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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, January 30, 2023 (SKNIS) – Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew met with the various Heads of National Security this morning [January 30, 2023] to discuss joint operations to be implemented as part of the ministry’s mandate to employ and strengthen its crime-fighting strategies.Present at the meeting were National Security Advisor, Major General Stewart Saunders; Commissioner of Police, Hilroy Brandy; Assistant Commissioner of Police, Adolph Adams; Assistant Commissioner of Police Andre Mitchell; and Assistant Commissioner of Police McCarta Browne.The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis continues to work diligently to ensure that…

Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, January 28, 2023 [Press Secretary’s Office]: The Ministry of National Security has been working assiduously to ensure that the safety and security of our citizens and residents remain a priority within the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis will therefore continue to ensure that the security agencies will maintaina zero-tolerance approach to crime, focusing on the preservation of law and order within our communities. This has been reiterated by Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew, who stated in his 2023 Budget Address last…

Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, January 27, 2023 [Press Secretary’s Office]: The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis will be introducing a new payroll system for the civil service. All monthly paid civil servants will soon be paid on a twice monthly or on a semimonthly basis.Semimonthly means that employees will be paid two times per month on specific dates. If one of those stipulated pay dates falls on a weekend, the payroll is instead paid out on the preceding Friday. The semimonthly payroll process is an initiative utilized by several private sector companies including the hospitality industry and has…

The St. Kitts and Nevis Site of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus held a virtual Certificate Giving Ceremony on Wednesday, 25th January 2023, for individuals who completed professional development courses during Semester 1 of 2022/2023. The online and face-to-face classes, ranging from six to twelve weeks in duration and in diverse subject areas included participants from the public and private sectors in St. Kitts, Nevis, Grenada, St. Lucia and Jamaica. One hundred and thirty-three (133) virtual certificates were distributed in the following areas: Business Writing and Communication I, Customer Service, Introduction to Human Resource Management, Introduction…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 27, 2023 (SKNIS): A notice has been issued for a sitting of the National Assembly to be held at the National Assembly Chambers, Government Headquarters, Basseterre, on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 10:00 am.The Order Paper and other papers will be made available at a later date.The National Assembly will be broadcast live on ZIZ Radio (96 FM) and participating radio stations. It can also be viewed live on TV Channel 5 in St. Kitts and Channel 98 in Nevis. It will also be streamed live at www.zizonline.comCopies of Bills can be found on the website (sknis.gov.kn) of the…

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu met with Presidents and Heads of State during the Commmunity of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit in Argentina. He also paid an official visit to Paraguay. 26 January 2023, Santiago de Chile – “All FAO teams in the region are ready and committed to providing all the technical expertise and capacity to help meet today’s food security challenge”, said FAO Director-General QU Dongyu at the VII CELAC Summit held this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this context, the Director General met with the Presidents of Brazil, Ignacio Lula da Silva of Argentina, Alberto Fernández…

(Basseterre; St. Kitts) The Ministry of Youth Empowerment is on a search to find top musicians from St. Kitts and Nevis, for the International Youth Cultural Exchange Program this July, for students between the ages of 14-18. The renowned International Music Camp organization is hosting a Youth Cultural Exchange and is one of the leading Summer Schools of Fine Arts in North America and is located at the International Peace Garden on the border between the United States and Canada. The purpose of the camp is to encourage the development of a greater understanding among the youth of the world…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 26, 2023 (SKNIS): Seven small business owners received grants from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) after completing a business improvement plan on 26th January 2023. In an interview at the closing ceremony, Therez Ambrose-Versailles, Tourism Research Officer at the Ministry of Tourism in St. Kitts said, “The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with the Caribbean Development Bank, the Frankfurt School of Business and Finance Management, as well as the University of the West Indies, came together in 2021 to devise a programme that is designed to help small businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.” The programme…

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. In a judgment released yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) dismissed the application by Mr Basil Williams, the former Attorney General of Guyana, for special leave in the Guyanese case of Basil Williams v Prithima Kissoon, Guyana National Newspaper Ltd, and The Attorney General of Guyana [2023] CCJ 3 (AJ) GY. Mr Williams was seeking to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal of Guyana which refused to grant him leave to appeal a decision of the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Guyana, and an extension of time to lodge that appeal. Ms…