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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…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 24, 2021 (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, said major crimes within the Federation are trending downwards, while speaking at his monthly press conference on August 24 at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Headquarters. Prime Minister Harris said safety and security are fundamental to societal order, goodgovernance and democracy. Crime had gotten out of control under the former administration, he said. “Homicides had reached a high of 35 in 2011 and since assuming office, we have reorganized our security forces and enhanced manpower,” he said. “We devised and are implementing the first…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, August 24, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Health centers across St. Kitts and Nevis will begin the inoculation of persons with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines from Wednesday, September 01, 2021. The Federation received its first batch of 11,700 doses of the Pfizer vaccine from the Government of the United States of America on Thursday, August 11. “Thursday August 12, 202, was a very good day for the people of St. Kitts and Nevis in our fight against COVID-19. We received a donation of 11,700 doses of Pfizer vaccine. We took yet another…

A Tribute to Mr. Arthur L. Evelyn CSM, OBE, JP I wish to pay a most respectful tribute to the late Arthur L. Evelyn CSM, OBE, JP. I first interacted with the late Mr. Evelyn when he became a Member of the very first Nevis Island Administration in 1983, upon attainment of Independence. I was always aware of Mr. Evelyn’s humility and humanity and the respect which was accorded to him at all times. His was a life of service whether in the public or private sphere. He was an innovator wishing to ensure that what mattered was that service…

Basseterre: St. Kitts, Tuesday, August 24rd, 2021:​ Stakeholders in the Ministry of Education (MOE), participated in a virtual consultation session held Friday, August 20th, 2021,aimed at enlightening participants on the policies that will govern the MOE’s achievement of Policy goal two, Programmearea four (4) of the 2017-2021 Education Sector Plan (ESP). Dr. Tricia Esdaille, Senior. Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Education, gave an overview of the Career Pathway and Continuing Professional Development Framework for the Teaching Profession of St. Kitts and Nevis (CP/CPD). “Beginning in 2018, the Ministry of Education would have focused a large part of its work on fulfilling Policy Goal number two within the Sector Strategy. Policy Goal number two speaksspecifically to strengthening the quality and relevance ofeducation at all levels to improve learning outcomes. That Policy Goal has three programme areas, one of which is Professionalizing the Teaching Force…but also embedded and interrelated are two other programme areas…Curriculum and Assessment and Quality Relevant Teaching and Learning,” said Dr. Esdaille. “We’ve been working on these three programmeareas avidly…

CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, August 24, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — The Nevis Co-operative Credit Union (NCCU), the oldest such society in the Federation, on Monday August 23 paid glowing tribute to its stalwart pioneer, Mr Arthur Lionel Evelyn, at a funeral service that was held at the Elquemedo T. Willett Park in Charlestown, Nevis. “The Credit Union fraternity in Nevis, Saint Kitts and the wider Caribbean mourns the loss of a pioneer whose contribution to the advancement of the co-operative business model and the upliftment of the Nevisian people will forever be remembered and appreciated,” said General Manager of the NCCU, Mr Sydney Newton, as he…