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Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 26, 2023 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs): Two national educators in the persons of Ms. Clarice Cotton and Ms. Vanta Walters have been featured by the Organization of American States (OAS), on their social media platforms, as the organization continues to commemorate the VI Inter-American Week of People of African Descent in the Americas. The Week is being celebrated under the theme, “Fighting Slavery’s Legacy of Racism through Transformative Education in the Americas”. The OAS has therefore utilized the week to showcase amongst other things, the profiles of transformative education advocates from across the Americas, who have…

Belize City, Friday, 24 March 2023 (CRFM)—The Blue Justice Caribbean Hub, a regional hub to strengthen cooperation and coordination in the use of innovation and digital technology to fight fisheries crimes, was launched on the occasion of the two-day International Blue Justice Conference 2023, which concluded today in UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark. The establishment of the Blue Justice Caribbean Hub in Jamaica is the latest in a series of advancements by the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) and its Member States in combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and transnational organized crime in the fishing industry. Jamaica and other CRFM States celebrate the Caribbean’s launch…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 24, 2023 (SKNIS): Eighteen persons have joined the ranks of certified elderly care providers in St. Kitts and Nevis, having completed a three-month course at the C. F. Bryant College in Elderly Care. The successful trainees were presented with certificates during a ceremony at the Solid Waste Management Corporation on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Lecturer Marshalette Smith-Anthony at the Division of Health Sciences noted that the course participants completed six weeks of theoretical and skills practice in the first instance, followed by clinical placement for the remaining six weeks. “The Elderly Care Provider Course was designed…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 24, 2023 (SKNIS): With the growing water shortages and lack of water conservation, among others, Cromwell Williams, Water Engineer at the Water Services Department (WSD), said that it is time to hold a national conversation on the price structure of water in St. Kitts and Nevis. “I think St. Kitts and Nevis is one of the places where water is cheapest. The last time the water price was increased was 2001, 20 years ago. Let us be realistic, $20 for water in 2023, is not sustainable if we want to provide a world-class water service. So that…

All traders, livestock owners and other agricultural stakeholders are hereby advised that the St. Kitts Abattoir will be accepting animals for one day only, which is Sunday, 2nd April 2023. All meat cutting will be done on Thursday 6th April 2023. This is in observance of the Good Friday holiday on 7th April 2023. Meanwhile, For the week ending 15th April 2023, the St. Kitts Abattoir will be accepting animals for one day only, which is Monday 10th April. There will not be any deboning within that same week. All cutting of meat will be done on Friday 14th April. This is to accommodate the smooth flow of operation ahead of the…

23 March 2023, Basseterre, Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis –Commercial banks and financial institutions provide a range of critically important services to the citizens and residents of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. Speaking on this week’s episode of ECCB Connects, Baldwin Taylor, General Manager of Bank of Montserrat Limited, and Secretary of the Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat Bankers Association as well as the ECCU Bankers Associations, shares information about the different types of accounts available at financial institutions and discusses some common terms used in banking. Taylor outlines that the various types of accounts offered by commercial banks…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 23, 2023 (SKNIS):The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis is moving ahead with its agenda to accelerate change in the water services sector as it seeks to meet the demand of a growing population and an expanding agricultural sector. On the March 22 edition of the radio and television programme InFocus, Cromwell Williams, Water Engineer at the Water Services Department (WSD) said the theme for World Water Day 2023 – “Accelerating Change” is apt as it captures the general strategy of the Government to build resiliency as it grapples with reduced rainfall due to climate change. Drilling new wells,…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 23, 2023 (SKNIS):The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has pledged to invest heavily in the Federation’s water sector by implementing several initiatives to enhance its sustainability and resiliency. This was announced by the Honourable Konris Maynard, Minister of Public Infrastructure, Energy and Utilities, Domestic Transport, ICT, and Posts, while delivering his National Statement at the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations 2023 Water Conference on Thursday, March 23 in New York, U.S.A. “Over the next five (5) to 10 years, we will invest over EC$200 million in sustainable and resilient water infrastructure including drilling additional…

Basseterre, St. Kitts. March 23, 2023 (Ministry of Sport and the Creative Economy)-St. Kitts and Nevis is demonstrating that our culture is alive and well and its preservation is a priority. This was evident at the launch of the ‘Safeguarding St. Kitts and Nevis Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)- Developing a National Policy ICH Project’ at the CUNA Caribbean Conference Center, on March 22.The operative theme for the launch, ‘A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people,’ is indicative of the importance placed on the creation of a dedicated instrument for the preservation and safeguarding of our…

23 March 2023, Basseterre, Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis – The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) hereby advises that effective 24 March 2023, theoperations of FirstCaribbean International Bank (Barbados) Limited (FCIB) in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines will cease, and will now be subsumed as part of the Bank of St Vincent and the Grenadines’ (BOSVG) operations. The ECCB, in consultation with the ECCB Monetary Council, approved the application for the transfer of the assets and liabilities of FCIB, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines branch to BOSVG on 15 July 2022, pursuant to Section 43 of the Banking Act, 2015 of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (No 4of 2015), as amended. In accordance with these approvals, the ECCB issued an updated banking license to BOSVG. The Banking Business Vesting Orders…