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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (March 26, 2021) — A cross section of women with non-traditional occupations on Nevis participated in a Non-Traditional Occupation for Women (NOW) workshop on March 23, 2021. It was hosted by the Ministry of Health and Gender Affairsin collaboration with the Women in Construction group at the department’s conference room. Ms. Lorraine Archibald, Coordinator of the Gender Affairs Department explained that the session was part of the department’s month of activities throughout March to celebrate International Women’s Day with the theme “Women in Leadership: Choose to challenge.” “We celebrate all of our women who would have made contributions to…

BASSETERRE (26th March, 2021): St. Kitts continues to be featured in the media. This week, St. Kitts Tourism Authority CEO Racquel Brown was live on Travel Talk Radio, Caribbean Journal featured St. Kitts as one of the top islands to visit this spring and Ann Tran penned a blog post highlighting what St. Kitts has to offer as she reminisced on her last visit and outlined plans for her next trip to the island. CEO Racquel Brown joined Bob Nesoff on his weekly live podcast Travel Talk Radio to talk about the “friendliest island in the Caribbean.” Nesoff and Brown discussed the…

CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, March 26, 2021 (DBSKN) — The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis has a successful vaccination programme where children have been taking their vaccines dutifully, thereby protecting the adults and a senior health official is appealing to adults to take the Covid-19 vaccines to protect children who are not eligible to take it now. “I think it is about time that we protect them because they have been protecting us by going religiously to get their vaccinations,” said Medical Officer of Health in the Ministry of Health on Nevis and Chair of the Nevis Covid-19 Task Force, Dr Judy Nisbett.…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 26, 2021 (SKNIS): In her support of the Bill entitled “Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2021”, which was passed in Parliament on March 25, the Honourable Wendy Phipps, Minister of International Trade, Industry, Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Labour, stated that changes to the Bill are meant to redefine the business operations that would be referred to as exempt companies. Minister Phipps said that the changes proposed to the Bill were heavily focused on the changing terminology and implications for what were previously considered exempt companies, which going forward would now be referred to either as international or ordinary companies…

The rich and deep historical heritage and legacy of the Federationis being given a major boost as heritage stakeholders collaborateto identify appropriate sites for inscription on the UNESCO WorldHeritage List. Under the auspices of the Federal Minister responsible for Culture, Hon. Jonel Powell, andunder the administrative supervision of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Commission forUNESCO, an Ad Hoc Interdisciplinary Heritage Committee is being established. Its mandateis to document and recommend a list of heritage sites in St. Kitts and Nevis for submission tothe UNESCO Tentative List. This is a very necessary first step in the process aimed atselecting one…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 25, 2021 (SKNIS): The COVID-19 pandemic which has caused a major economic global downturn has also created an environment where countries are unwilling to trade with one another as they are more concerned with their own citizens.This was explained by the Director of Marine Resources, Dr. Marc Williams, during an exclusive interview with SKNIS on March 23 at the Greenleaf Farm where he said that because of this, the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis has to produce its own food for its citizens.The way forward Dr. Williams said, is through aquaponics.Aquaponics as defined by the…

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (March 25, 2021) — The Ministry of Health in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) purchased a new state-of-the-art US$59,000 VITROS XT 3400 chemistry analyzer for the Alexandra Hospital’s Lab to assist in the speedy delivery of health care on the island. Hon. Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Health said at his monthly press conference in Cabinet Room on March 24, 2021, the new piece of equipment which has been installed and commissioned replaces an older model which broke down. “We acquired it last year but it has now been commissioned and the reason for…

March 25, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Board of Directors today endorsed a US$383 million programme for the 10th cycle of the Bank’s Special Development Fund (SDF), the programme devised to reduce poverty and inequality and transform the lives of citizens in its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs). The SDF represents the principal pool of concessional resources available to the Bank to assist BMCs in addressing poverty, sustainable development, governance, capacity development, gender inequalities, environmental sustainability, climate change, disaster risk management, and regional cooperation and integration. Established in 1970, the Fund is a unique partnership among the…

In order to facilitate work currently being carried out at the East Line Bus Terminal on Wellington Road, the drivers of omnibuses who operate from the Terminal have been granted permission to revert to the area previously used for pick-ups/drop-offs. As a result of this, East Line Bus Drivers will temporarily be allowed to park along Branch Street and Johnson Street from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., after which only the upper portion of the road will be designated for buses operating after that time. The kind cooperation of the public is being solicited and persons are asked to seek…