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Belize City, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 (CRFM)—High-level delegations from several Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will participate this week in the Blue Justice Conference 2023, billed by organizers as the largest global high-level event on transnational organised crime in the global fishing industry. The Blue Justice Caribbean Hub—to be housed in Jamaica—will also be launched at the high-level event.Officials from twelve CRFM Member States—Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and The Turks and Caicos Islands—will be among the participants from approximately 80 countries…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 22, 2023 (SKNIS): The Small Business Development Centre (SBDC) within the Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship hosted the second in a series of training workshops for small business owners on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at CUNA Conference Centre. Permanent Secretary (PS) of Small Business, Delrine Taylor said that 78 participants registered for the workshop which was centered on grant readiness. “It is very good because we see that people crave these responsibilities to get information to develop themselves. So we are looking forward to you being a part of more workshops and activities that we…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 21, 2023 (SKNIS): Joshua Williams, Cornerback for the reigning NFL (National Football League) Super Bowl Champions Kansas City Chiefs, is visiting St. Kitts and Nevis to meet his extended family and explore his roots to the twin-island Federation. Joshua Williams is the son of George Williams, a national who resided in Molineux before migrating to the United States to live. Williams arrived on Tuesday (March 21, 2023). He was welcomed by Prime Minister the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew and greeted by Deputy Prime Minister the Honourable Dr. Geoffrey Hanley and the Ambassador in the Ministry of…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 21, 2023 (SKNIS): The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) will host its annual Caribe Wave Tsunami Exercise on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The purpose of the Caribe Wave Tsunami exercise is to test the Federation’s preparedness and response protocols such as emergency communications and evacuation procedures. The NEMA is thereby calling on all of us to build resilience against coastal hazards and promote tsunami readiness at all levels of society. The deadline to register for the Caribe Wave 2023 exercise is Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 1:00 pm. A debriefing for the exercise will take place at the NEMA…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 21, 2023 (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew, welcomed the launch of the Seniors’ Day Programme, noting that it will help to improve and enrich the lives of the retired participants. At the launching ceremony on Monday (March 20, 2023) at the Newtown Community Centre, the Prime Minister recounted his years at a university in Cuba where he saw centres for seniors to visit and gain computer skills, learn knitting, and other skills that they did not know. Implementing a similar programme here was deemed necessary, as persons are living…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 21, 2022 (SKNIS): The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis in its efforts to continue to provide and grow the water services within the Federation has elected to invest 200 million dollars into the Water Services Department over the span of 5 to 10 years. During his World Water Day 2023 address on March 18, Minister of Public Infrastructure and Utilities et al Honourable Konris Maynard said “The experts at the Water Services Department have indicated that over the past ten (10) years we have seen about an 18% decrease in the average annual rainfall.” He added, “While we…

THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE EXTERNAL EMPLOYMENT AND CONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITIES IN THE GENERAL SECRETARIAT EXTERNAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:Job Title: Chief of Security(Regular Fund)Organizational Unit: Department of General ServicesGrade: P03Employment Announcement Number: EO/20/23 CONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITIES:Title: Support Consultant for Implementation and Operations of the OAS Water Portfolio (Specific Funds)Organizational Unit: Department of Sustainable Development Title: Human Rights Consultant (Specific Funds) Organizational Unit: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights TO SEE THE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES PLEASE CLICK IN THE FOLLOWING LINKS:External Employment Opportunities Consultancy Opportunities WE INVITE STAFF MEMBERS TO PERIODICALLY VISIT OAS CONNECT / EXTERNAL EMPLOYMENT ANDCONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITIES TO BE FAMILIAR WITH NEW POSTINGS.

18th March 2023 – The Government of Saint Kitts & Nevis will attend a hybrid workshop in Saint Lucia from 21-22 March 2023, with the ultimate objective of mainstreaming the human security approach in disaster displacement and environmental migration policies in the Eastern Caribbean. Participants at the workshop will be working to validate preliminary assessments of the extent to which the human security approach is included in national policies on disaster displacement and environmental migration and contribute to recommending ways to achieve greater integration of this people-centred approach. Mr Abdias Samuel, National Disaster Coordinator at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) will join…

Why World Water Day? Fellow citizens, I am honoured to address you on the occasion of the celebration of World Water Day 2023. The United Nations General Assembly in 1993 decided that the 22nd of March each year shall be set aside as World Water Day. On this day, we all should pause to reflect and focus our attention on the importance of freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of our freshwater resources. The Theme: Each year a different theme is chosen; this year the theme is “Accelerating Change.” To accelerate is to increase the rate of change. So,…

The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Jarbas Barbosa, has called for a closer alliance between the health and economy sectors to avoid a “triple crisis” such as the one generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which stretched economies, safety nets, and health systems to the limit.  “Never before has the case for investing in health and the health economy been made so clearly, and the consequences of under-investment in health made so evident,” the PAHO Director said at the inaugural meeting of the Economic and Health Dialogue of the Americas – an initiative bringing together representatives from health…