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September 01, 2021 It is indeed with great pleasure that I extend heartfelt congratulations to you Atiba Harris on being elected the new President of the St. Kitts and Nevis Football Association (SKNFA) during Sunday (29th August) night’s Executive Committee elections. Atiba, your convincing victory is a strong and clear sign that your message of enhancing St. Kitts and Nevis football and helping to move the sport forward truly resonated with the football fraternity in our beloved Federation. I marvel at the fact that you were able to achieve this remarkable feat at the youthful age of 36. You now…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 1, 2021 (SKNIS): Officials from the National Disaster Management Committee will be featured on the popular government radio and television programme “Working for You” on Wednesday, September 1, 2021. The special guests will be Dr. Eric Browne, representative of the Environment Sub-Committee, and Kervyn Lloyd, representative of the Foreign Assistance Sub-Committee. Areas for discussion will include developing strategies and plans that protect the environment during disasters; designing an environmental response plan in disasters and designing procedures for requesting and receiving foreign assistance as a result of a disaster in keeping with CDEMA’s Regional Coordination Plan and…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 31, 2021 (SKNIS): In July 2011, the International Coordination Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme approved the St. Mary’s Biosphere Reserve (SMBR) in St. Kitts and Nevis. The UNESCO St. Mary’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Committee has undertaken the task of cleaning up the Cayon River, Hermitage Estate, and the Hermitage and Keys Bay areas.On August 27, 2021, MAB assessed the Cayon River Ghaut in an effort to further the work being done by the SMBR in relation to biodiversity, climate protection, and securing cultural heritage. During a recent interview, the Project…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 31, 2021 (SKNIS): With the recent arrival of the first batch of 11,700 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, children over the age of 12 years old can now be vaccinated against the deadly virus. Minister of Education, the Hon. Jonel Powell, during his remarks at the virtual opening ceremony for the 2021-2022 school year, urged all persons to support the vaccination efforts by the government to mitigate the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. “Our schools must open to admit our students for face-to-face instruction.  We must put structure, plans,…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 31, 2021 (SKNIS): As schools across the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis prepare to welcome students back for the 2021-2022 academic year, Minister of Education, the Hon. Jonel Powell, during the virtual opening ceremony, stated that the Ministry of Education continues its confidence in teachers and administrators in the education process.  He also outlined a number of new projects that will come on stream for the 2021-2022 school year. “It has become the responsibility of the State to make provisions for our children to receive a quality education and training that would prepare and equip our children…

San Jose, 31 August 2021 (IICA). Phillip “Chip” Councell, a farmer from the United States, will receive the “Soul of Rurality” award, bestowed on Leaders of Rurality in the Americas by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). The award is part of an initiative by the specialized agency in rural and agricultural development to recognize the men and women who are leaving their mark and making a difference in the rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. Councell will receive the award for his innovative initiatives that work to raise awareness about the importance of agriculture and how it relates to…

San Jose, 31 August 2021 (IICA) – UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed, will participate on 1 September in the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas, in which the ministers of 33 countries will discuss the Hemisphere’s consensus ahead of the upcoming Food Systems Summit, the emergence of new plagues and diseases that threaten agricultural trade, and the sector’s strategic role in post-Covid-19 economic recovery.This will be the second contact in just a few short weeks between the UN Deputy Secretary-General and the ministers of Agriculture of the Americas, who received the top official last month in Rome on occasion of…

San Jose, 31 August 2021 (IICA). The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) launchedIICA 3D, a web platform to exhibit all of the projects under its open-door policy, based on innovative, digital technical cooperation that brings it closer to its beneficiaries and counterparts and that aims to promote agriculture and rural development in the Americas. On the eve of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2021, which will take place virtually on 1-2 September, the Institute has revealed to its users the details of the IICA open doors Master Plan, with an emphasis on the projects developed at its…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, August 31, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The Ministry of Health is set to commence the administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from tomorrow, Wednesday, September 01, 2021. This was confirmed by Minister of Health, the Honourable Akilah Byron-Nisbett in an interview earlier today (August 31), in which she stated that the ministry has completed all its necessary preparatory work, including the staging of a number of training sessions with nurses who will be administering the vaccine. “We have been hosting quite a number of training sessions with our nurses to get them prepared…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, August 31, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – There will be no airing of the popular virtual forum Leadership Matters with Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris tonight (Tuesday, August 31). The programme is expected to resume within the next two weeks on Tuesday, September 14 at its regular time of 8:00pm. Leadership Matters has grown significantly since its launch in 2020 as week after week, Prime Minister Harris, supported by competent authorities, leads the discussion on the way forward for St. Kitts and Nevis.