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Published 20 January 2022

Basseterre 

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

21 January 2022, Rome – The climate crisis is posing a growing threat to our food security. Today, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed Physics Nobel Laureate Giorgio Parisi to join its Nobel Laureates Alliance for Food Security and Peace, an advocacy group that aims to amplify FAO’s work in tackling global hunger.

Parisi is an expert on complex systems that are difficult to model, such as flocking starlings, the stock market and the weather. A native of Rome, Italy, Parisi was awarded the Nobel prize in 2021 for “the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.” He shared the prize with Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, two leading meteorologists.

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Published 19 January 2022

Basseterre 

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

This year’s hurricane season is pointing toward above-average activity fueled by early indicators that the Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation (AMO) remains in a high positive phase, and signs that El Nino — during which trade winds are weakened and warm water is pushed back east toward the west coast of the Americas — will not happen this year.

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Published 10 January 2022

Bassterre

Buckie Got It, News Source

About 175 Haitian Migrants Come Ashore in Key Largo

About 175 Haitian migrants arrived ashore in Key Largo early Monday morning.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said the boat was found around 3 a.m. in the area near the exclusive gated community Ocean Reef Club.

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Published 28 December 2021

Basseterre 

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Supply and Demand: Why Markets Tick

FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT

Irena Asmundson

Buyers and sellers meet and at the right price all products are sold

I prefer organic (photo: Robbins Heath/Corbis)

Three little words. Often that is all it takes to make one’s heart beat faster. “Liberty, equality, fraternity” captured the French Revolution. “I love you” underpins many a successful relationship. “Life, liberty, happiness” are at the heart of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For many economists, those three magic words are “supply, demand, price.”

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