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Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 30, 2021 (SKNIS): The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has made significant enhancements at the St. Kitts Meteorologist (MET) Office to improve its efficiency and accuracy, said officials from the Met Office during the popular radio and television show ‘Working for You’ on April 28.Former Met Officer, Ray John, who outlined a brief history on the developments at the Met Office said that the office “changed out of necessity.”“We were taught not just meteorology in a general sense but more aviation meteorology than anything else.”“And so, it was solely directed towards hourly observations and three-hourly synoptic…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 29, 2021 (SKNIS): The 2021 Hurricane Season, which officially starts on June 01, indicates another above-average period with 18 named storms, 12 less than the 30 named storms in 2020.“For this year, they are looking at a lower number and the reason for that is because last year we had a strong La Niña, whereas this year, we anticipate that as we go into the peak of the Hurricane Season, we are going to be experiencing a weak to moderate La Niña,” said Elmo Burke, Senior Meteorological (MET) Officer at the St. Christopher Air and Sea…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 29, 2021 (SKNIS): The St. Kitts Meteorological Department has evolved over its 50-year history moving from an office solely focused on providing information for aviation purposes to a more professional and extensive role in forecasting and recording weather phenomena and sharing with various institutions locally and regionally. On Wednesday’s (April 28, 2021) edition of the radio and television programme Working for You, Ray John, a former Met Officer, reflected on the services provided in the earlier years of the Met Office, as the department is commonly called. “We were taught not just meteorology in a general sense but…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 29, 2021 (SKNIS): Elmo Burke, Senior Meteorological (MET) Officer at St. Christopher Air and Sea Ports Authority (SCASPA) said that the St. Kitts MET Department has invested significantly in infrastructure and human capital over the last 50 years to meet the demands of an evolving world. “For us to move from 1971 to 2021, we would have had to invest – whether it be here nationally from the national budget or through SCASPA or various projects – we had to invest in terms of the infrastructure because we needed to keep up with the technology because having…

San Jose, 29 April 2021 (IICA) – The Central American Program for Integrated Coffee Rust Management, PROCAGICA, has worked successfully with the Executive Secretariat of the Central American Agricultural Council (SECAC), the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), to promote a production model for coffee that is sustainable and resilient to the challenges of climate change. This team effort has yielded major results: PROCAGICA has benefitted more than 7,000 coffee farmers in Central America and the Dominican Republic, by fostering coffee plantation restoration, crop diversification to bolster…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 29, 2021 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis Youth Ambassador Corps officially launched a new project on Wednesday (April 28, 2021) designed to increase the contributions of young people to the sustainable development of the twin-island Federation.The initiative, dubbed the Youth Capacity Building Small Grants Project on Youth in Sustainable Development, will build the capacity and practical skills of young people to design, implement, and monitor interventions relevant to the social, economic, and sustainable development of youth and their communities. The project is geared towards members of youth groups specifically. It is spearheaded by the national youth ambassador…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 29, 2021 (SKNIS): The Team Unity Cabinet of Ministers met on Monday, April 26, 2021, at the Ministry of Finance Conference Room, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris. Several issues affecting the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis were deliberated on. The National COVID-19 Task Force gave its weekly briefing to the Cabinet where the usual update on statistics with respect to infections, recoveries, and deaths locally, regionally, and internationally was given. The Chief Medical Officer presented to the Cabinet technical advice and recommendations as to how the Federation could relax COVID-19…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 29, 2021 (SKNIS): Elmo Burke, St. Kitts’ Senior Met Officer at SCASPA (St. Christopher Air and Sea Ports Authority), said that the weather forecast at times does not pan out the way it was predicted, but the prediction was based on the most accurate information received at the time. Mr. Burke was at the time speaking on the April 28 edition of “Working for You.” “People have a tendency to say that the weather forecast was wrong and I always argue against that,” he said. “The reason I give is that, yes the information didn’t pan…

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 26 April 2021.  Safe and effective vaccines have been available and used for more than 100 years to prevent the spread of contagious, life-threatening diseases. Vaccinations have, in some instances, eliminated diseases that cause mortality, and in the Caribbean region, vaccinations have led to significant improvements in health. This year, under the theme “Vaccines bring us closer. #GetVax” CARPHA joins its partners and the rest of the world in observing the 19th Annual Vaccination Week in the Americas. This year’s campaign which runs from April 24 to 30, seeks to demonstrate how vaccination connects us…

The St. Kitts-Nevis Chamber of Industry and Commerce signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MOU) with the British-Caribbean Chamber of Commerce.The MOU is intended to strengthen the links between the British-Caribbean Chamber ofCommerce and the St Kitts and Nevis Chamber of Industry and Commerce, byenhancing their relationship and raising awareness in business opportunities,partnerships, joint ventures, and investment opportunities and to increase the flow ofinternational trade between the UK and St Kitts and Nevis and St Kitts and Nevis andthe UK.This MOU which is supported by the High Commission for St Kitts and Nevis in London,will act as a platform to build additional…