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8 December 2022 As his second UNESCO speaking engagement since taking office, the Hon. Konris Maynard, St. Kitts and Nevis Minister of Public Infrastructure, Energy and Utilities, Domestic Transport, Information and Communications Technology, and Post, was invited to address UN water ministers, and water experts and other international agencies, and stakeholders, at the UN-Water Summit on Groundwater held at UNESCO, Paris, this week.He was the only minister from a small island developing state to address this UN conference. He extended his views to also embrace the concerns of his fellow ministers of the Caribbean SIDS, which all share similar groundwater supply…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, December 08, 2022 (SKNIS) – Government Ministers, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs and experts from regional and international organizations, gathered at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort on (December 08) to take part in the Women’s Empowerment Project’s International Forum organized by the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The International Forum was guided by the theme, “Towards a New Frontier: Promoting Sustainable Development in the Eastern Caribbean through Women’s Economic Empowerment.” The Republic of China (Taiwan) launched the Women’s Empowerment Project in 2021. It is designed to strengthen the economic empowerment of women by providing them with the resources…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, December 08, 2022 (SKNIS) – The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis continues to benefit from its longstanding relationship with the Government of Switzerland, with the latest contribution coming in the form of a financial donation to the Joseph N. France General Hospital. The Swiss Confederation, through the Honorary Consulate General in St. Kitts and Nevis made a donation of twenty thousand United States dollars (US$20,000) to the island’s main health institution on Thursday, December 8, 2022, during a brief ceremony at the hospital’s conference room. In making the symbolic presentation, Honorary Consul General of Switzerland, Mr. Ernest Amory said, “The…

CARIBPR WIRE, CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, Dec. 08, 2022: The head of Saint Lucia’s Citizenship by Investment Unit, Mc Claude Emmanuel, was in the United States of America recently for the 7th Annual Private Wealth Florida Forum. The invitation-only event is attended by private wealth and institutional investors, including wealth managers, corporate pensions, public pensions, insurance funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, health care organizations and private bankers. The event aims to bring together the investment management community for peer driven thought leadership experiences that provide a platform for education, business development and networking. Emmanuel was speaking to wealth managers on why Saint Lucia…

During the meetings of the Second Conference on Family Farming of the Enlarged MERCOSUR and the Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming, more than 200 participants agreed to work together to make progress in improving the rural world. Santiago de Chile, December 7 – In the presence of 10 ministers and deputy ministers, representatives of 24 countries, and 200 delegates, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with MERCOSUR, the Central American Integration System (SICA), government authorities and platforms of family farming organizations, held dialogues on the progress of the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, December 8th 2022 (Press Secretary’s Office)- Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew in a letter congratulated the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica and Leader of the Dominica Labour Party, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit on his recent victory at the polls on Wednesday 6th December 2022. Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew commended Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit and the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) on their “landslide victory at the polls, winning nineteen (19) of the twenty-one (21) seats in the Commonwealth of Dominica’s recent election”. In his letter Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew praised…

Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, December 8, 2022 (Press Secretary’s Office) – The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has approved the payment of a Citizenship by Investment (CBI) dividend to the citizens and residents of the Federation. The CBI dividend is a share of the profits and retained earnings received from the Citizenship by Investment Programme. The CBI dividend will be facilitated through the Saint Christopher and Nevis Social Security and will be distributed in two tiers or categories. The first category is the pensionable and pensioners and the second category is classified as those who are not yet pensionable. …