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Dear Stakeholders, Please note the following cruise schedule from Sunday 14th November to Saturday 20th November, 2021: Sunday 14th November, 2021: No Ship Monday 15th November, 2021: Britannia- Port Zante Tuesday 16th November, 2021: Aida Perla – Port ZanteExplorer of the Seas- Port ZanteCelebrity Equinox- Port Zante Wednesday 17th November, 2021: Celebrity Constellation – Port ZanteRotterdam – Port Zante Thursday 18th November, 2021: Allure of the Seas – Port Zante Friday 19th November, 2021: Celebrity Silhouette- Port ZanteSeabourn Odyssey- South Friar’s Bay Saturday 20th November, 2021: Silver Whisper- Port Zante

Dear Stakeholders, Please note the Port Zante fencing will be erected on Sunday 14th November, 2021, and will remain in place until the departure of the cruise ship, Celebrity Millennium, at 5pm Sunday 21st November, 2021. The General Public will be permitted to access Port Zante daily from Monday 15th to Sunday 21st November, 2021after the cruise vessels have departed. Access points for entrance into Port Zante after cruise ship departures are: Parking lot closest to the Chop Shop.Parking lot by the Food Court.Parking lot that is located behind the Sweet Cane Restaurant.Parking lot by the round-a-bout closest to Sweet Cane Restaurant.Port Zante…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 13 November 2021 – On Saturday, Gatorade ambassador Usain Bolt, one of the greatest athletes of all time, with 11 world champion titles and 8 Olympic gold medals, spent the day at Expo 2020 Dubai, driving fans from across Dubai. By bringing Usain Bolt to Dubai, Gatorade highlights its ongoing commitment to inspire the next generations of athletes on their path to greatness while also demonstrating PepsiCo’s vision of a healthier world, ensuring sports, health and wellbeing is inclusive and accessible to all. Usain Bolt headlined the Family Run, encouraging everyone to run for a good cause. Free and open to…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 13, 2021 (SKNIS): Eleven deserving students from each of the public high schools in the Federation were recipients of the 2020-2021 Susanna Lee High School Scholarship Award, under the umbrella of the St. Christopher and Nevis Social Security Board Scholarship Programme. The students were inducted into the programme on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at a ceremony held at the Social Security Board Room. In addition to the new inductees, eight fifth form graduates, who would have been inducted into the programme while in first form, were also awarded scholarships to continue pursuing their tertiary education. Minister…

President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Gene Leon visits the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer to discuss new areas of cooperation in the Caribbean. Visit highlights key achievements during the partnership between the two institutions following four decades of cooperation. At COP26 in Glasgow, CDB and EIB underlined support for climate action and resilience in the Caribbean, including US$200 million in concessional finance for climate projects. November 12, 2021, KIRCHBERG, Luxembourg/BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Gene Leon visited the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the first time, following a…

The Council of Ministers of CARIFORUM wishes to put on record, the Region’s concerns with a number of ‘findings’ of the Study commissioned by the European Commission, the “Ex-post Evaluation of the EPA between the EU and its Member States and the CARIFORUM Member States”. As a region, we are particularly troubled that in spite of the detailed concerns raised by our senior officials in writing, this document remains in the public sphere, including on the official site of our partner under this Agreement. It is being regarded by some as an accurate assessment of the operation of the Agreement. The Report claims that the objective of the evaluation was…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 12, 2021 (SKNIS): The Department of Youth Empowerment continues the tradition of staging a number of environmental activities this month, as St. Kitts and Nevis celebrates Youth Month 2021. This weekend (November 13 and 14) will see cleanup activities at three locations in St. Kitts. On Saturday, an in-water cleanup will take place at Major’s Bay with support from the Volunteer Corps, Kenneth’s Dive Centre and the Department of Marine Resources. The Ministry of Tourism will also host a beach cleanup on that same day at Reggae Beach. The Department of Youth Empowerment will send a contingent from the…

Paris, France, November 12, 2021: St. Kitts and Nevis ranks as one of the most active English-speaking Caribbean states with a prominent role in a range of UNESCO activities accomplished on the ground. That was the consistent message heard by the Hon. Jonel Powell, Minister of Education, Youth Empowerment, Sport & Culture, during a series of high-level meetings with the UNESCO Secretariat on the fringes of his attendance at the 41st session of the UNESCO General Conference, held in Paris this week. Minister Powell represented the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis at this biennial ministerial-level conference hosted by the UN…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, November 12, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Earlier today (Friday, November 12), Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, visited the Edgar T. Morris Primary School where he awarded thirty-seven (37) students of that institution, as well as the Estridge Primary School with scholarships valued at EC$500. The monetary assistance to the students was presented as part of Prime Minister Harris’ 18th Annual Help-a-Child Programme – an initiative that awards primary school children who demonstrate academic potential. Friday’s cheque presentations followed similar donations that took place on Thursday, November 11, at the Joshua…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 12, 2021 (SKNIS): The Ministry of Agriculture is assisting livestock farmers to overcome the recent animal feed shortages by offering a discounted price on supplies sold at the department. During the November 10, 2021, Sitting of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly, Honourable Alexis Jeffers, Minister of Agriculture, gave some insights into this new farmers’ assistance initiative. “We are assisting our farmers through the reduction of the price of feed from the 5th of November all the way down to the 31st of December. This is to help them to recover some of the losses that they would have…