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On the morning of July 15th, 2023, Police on Nevis received reports of a hit-and-run traffic incident in the New River area. At that time, preliminary investigations revealed that Florence Ella Merchant, an elderly lady of Hickmans, had been seriously injured in the incident. She was subsequently transported to the Alexandra Hospital for further examination […]

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Tuesday, 18 July 2023)   –   The CARICOM Eminent Persons Group (EPG) visited Haiti on 12-15 July 2023, as agreed at the end of the meeting of Haitian stakeholders in Jamaica on 11-13 June 2023, to continue its facilitation of inter-Haitian dialogue by building on the outcome of the Jamaica […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 18, 2023 (SKNIS): Richard Skerritt, Advisor to the Ministry of Tourism in St. Kitts, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Social Science degree from the University of Bolton in the United Kingdom for his contribution to the tourism sector. “Yesterday [July 13] was both a humbling and proud moment for me as I […]

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San Jose, 18 July 2023 (IICA) – Fourteen ministers of Agriculture and other high-level agriculture sector authorities from 25 countries in the Americas will meet this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in Costa Rica, to jointly determine measures to tackle the water crisis affecting a significant part of this […]

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July 18, 2023 – BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The emergency response capabilities of the Saint Lucia Fire and Emergency Department will be enhanced through a Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) loan valued at just over USD 11 million. The financing will underwrite the cost of upgrading equipment available to fire officers, enhancing fire and emergency infrastructure for more resilience […]

18 July 2023, Basseterre, Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis – The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) hereby advises that effective 17 July 2023, the operations of FirstCaribbean International Bank (Barbados) Limited (FCIB) in Grenada will cease, and will now be subsumed as part of the operations of Grenada Co-operative Bank Limited (GCB).  The ECCB, […]

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 — The 35th Meeting of the OECS Legal Affairs Committee (LAC) was held in Saint Lucia from July 6-7, 2023. The Committee, comprised of the Attorneys General of OECS Member States, met to review the draft OECS Customs Bill. The OECS Customs Bill is one in a suite of “Free Circulation of […]

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, July 18, 2023 (SKNIS) – The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew addressed the ongoing EU-CELAC Summit today, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, where he, among other things, called for greater multilateral cooperation to combat the challenging effects of climate change. Being held in Brussels, Belgium, Prime Minister Dr. […]