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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, July 13, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – On the Tuesday, July 13 edition of Leadership Matters, it was revealed that the application forms for persons to access assistance under the recently announced stimulus package will be ready by Friday, July 16. The application forms relate to the $1,000 Income Support Programme for citizens who are unemployed and have not worked from March 2020, and the $400 Fuel Subsidy Programme that will provide relief to the owners of passenger buses who have been negatively impacted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, July 14, 2021 (S.T.E.P.) — Workers on the Skills Training Empowerment Programme (STEP) received their salaries in the period the country went through days of limited operations, where some businesses did not open, and also on the days the country was under a 24-hour lockdown. This was revealed on Tuesday evening July 13 by Prime Minister and Minister of Human Resource Management, Dr the Hon Timothy Harris, who has responsibility for the Skills Training Empowerment Programme (STEP), when he hosted the popular Leadership Matters, a virtual forum series, on ZIZ Television under the theme ‘Building a resilient…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, July 14, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – As the fight to control and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the Federation continues, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris is calling on all sectors of society to continue to do their part to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of citizens and residents across St. Kitts and Nevis. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Team Unity-led Government has been doing all it can to keep its people safe through the implementation of restrictive measures and protocols and the provision of…

Basseterre: St. Kitts, Sunday, 11th July, 2021:​ A Virtual opening ceremony utilizing the Ministry of Education’s official online learning platform is organized for individuals who met the requirements to be engaged as teachers for the 2021-2022 academic year. The theme for this years’ Pre-Service Training programme remains ‘Education for All: Embracing Change, Securing the Future’ which was coined in connection with the Ministry’s 2017-2021 Education Sector Plan. The sessions afford prospective teachers a preview of the profession prior to engaging in actual classroom teaching. Each candidate will sit Literacy and Numeracy Proficiency Tests which will be administered on the afternoon…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 13, 2021 (SKNIS): With the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season in full swing, the country’s attention is on disaster preparedness but doing so in a COVID-19 environment. Officials from the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) will be featured on the popular government radio and television programme “Working for You” on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. The special guests will be Mrs. Claricia Langley-Stevens, Deputy National Disaster Coordinator; Mrs. Janelle Lewis Tafari, Chair of the Welfare, Relief Supplies, and Shelter Management Sub-Committee; Mr. Valentine Lindsay, Chair of the Housing and Shelter Sub-Committee. The discussion will focus on the comprehensive…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 13, 2021 (SKNIS): The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis in its efforts to continue to protect its citizens against the COVID-19 has created bubble tours for the cruise passengers arriving from July 22 onwards.This was stated by the Minister of Tourism, Honourable Lindsay Grant, during the Prime Minister’s Press Conference on July 8, 2021“I would also like to indicate that when the passengers alight from the cruise vessel, they are going to go into bubble tours, and it means that they will not have direct contact with the citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis,”“If they are…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 13, 2021 (SKNIS): Minister of Tourism, the Honourable Lindsay Grant, said that the Seabourn Odyssey and the Celebrity Millennium are scheduled to arrive in July 2021 during the Prime Minister’s Press Conference on July 8. He said, “Since the pandemic hit in March of 2020, we have been working assiduously behind the scenes getting our stakeholders ready for the eventual day of the start of the cruise and so we have trained in excess of 5000 of our persons in the industry ensuring that the new protocols that are now in place will be followed when we…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, July 13, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – It has been less than a week since Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris announced the introduction of several measures that were designed to bring much needed assistance to passenger bus operations in St. Kitts and Nevis. Aspart of its comprehensive and far-reaching relief measures announced on Thursday, July 08, the Team Unity-led Government reinstated the annual Import Duty exemption for 16 tyres (4 tyres per quarter), four pairs of brake pads and three pairs of brake shoes for ‘H’ passenger buses. Additionally, the…

Basseterre: St. Kitts, Monday July 12, 2021:​ The Early Childhood Development Unit (ECDU) within the Ministry of Education engaged private proprietors and supervisors of the various early childhood centres in meetings on the way forward for the reopening of day care centres following a closed down prompted by a community spread of the current Covid-19 virus. These sessions were held on Monday July 12 at the ICCS school auditorium. Ms. Kimona Brown, Director of the Early Childhood Unit reminded centre owners and supervisors of the need to adhere to the already established Covid-19 protocols and informed that there would be…