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(EMU) – St. Kitts, April 27, 2021: The Ministry of Education Invites all retired and past colleagues of Mrs.Yvonne Bagnall (Evelyn) to join us in tribute to the late teacher on the occasion of her Home Going Service. Practise for this event will be held on Thursday April 29th at 4pm at the Early Childhood Development Unit on Victoria Road. We ask you to kindly participate in this event in honour of Mrs Bagnall Evelyn’s memory.

Monday, April 26, 2021 — Entrepreneurs and innovators in the Eastern Caribbean now have additional support to scale-up and expand their enterprises. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen the regional legal and regulatory architecture necessary to support the protection and monetization of intangible assets and other forms of intellectual property in the region. This revised agreement represents a new chapter in an ongoing collaboration between the two entities aimed at ensuring the value of OECS creativity and innovation is properly harnessed and protected. The Caribbean…

26 April, 2021, Bridgetown, Barbados – Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN) is the first country in the Caribbean to have carried out an individual food consumption survey using a tailor made software (myfood24) which collects information on what people eat and drink over the previous 24-hour period (24-hour recalls). The FAO-funded survey was carried out between November 2020 and January 2021 and included a representative sample of adults between 18 and 65 years. The University of the West Indies, Federal University of Paraná, Ministry of Health on behalf of the Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis (UWI), and the Food…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, April 26, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris, while advising people not to take for granted what they have, is encouraging everyone to give thanks to God for the gift of knowledge to mankind and reminding all to see their cup as half full instead of half empty. “The little things that we take for granted are some of the very blessings which God has bestowed upon us,” said Prime Minister Harris. “We take for granted for example this morning we wake up, and today somebody died – and it is not us.”…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 26, 2021 (Department of Culture): The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis has ratified a few of UNESCO’s international conventions, since joining this UN specialised agency in Paris in 1983. The most recent being the 2003 Convention for Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression, in April 2016.This has allowed St. Kitts and Nevis to access UNESCO’s resources and expertise in protecting these specific cultural features.As a result of a constructive relationship that exists between St. Kitts and Nevis and UNESCO, this international…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, April 26, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – As the CARICOM region observes Vaccination Week in the Americas 2021 this week (April 24-30), Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, is calling for greater public education programmes to combat the growing trend of vaccine hesitancy in the Caribbean, particularly as it relates to the COVID-19 vaccines. “We already have a culture that values and embraces immunization. However, there are strong pockets of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and skepticism. These must be addressed through targeted messaging and sensitization,” said…

BARBADOS, 22 APRIL 2021 – The Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN), in collaboration withUNICEF and several regional partners, is launching the “Stay Alive and Thrive” Climate Action Campaignto raise public awareness about the urgent need to mitigate and adapt to climate change across theCaribbean and around the globe. Caribbean residents and concerned citizens worldwide are invited tosign the campaign’s petition at www.stayaliveandthrive.org The Stay Alive and Thrive campaign features twenty-six Caribbean Youth Ambassadors that have cometogether to rally their peers, the public and political leaders to let their voices be heard at the 26thConference of Parties (COP26) – a global…

Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Wednesday received Guyana’s new Ambassador to CARICOM H.E. George Talbot, in a ceremony which also highlighted the country’s lead role in the Caribbean Community’s food production and food security. Guyana holds lead responsibility for Agriculture, Agricultural Diversification and Food Security in the CARICOM Quasi-Cabinet, and President H.E. Irfaan Ali earlier this year presented to his colleague Heads of Government, a Food Production and Food Security Agenda which outlines in detail the strategy and action plan for transforming the agriculture sector in CARICOM. “The Secretariat looks forward to working closely with you and your colleagues on…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 26, 2021 (SKNIS): Slowly but surely, more and more countries around the world are enacting bans on single-use plastics to reduce waste, enhance sustainability, and promote a healthy environment. To date, 12 Caribbean countries including Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Eustatius, Saint. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as Trinidad and Tobago, have all placed a ban on the use and import of single-use plastics and Styrofoam. “We are in a region where many of the islands have already banned the use of single-use plastics,” said Minister of…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 26, 2021 (SKNIS): The Department of Environment in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Environment, UNEP DTU Partnership and its regional collaborating centre, the University of the West Indies (UWI), recently launched the preparation of a Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) for St. Kitts and Nevis. The stakeholder consultation, which took place on Thursday, April 22, saw a wide array of disciplines participating in the exercise. Stakeholders from both the public and private sectors participated in this activity, which also served as the official national launch of the TNA project. With a changing climate, there is a need to ensure…