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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, July 29, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Friday, July 30 will see the disbursement of the first set of monies to qualified persons who applied for assistance under the Income Support Programme, fuel subsidy for passenger bus operators, and to families with children living with disabilities — programmes introduced as part of the Government’s far-reaching second stimulus package.Thesecond stimulus programme, which was announced earlier this month by Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, is designed to help the less fortunate better cope with the financial hardship…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 28, 2021 (SKNIS): Major Kayode Sutton, Chair of the Search, Rescue and Initial Clearance Sub-committee in The St. Kitts and Nevis National Disaster Plan prepared by The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said that search and rescue teams in St. Kitts and Nevis are exposed to several training opportunities to learn new techniques and advance their capabilities.“We coordinate local training, we coordinate training within the Defence Force because we have individuals within the Defence Force who have been adequately trained in such capacity,” said Major Sutton during his July 28 appearance on Working for You. “We…

The Celebrity Summit will not make their scheduled call to St. Kitts on Thursday 29th July, 2021 at Port Zante. Please note the following cruise schedule is subject to change due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please see the current schedule below:Friday 30th July, 2021 Seabourn Odyssey Thursday 5th August, 2021 Seabourn Odyssey Friday 13th August, 2021: Seabourn Odyssey Thursday 19th August, 2021: Seabourn Odyssey Friday 27th August, 2021: Seabourn Odyssey

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 29, 2021 (SKNIS): Provisions are being made to several stalls at the Basseterre Public Market to accommodate fisherfolk. On the July 27 edition of Leadership Matters, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Ron Dublin-Collins, noted that while the Basseterre Fisheries Complex was established by the government as a medium for buying and selling local fish, alternative avenues are necessary. “We did make provisions very early for part of the meat stall to be converted into stalls to provide for fish vendors to ply their trade,” he stated. “We have reviewed that and recognized that there…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 29, 2021 (SKNIS):The transformation of Basseterre into a welcoming and modern city is well on the way following the implementation of several government projects and programmes. The latest initiative is the restructuring of street vending into a more organized and safer activity. “This is about a vision for Basseterre, a vision to provide a beautiful, vibrant, organized and welcoming environment in our capital city where the entrepreneurial spirit can flourish and persons who visit have long-lasting memories of what Basseterre has to offer,” said Austin Farier, Chair of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Street Vending, during his…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 29, 2021 (SKNIS): Superintendent of Police, Cromwell Henry, noted that the continued adherence of citizens and residents in St. Kitts and Nevis to the COVID-19 health and safety protocols is paying dividends. In May, health authorities instituted several measures designed to break the second wave of the deadly virus as a result of community spread. The measures included imposing curfews, suspending social events and mass gatherings, telecommuting (or working remotely) where possible, restricting in-house dining, and enforcing the non-pharmaceutical measures including wearing facemasks, and maintaining physical and social distance. Superintendent Henry highlighted the impact of these…

July 28, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Safer seaports and wider maritime spaces in the Eastern Caribbean are anticipated once the Regional and National Maritime Security Strategies currently being formulated by the Regional Security System (RSS) are implemented. The strategy development is being funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the RSS, with technical support from the Organisation of American States (OAS). It is intended to increase coordinated action at marine ports and within the wider maritime boundaries in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines…

July 28, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Work from 25 visual artists from across the Caribbean is currently on display in a virtual Visual Arts Biennial, the culmination of a recent accelerator programme funded by the Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF) of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). CDB awarded over US$ 16,000 in grant funding to support the artists’ participation in the I.C.E. (Incubator for Collaborative Expression) Caribbean, a virtual accelerator supported by CIIF in collaboration with Animae Caribe between April 7 to May 6, 2021. The accelerator was supported under CIIF’s Improved Competitiveness of MSMEs (ICM) Grant Stream.…

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has extended congratulations to Ms. Flora Duffy of Bermuda who won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the women’s individual Triathlon event. The congratulatory message reads: “On behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) I offer heartiest congratulations to Ms. Flora Duffy of Bermuda on her spectacular achievement of winning a gold medal in the Triathlon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Ms. Duffy’s inspirational victory in that arduous event is yet another example of Caribbean excellence and further evidence of the ability of small states like ours to compete and be successful in the global arena.”

Rome, 28 July 2021 (IICA). The countries of the Americas gave a strong display of unity in the context of the global debate on the transformation of agri-food systems, demanding that their voice be heard and their agreements fully incorporated into the ongoing preliminary discussions.The ministers of agriculture and other high-level officials of 33 countries in the Hemisphere met to emphasize the region’s role as guarantor of global food security and jointly presented to the world the document entitled “On the road to the United Nations Food Systems Summit: Key messages from the perspective of agriculture in the Americas”.The important event…