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6 July – Santiago, Chile – According to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World2022 (SOFI), an additional 4 million were thrust into hunger between 2020 and 2021 in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean. This downturn comes after an already disheartening increase of 9 million people between 2019and 2020, with the number of undernourished […]

The St. Kitts-Nevis Bar Association marked their commitment to the improvement of juvenile justiceprogrammes in the Federation, with the recent donation of entertainment items to the New Horizons JuvenileRehabilitation Centre (NHRC) at a short ceremony held on July 5 th , at the Ministry’s AdministrationBuilding, Victoria Road.The donation, which includes three (3) smart television sets, […]

The Government of Saint Lucia (GOSL), through the Carnival Planning & ManagementCommittee (CPMC), continues to show support for Saint Lucian creatives by obtaining acopyright licence from the Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights(ECCO) Inc. in preparation for hosting the national carnival events. By doing so, theGOSL is demonstrating continued understanding and appreciation of the […]

Castries, Saint Lucia, July 5, 2022, CARILEC and RMI have joined forces to expand the opportunity for Caribbean utilities to participate in the second Global Fellowship Program designed to empower clean energy leaders and interested utility personnel. Beginning in September/October 2022, the next cohort of fellows will engage in a five-month fellowship program focused on solar-plus-battery-storage microgrid development. […]

5 July – Bridgetown, Barbados – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO) recently partnered with Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to implement aregional project that include four Caribbean countries to promote innovative, adapted andsustainable protected cultivation systems to grow high value and nutritious vegetable crops.This project has been designed to help […]

 COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FORTY THIRD REGULAR MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY 3-5 JULY 2022 The Forty-Third Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held from 3-5 July 2022.  Chair of the Conference, the President of Suriname, His […]

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. On 5 July, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) dismissed an application for special leave to appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Dominican case of Cuffy and Others v Skerrit and Others [2022] CCJ 12 (AJ) DM. The CCJ agreed with the Court […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 5, 2022 (SKNIS): Minister of Entrepreneurship, Entertainment and Talent Development, the Honourable Akilah Byron-Nisbett, stated that the MoENT is committed to supporting the creatives within the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. She said this during the launch of the MoENT TV channel on July 1 at the Royal St. Kitts Hotel and […]

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, 4TH July 2022 — With great sadness, the St Christopher and Nevis Social Security Board mourns the passing of Board Member Mr Trevoy Liburd. Mr Liburd has served on the Board since August of 2020 to present. He shared a keen interest in impacting the staff at the Branch Office and was […]

BUENOS AIRES, 5 July 2022 (IICA). In Buenos Aires, the ministers of agriculture of Argentina and Brazil, Julián Domínguez and Marcos Montes, and the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, discussed the role of the two major agricultural producers in helping to deal with the threat to global food security […]