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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…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 24, 2021 (SKNIS): Prime Minister, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, noted that the agriculture and fisheries sectors in St. Kitts and Nevis have significantly improved from January to June 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, due to the “targeted support provided to the sector.” “Crops, livestock, and fisheries are performing much better in 2021 relative to the same period in 2020. Over the period January to June 2021, crop and livestock combined recorded a 25 percent increase in production. The dollar value of crops and livestock produced was put at $5.5 million, an increase of…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 24, 2021 (SKNIS): The government’s stipend programme for families with a differently-abled individual has seen the approval of 119 applications. Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, updated the figures at his monthly press conference on Tuesday, August 24. The stipend is distributed every month up until the end of 2021. The initiative was introduced in July 2021 as part of a wide-ranging stimulus programme from the government to provide further economic relief from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Harris also announced on Tuesday that a grant of $15,000 was approved…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 24, 2021 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis’ additional income support programme that was implemented in July 2021 has received 3, 733 applications to date, said Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, during his monthly press conference on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at NEMA Conference Room. The programme was set up as a measure to bring relief to the people of St. Kitts and Nevis, especially the poor and vulnerable affected by COVID-19, “A total of 3,733 applications have been received by the Ministry of Finance as of 23rd August 2021. A total…