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August 26, 2021, CASTRIES, Saint Lucia – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has promised closer collaboration with the Government of Saint Lucia to facilitate economic recovery and build resilience as the country navigates the COVID-19 pandemic and other development challenges.The commitment comes following the first official meeting between CDB President Dr Gene Leon and Saint Lucia’s newly elected Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre and members of his Cabinet at the Office of the Prime Minister in Castries today.The discussions focused on deepening the longstanding partnership between the Bank and the Saint Lucian Government to achieve key development priorities. The dialogue…

September 16, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has today launched a series of training workshops to enhance the resource mobilisation skills of public officials responsible for accounting and reporting. The training covers financial development topics and targets municipal officers and policy makers from 50 municipalities in the Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.The workshops are part of CDB’s regional project on capacity building in municipal finance, which is expected to increase the effectiveness of the expenditure of the targeted municipalities while taking the specific needs of marginalised groups and environmental factors into…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 22, 2021 (SKNIS): Officials within the Counselling Department in St. Kitts revealed that the institution will be undergoing a rebranding process in order to broaden the scope of practice and better serve the general public. “There is a broad scope change to what we do and so even though people see the National Counselling Centre in a very limited way we are rebranding so people can see the work that we actually do and looking at ways that we can deliver our services so that our resources are being properly utilized,” said the Deputy Director within the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 22, 2021 (SKNIS): Michele de la Coudray-Blake, Director of the Counselling Department in St. Kitts, said that the institution offers a wide range of services for the general public. During the September 22 edition of Working for You, Director de la Coudray-Blake said that the department is engaged in a lot of things. However, before touching on the services, she spoke briefly to the shift in concepts as to what mental health really is. “The fact is there has been a shift around how people see counselling and mental health services and that shift has come…because one,…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 22, 2021 (SKNIS): Parents facing challenging situations with their children, particularly during the teenage years, are strongly encouraged to seek assistance from the Counselling Department. The Counselling Department has a successful programme dubbed Family Matters that has helped many families to resolve conflicts. Director Michele de la Coudray-Blake described the purpose of the programme as helping to make families work. Mrs de la Coudray-Blake and other members of her team appeared on Wednesday’s (September 22, 2021) edition of the radio and television programme Working for You. They discussed methods of conflict resolution within the family, strengthening family structures, and…

Equally important to the Policing that’s visible to the public, is the type of Policing that takes place behind the scenes like collecting and analysing data. This job falls primarily in the hands of the staff of the Local Intelligence Office (LIO). The information they generate – such as the trends in crimes being committed – directly help with the decision-making process at the highest level in the Police Force. Head of the LIO, Sergeant Winston Thompson, is the special guest on “Policing With You” on Thursday, September 23, 2021. He joins host, Sergeant Treveron Richards, to discuss how the LIO contributes…

Basseterre- 22nd September, 2021 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs): On Tuesday 21st September, 2021, in New York, the Honourable Mark Brantley, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis signed a Joint Communique with the Arab Republic of Egypt establishing diplomatic relations. In said communiqué, both countries pledged to develop mutually beneficial trade, social, economic, and cultural ties in the interest of strengthening peace and international cooperation. During the brief signing ceremony, Foreign Minister Brantley and his Egyptian counterpart, His Excellency Sameh Shoukry, pledged deepened partnership and solidarity between Kittitians and Nevisians and the Egyptian people and to exploit our historical and…

September 21st – 22nd, 2021 Basseterre, St. Kitts, (Tuesday, 21st September 2021) – The Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, in collaboration with the World Trade Organization (WTO), the CARICOM Secretariat and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), will be conducting a National Workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) and implementation matters. This workshop will be held virtually via Zoom on September 21st – 22nd, 2021, Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. The objective of the two-day workshop is to promote capacity building among the pertinent stakeholders while building awareness in efforts…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, September 22, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The Ministry of Finance has completed the necessary work and instructions have been given by the Accountant General to commence the processing of funds totaling $2.2 million to be paid to approved applicants under the Income Support Programme. This means that by the end of the work day today, Wednesday, September 22, more than two thousand (2,000) applicants would have received their second installment of the $1,000 monthly stipend as part of the Income Support Programme, which is one of the main components of the…

Clockwise from left: President Mr Calvin Farrell, Vice President Mr Simeon Liburd, Member Dr Marc Williams, Treasurer Mr Keithley Blanchette, Member Mr Steve Gilbert, PRO Mr Allington Berridge, Secretary Mrs Octavia Huggins-Sewell.