2022   The Biden administration has extended the nation’s COVID-19 public health emergency for the next 90 days as officials brace for a potential surge […]

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Haiti: People Will Die as Country Nears Breaking Point – UN

Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Across Haiti, almost five million are struggling with malnutrition By Merlyn Thomas BBC News The United Nations is warning that hunger in one of Haiti’s biggest slums is at catastrophic levels, as gang violence and economic crises push the country to “breaking point”. Nearly 20,000 people in the capital’s impoverished Cité Soleil […]

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Wolverhampton : History-Making UK Mayor Proud of Jamaican Roots

Jamaica-born Mayor of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom (UK), Councillor Sandra Samuels (left), holds a Jamaican flag at a civic function to mark Jamaica’s 60th Independence anniversary on August 6, 2022, at the African Caribbean Centre (The Hub) in Wolverhampton. Other officials and Jamaicans participated in the event. Loop News- Jamaica-born Sandra Samuels, the first black person […]

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Nevis Island Assembly to Sit October 18

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (October 15, 2022) — A sitting of the Nevis Island Assembly is scheduled for Tuesday, October 18, 2021, from 10 a.m. at the Assembly Chambers at Hamilton House on Samuel Hunkins Drive in Charlestown. According to the Order Paper dated October 13, 2022, circulated by Ms. Myra Williams, Clerk of the Assembly, […]

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Nigeria Floods: ‘Overwhelming’ Disaster Leaves More Than 600 People Dead

Image source, Getty Images By Ishaq Khalid & Elsa Maishman BBC News, Abuja & London Recent flooding in Nigeria has become an “overwhelming” disaster, and many states were not properly prepared for them despite warnings, the minister for disaster management has said. More than 600 people have died in the worst flooding the West African […]

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Atty. General: SKN CBI Scheme Being Strengthened for ‘Enhanced Sustainability’

Basseterre, St. Kitts- Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, the Honourable Garth Wilkin, said that the Government of St Kitts and Nevis is strengthening and improving its Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Programme for enhanced sustainability. “We are in the process of putting things in place so that we can have the [CBI] Programme […]

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National Caribbean Insurance Sponsoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month Activities

 BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS — As the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis observes activities to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), the National Caribbean Insurance Company Limited has partnered with the Essence of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation as a corporate sponsor, in support of the Foundation’s work and advocacy for cancer patients. “National Caribbean Insurance […]

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Support for Juan Guaidó has dwindled

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)     At the height of Donald Trump’s […]

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