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DUBAI, 20 October 2021 – Space will help humanity to secure its future, and international collaboration is critical to further exploration, according to speakers at the US-UAE Business Council – Leveraging International Partnerships in Space Exploration event on Tuesday at Expo 2020 Dubai’s USA Pavilion. Distinguished panelists from Boeing, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, and StarLab Oasis discussed the latest breakthroughs in space technology and how cross-border exchange will help advance innovation as part of Expo 2020’s Space Week. Kuljit Ghata-Aura, President, Middle East, Turkey and Africa, Boeing, outlined the benefits of space exploration: “If you go to the beginning of intelligence gathering, we put powerful satellites in…

DUBAI, 19 October 2021 – Mechanical engineer Nora Al Matrooshi is the first Arab woman to train as an astronaut. Following the successful launch of the UAE’s Hope probe mission earlier this year, Al Matrooshi, alongside Mohammed Al Mulla, was chosen from more than 4,000 candidates to join the second batch of the UAE Astronaut Programme and receive training for future exploration missions. The Expo News Service (ENS) team caught up with the 28-year-old Emirati at Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC) during Expo 2020 Dubai’s Space Week (17-23 October), in association with Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and the UAE…

DUBAI, 19 October 2021 – Sultan Al Neyadi is one of the first two astronauts from the UAE, along with Hazza Al Mansouri. Al Neyadi has completed his first year of training at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre – flying supersonic jets that travel faster than the speed of sound. The Expo News Service (ENS) team caught up with Al Neyadi at Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC) during Expo 2020 Dubai’s Space Week (17-23 October), in association with Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and the UAE Space Agency – one of 10 Theme Weeks that will take place throughout Expo, as part…

UN Women Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean made the call on her three-country Caribbean mission to Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago With the glaring gap in financing for women-owned enterprises (only 22% of impact investing in Latin America and the Caribbean for women-founded businesses), burgeoning responsibilities of care for children and the elderly because of COVID-19 school closures and movement restriction, forcing women out of the formal economy, UN Women is focused on working with its development partners to prevent women and their families from falling into poverty. On her inaugural mission to the Caribbean, UN…

Consortium of Banks to acquire the banking operations of CIBC FirstCaribbean in Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (12 October 2021): Today, a Consortium of leading Banks in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the branches and banking operations of CIBC FirstCaribbean in Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The agreement executed on 12 October 2021 is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. Commenting on the transaction, Consortium Lead, and…

19th October, 2021 – BASSETERRE (NEMA): The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is once again collaborating with the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA-BHA) to conduct a Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis Workshop on St. Kitts. The training is being conducted by local Facilitators Terry Morris and Livingston Pemberton, as part of the on-going arrangement between the two agencies and in support of NEMA’s disaster management mandate. Messrs. Pemberton and Morris are both certified by OFDA and remain a vital component of that agency’s regional resource base. The three-day event, which is taking place at NEMA HQ, Lime Kiln,…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 19, 2021 (SKNIS): The management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis will be the special topic on the popular government radio and television programme “Working for You” on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. The special guests will be Nurse Mary Caines, Head of Case Managers; Mr. Josef Markman, Leader of Contact Tracing Team, and Dr. Dwain Archibald, responsible for Hospital Management of Cases. The discussion will focus on the roles and responsibilities of case managers and contact tracers; the link between contact tracing and testing; protocols for testing and dissemination of results; and…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, October 19, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – On Monday, October 18, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, joined fellow CARICOM Heads and Ministers of Finance virtually for a Caribbean Ministerial Meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with a special focus on emerging from the pandemic as a more resilient Caribbean region. Monday afternoon’s meeting, which was also attended by Central Bank Governors, looked at the theme “Overcoming the Crisis, a Stronger, More Resilient Caribbean.” The IMF was represented in the meeting by its Managing Director,…

Basseterre: St. Kitts, Tuesday, October 19th, 2021:​ The Home Economics Department at the Washington Archibald High School (WAHS), under the leadership of Ms. Roline Taylor, has embarked on a Week of Awareness aimed at sensitizing the student body of the school on three internationally recognized activities celebrated in the month of October. The Week of Awareness conducted under the theme: “Show you care, be aware, eat local, support the fighters and respect the elderly” effectively represented the international activities under focus. The activities are: International Day of the Elderly, which was celebrated on October 01; World Food Day celebrated on…

The AGRO-INNOVA and PROCAGICA projects provide technical assistance and agricultural inputs to bolster food production based on good agricultural practices under agroforestry systems. The initiative aided farmers in the Trifinio region in developing and applying technical guides and good agricultural practices to help steer implementation of smallholder and backyard crop diversification models. San Jose, 19 October 2021 (IICA). The European Union (EU) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) set in motion a plan to aid 1,508 farming families in the Trifinio region—the border territory shared by El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala—in strengthening smallholder and backyard production for self-consumption through…