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Basseterre: St. Kitts, Thursday, August 26th, 2021:​ Minister of Education, Honourable Jonel Powell, addressed the nation on Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 regarding the way forward for the 2021-2022 Academic year “As we at the Ministry of Education continue to chart the course for the new school year, we are 100 percent mindful that the school system will be commencing within an environment that is affected by over 200 active cases of the Coronavirus in theFederation. The Early Childhood sector has been hard hit by the current spread of the coronavirus and a number of public and private Early Childhood Centres have had close as a precautionary measure,” noted Minister Powell. He appealed to the philanthropic nature of stakeholders [parents and teachers], to become proactive in ensuring that schools remain physically open. He stated, that through vaccination and adhering to…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 25, 2021 (SKNIS): The manufacturing and export sectors in St. Kitts and Nevis are on the rebound as global economic activity picks up following the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, shared figures that show “signs of a strong comeback” as most manufacturing entities in the Federation resume operations.“Records from the Customs and Excise Department reveal that the dollar value of merchandise exports increased to $58.6 million for the period January to July 2021 from $53 million in 2020 for an increase of 10.6 percent,” Dr.…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 25, 2021 (SKNIS): The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has reaffirmed that it will not make the vaccination of citizens and residents against COVID-19 mandatory. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris during his monthly press conference of August 24, 2021. He said he wanted to make clear to all workers across the Federation the government’s position in relation to the matter. “Everyone in St. Kitts and Nevis has the protection of the law. The Constitution protects everyone, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and if there is anyone feeling aggrieved in any way there…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 25, 2021 (SKNIS): During the August 24, 2021, Press Conference of Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris, it was announced that testing is ongoing to verify whether the Delta COVID-19 variant is present in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. Prime Minister Harris further urged citizens and residents alike to get vaccinated and to adhere to the pharmaceutical and strict non-pharmaceutical measures in an effort to protect themselves. “Given the arrival of the Lambda COVID-19 variant and the prospect that other variants may have entered our Federation, we can expect surges in COVID-19 cases from time…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 25, 2021 (SKNIS): The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis is closely monitoring recent developments regarding a change in the employment status of some COVID-19 unvaccinated workers within the private sector and is very much concerned that the rights of both employees and employers are governed by the law of the land. Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, the Honourable Wendy Phipps, Minister of Labour, and Attorney-General, the Honourable Vincent Byron Jr., all weighed in on the matter on Tuesday (August 24, 2021) at the Prime Minister’s Monthly Press Conference. Attorney-General Byron Jr. summed it up…

ONE WAY STREETS• Losack Road• East Park Range• Victoria Road• The Street North of NHC between East Park Range and Wellington RoadTRAFFIC FLOW: Traffic will flow in one direction along the following streets:• Northwards along Victoria Road;• Westward along Losack Road;• Eastwards along the road north of the NHC;• Southwards along Park Range. PARKING RESTRICTIONS No parking will be permitted on the following streets:• Victoria Road – eastern side between Basseterre High and Losack Road;• Park Range – between the former Basseterre High School and Losack Road;• Lozack Road – between Victoria Road and Hart Street. PARKING:• The general public…

The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards (SKNBS) would like to inform the general public that the Nevis session of the European Union (EU) Labelling Requirements workshop has been postponed until September 02, 2021.The information sharing session will be held at the Department of Agriculture Conference Room at 1:30 p.m. on the mentioned date.The workshop’s goal is to teach the European Union’s stated and implied regulations, as well as the strategic importance of product labelling, information, and packaging. This meeting will be beneficial to any business owner/agroprocessor seeking information on the requirements to enter the European market.Interested persons are…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, August 25, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris has commended the hard working staff of the Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) and all other players for their hard and dedicated work that led to St. Kitts and Nevis’ Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme being ranked the best in the world in the 2021 CBI Index conducted by Professional Wealth Management – a magazine published by the prestigious Financial Times. Now in its fifth year, the CBI Index provides a comprehensive, data-driven analysis of the world’s active…

Buenos Aires, 24 August 2021 (IICA) – The technical assistance program promoted by Argentina and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) kicked off with a virtual seminar on electronic health certification designed to improve the production capacity of the countries of the Caribbean and to strengthen food and nutrition security. Civil servants, public sector professionals and private sector representatives from Argentina, Jamaica and Dominica participated in the event, exchanging experiences and discussing how to expand the implementation of ePhyto, an electronic sanitary certificate in XML format that contains all the same information as a paper document. This is the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 24, 2021 (SKNIS): Officials from the Department of Consumer Affairs will be featured on the popular government radio and television programme “Working for You” on Wednesday, August 25, 2021. The special guests will be Paul Queeley, Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs, and Trista Wattley-Stennett, Senior Consumer Affairs Officer. The discussion will focus on disclosure of price for products and services; damaged goods sold to consumers; return of electrical goods; and false misleading or deceptive representation, among other pertinent issues addressed by the Consumer Protection Bill, 2021, which had its first reading in the National Assembly…