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Washington, D.C., 9 March 2023 (PAHO) – As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year in the Region of the Americas, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, has called on countries to strengthen surveillance and bridge gaps in vaccination coverage to end the emergency and better prepare for future health crises.  Over the past […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 09, 2023 (SKNIS): Services for women and children who experience domestic or gender-based violence will benefit from a newly updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis and the Garden of Rebirth. The new MOU was signed on Wednesday, March 08, 2023, during a brief ceremony at […]

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice delivered its judgment in Ellis Richards & Ors. v The State of Trinidad and Tobago AGOJ2021/001, a case in its Original Jurisdiction. Deciding a preliminary point raised at the case management stage, the CCJ dismissed the majority of the claims brought by policyholders of British American Insurance Company Limited […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 8, 2023 (SKNIS): InterCaribbean Airways Ltd, a Turks and Caicos-based airline, is set to make its inaugural flight to the Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw International Airport in Basseterre, St. Kitts, on Sunday, March 12, 2023. In a statement made in the National Assembly on March 7, 2023, Minister of Tourism, International Transport […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 8, 2023 (SKNIS): The Policy and Labour Relations Unit in the Department of Labour will make a Cabinet submission recommending an increase in the minimum wage, said Honourable Marsha Henderson, Minister of Employment and Labour, during her presentation at the sitting of National Assembly on March 7, 2023. “The last administration […]

Dr. Norgen Wilson Appointed Non-Resident Ambassador-Designate to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, March 8, 2023 [Press Secretary, PMO]:  Dr. Norgen Wilson has been recently appointed as the non-resident Ambassador-Designate to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and is scheduled to present his Letter of Credentials to the President of Venezuela, H.E. Nicolás Maduro […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 7th, 2023 [Ministry of Health] – Dr. Amilia Del Riego, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Representative for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, along with her esteemed staff was received by senior Ministry of Health staff on Tuesday, 7thMarch, 2023. Their visit is serving as a crucial step towards strengthening the partnership […]

March 7, 2023 The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI), pursues the empowerment of women to actively participate in and benefit from the digital economy through the Economically Empowered Women for Equitable and Resilient Societies” (Women’s Economic Empowerment–WEE) project in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 7th, 2023 [Ministry of Health]: At a brief ceremony on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, held at the Maternity Ward of the Joseph N France General Hospital, a plaque recognizing the institution’s achievement of completing the Baby Friendly Initiative certification process was unveiled. The ceremony, attended by Dr. Amilia Del Riego, the […]

March 8th, 2023, – The Eastern Caribbean Green Entrepreneurship Initiative (EC Greenpreneurs) is proud to announce the launch and call for applications for the third cohort of its Incubator program, aimed at supporting green entrepreneurs in the Eastern Caribbean region. Following the success of the first two cohorts in 2021 and 2022, the program once again seeks […]