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Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 01, 2021 (SKNIS): The Ministry of Sustainable Development hosted a COVID-19 vaccine education session on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, at the Department of Statistics where several staff members were vaccinated.The session was conducted by the National HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinator and Health Educator, Dr. Mathias Afortu-Ofre. A Covid-19 Vaccination Clinic was staged at the Department’s boardroom immediately after the information session. Elretha Simpson-Browne, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Sustainable Development, was among one of the first to take the vaccine. She expressed thanks to Dr. Ofre for a job well done and noted that the session was timely…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 01, 2021 (SKNIS): The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Committee held its first community sensitization meeting on the project ‘Clean-up of the Cayon River/Ghaut, Hermitage & Keys Bay Areas’ at the Cayon Community Centre on March 30, 2021. Secretary-General of St. Kitts and Nevis National Commission for UNESCO, Dorothy Warner said that the committee is reaching out to the community to help roll out the project as there is much work to be done. “There is also much to learn about how we hope to strike a delicate balance between conserving, preserving, and protecting the environment…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, April 1, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris will, on Saturday April 3, be leading health-conscious walk enthusiasts on the latest edition of Prime Minister’s Monthly Health Walk that will follow the regular route from Bellevue to the Ottley’s hardcourts. “It is a long holiday weekend and people are anxious to indulge in their Good Friday food – their salt fish, dumpling, breadfruit etc. and then Monday is a holiday and people may go on picnic and indulge a little bit,” observed Prime Minister’s Monthly Health Walk organiser Ms Myrtilla Williams. “But in…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 31, 2021 (RSCNPF): The Police are investigating a traffic accident in which a motor SUV struck a pedestrian. The incident occurred along Cayon Street in the vicinity of the intersection at Fort Street and Victoria Road sometime after 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. It involved motor SUV PB 4966, which is owned and was being driven by Michael Bartlett of Shear Lane, Basseterre and pedestrian Albert Wyatt of Parson Village. The circumstances are that Wyatt was walking along the pedestrian crossing from Fort Street towards Victoria Road when the driver of motor SUV PB 4966,…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 31, 2021 (Ministry of Social Development and Gender Affairs): Persons in need of information on the Ministry of Social Development & Gender Affairs will soon be able to obtain it from a central source, as the Ministry is set to launch its website on April 1st, 2021.The website, which can be accessed at www.socialdevelopment.gov.kn, will provide a comprehensive overview of the Ministry, including its eight (8) Departments and available services therein, contact information, as well as project details, photos, and official publications, such as the Ministry’s quarterly Newsletter, Community Corner. The site is expected to be updated regularly with current information…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 31, 2021 (SKNIS): Seniors in St. Kitts will be given the opportunity to stay active, mingle with each other, interact with the younger generation, and pass on their knowledge when the Department of Community Development and Social Services re-introduces the ‘Golden Years Club’.Haniff Charles, Community Development Officer and Secretary on the Seniors Enrichment Programme Committee said that it is extremely important to have the Golden Years Club reestablished in the Federation.“We realize the importance of having the seniors going out to prevent isolation, psychosocial issues… and we really want our seniors to go out and associate, mingle with others, and…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 31, 2021 (SKNIS): Officials within the Department of Community Development and Social Services are focused on improving the negative attitudes that some young people have towards seniors.On Wednesday’s (March 31, 2021) edition of the radio and television programme Working for You, Osslyn Ward-Harris, the director of the department, said that youth often are “impatient” when dealing with older people.“We need to target that group and educate them on the importance of ensuring that older persons are treated in a most dignified way. That is extremely important and of concern to us as a department,” Mrs. Ward-Harris stated.Haniff Charles, Community…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, March 31, 2021 (SKNIS): In a ruling today (March 31) in St. Kitts and Nevis High Court in relation to the convening of the so-called Emergency Sitting of Parliament on January 16, 2015, by the former Dr. Denzil Douglas-led Administration to debate boundary changes on the eve of the 2015 General Elections, High Court Judge the Hon. Mr. Justice Trevor M. Ward Q.C, said: “there is no obvious or apparent reason why the debate on the Commissioner’s report should qualify as an emergency.”The Report of the Constituency Boundaries Commission in 2015 was dismissed by the Court as…

On the 27th October, 2020, His Excellency the Governor General assented to a change in the Electoral Laws. The changes, contained in Amendment No 13 of 2020, distinguished between CARICOM and COMMONWEALTH nationals, and clarified ordinary resident a bit more. Previously, all Commonwealth nationals, both Caricom and other, qualified to register as voters after residence for twelve months. The change kept the twelve month qualifying criterion for Caricom but increased it to three years for all other Commonwealth citizens. This change means that as of that date, the rights of 2.38 billion persons of the 42 commonwealth countries in the…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, March 30, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, has long maintained that the construction sector will be one of the key sectors that will help rebuild the economy of the twin island Federation post COVID-19. And on Tuesday, March 30, the honourable prime minister saw evidence of this firsthand when he visited the Hillsboro Suites and Residences located at Mattingley Farm, Sunset Reef St. Kitts situated at Palmetto Point, Trinity, and the Royal St. Kitts Hotel where construction work is…