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Paramaribo, 29 June, 2022. Three primary schools located in rural villages in the hinterland of Suriname are today benefitting from water supplies through the installation of water harvesting and storage systems.  The population of approximately six hundred and ninety-two students, and thirty-one teachers distributed over the three schools in the villages of Jaw-Jaw, Masia Kriki, […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts (June 21st, 2022)— Mrs. Claricia Langley-Stevens has joined the St Kitts Electricity Company Ltd as the new Safety and Security manager. Langley-Stevens is a disaster risk professional with twenty years of experience in the Disaster Management and Emergency Response field.   Langley-Stevens previously served as the former Deputy National Disaster Coordinator (DNDC) at […]

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (June 22, 2022) — The Department of Statistics and Economic Planning in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) continues to urge residents to cooperate with enumerators who visit their homes to collect data for the 2021/2022 Population and Housing Census. Mrs. Dorriel Tross-Phillip, Director of Statistics, while giving an update on the ongoing census on June […]

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (June 24, 2022) — Residents not wanting to divulge their dates of birth has become an issue for the Department of Statistics and Economic Development in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), as it conducts the 2021/22 Housing and Population Census. Mrs. Dorriel Tross-Phillip, Director of the Department of Statistics told the Department of Information […]

29 June 2022, Bridgetown, Barbados – In recognition of the millions of small-scale fishers, fishfarmers and fish workers who provide healthy and nutritious food to billions of people globallyand contribute to eradicating hunger, The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2022the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022). The Food andAgriculture Organization of […]

Paramaribo, Suriname, 28 June, 2022 (IICA). The Paramount Chief of the Saramacca Maroon, Albert Aboikoni, received on behalf of the Saramacca maroon community, agricultural inputs, seeds, small agricultural equipment and implements to assist with the immediate rehabilitation of farms, considering the devastation caused by recent flooding in the hinterland of Suriname, occasioned by higher-than-normal average […]

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, June 28, 2022 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Statements being peddled in the general public regarding the cost to the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis for the construction of a new correctional facility have been labelled as misleading by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the […]

Washington D.C. 24 June 2022 (PAHO) – The six candidates nominated to lead the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) addressed Member States today in a closed forum following the organization’s Executive Committee meeting. The candidates nominated by Member States to lead PAHO in the next five years are: Dr. Camilo Alleyne (nominated by Panama)Dr. Jarbas Barbosa […]

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, June 27, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — Resident Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan), His Excellency Michael Chau-Horng Lin, is lauding efforts of the government through the Ministries of Education and Environment in sensitising children at a tender age on the importance of recycling waste that is generated in the country. Ambassador Lin had, on […]

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, June 28, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — Last minute change of the route did not deter the youthful members of Philadelphia Pathfinders Club of Tabernacle Village from executing a successful fundraising walk-a-thon held in aid of the forthcoming dedication of their church. The walk-a-thon which was held in collaboration with the Men’s Ministry of the […]