Published 20 November 2022
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Buckie Got It, St Kitts and Nevis News Source
Growers tallying their losses as consumer prices rise.
Salinas Valley lettuce growers are tallying their losses from a set of plant viruses that continue to increase in frequency and intensity across the region.
Published 20 November 2022
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Buckie Got It, St Kitts and Nevis News Source
A virus spread by insects is causing widespread damage to lettuce crops in the Salinas Valley, the renowned Salad Bowl that provides more than one-half of America’s lettuce.
According to growers and researchers, impatiens necrotic spot virus, or INSV, is ravaging lettuce fields in the region that normally accounts for $1.2 billion in annual lettuce production.
Published 17 November 2022
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Buckie Got It, St Kitts Nevis News Source
AS PLANS FOR THE LOCAL MEDICINAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY UNFOLD, GOVERNMENT MOVES TO OPERATIONALIZE MEDICAL CANNABIS AUTHORITY
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, November 17, 2022 (SKNIS) – The Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship as part of its Global Entrepreneurship week 2022 celebrations held a CannaBiz panel discussion on November 16, 2022. During the panel discussion, Attorney General the Hon. Garth Wilkins spoke to the existing laws that deal with the regulation of Cannabis and the Government’s plans for the industry moving forward.
Published 16 November 2022
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Former Health Minister Akilah Bryon-Nisbett isn’t anxious about the government’s recent transfer of doctors from Joseph N France (JNF) General Hospital to the Pogson institution in Sandy Point.
“I think first you would have need to follow the data and see how many patients you have coming through Pogson at any given time and then determine if it’s absolutely necessary to have doctors full time,” she explained to www.sknnewssource.com in a recent exclusive.
Published 14 November 2022
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FORMER HEALTH MINISTER AKILAH BYRON-NISBETT wants citizens and residents of St Kitts and Nevis take cancer seriously.
“Cancer related cases has always been an issue in St Kitts and Nevis as well. We have a growing number especially breast cancer and prostate cancer, so cancer has always been an issue as it relates to non-communicable diseases,” she said.
