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Chelston Brathwaite, Director General Emeritus of The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)Manuel Otero, Director General of The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities of the economies of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Saint Lucia, and other small, tourism-dependent Caribbean countries. These economies typically must contend with a limited availability of arable land, small and often scattered populations, fragile natural environments, an energy import dependency, extreme vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters, as well as high rates of diet-related illnesses. In recent years, these countries have also experienced high…

April 26, 2021, Bridgetown, Barbados – As many persons and organizations prepared to usher in 2021 on Old Year’s Night, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), had commenced critical discussions with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in anticipation of the eruption of La Soufriere volcano. The discussions led to the development of The Volcano Eruption Preparedness and Emergency Response Protocols for Agriculture through a multi-step consultation process with the different departments within the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour, as…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 3, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Ahead of International Firefighters’ Day (IFFD) to be observed on Tuesday May 4, Acting Chief Fire Officer Mr Garfield Hodge on Saturday May 1 joined Prime Minister and Minister of National Security Dr the Hon Timothy Harris at the Sylvia Garnette Primary Health Care Facility in Tabernacle, where he urged young firefighters to step up to the plate and get vaccinated. In a bid to encourage more persons in his constituency to come forward to get vaccinated, Prime Minister Harris, who is the Area Parliamentary Representative for Constituency Number Seven (Bellevue to…

BASSETERRE (4th May, 2021): The Hon. Lindsay F.P. Grant, Minister of Tourism, Transport and Ports appeared on WSB-TV Atlanta’s Daily 2 for an interview with host Shannon Walshe.In the interview, Minister Grant and Walshe discussed some of the highlights visitors to St. Kitts can expect to see, like Brimstone Hill Fortress, the ongoing Five-Day Getaway promotion with deals from the Park Hyatt St. Kitts, St. Kitts Marriott and Four Seasons Resort Nevis, and the Federation’s safety and low COVID rates. The segment in partnership with WSB-TV Atlanta will serve to generate support for the non-stop Delta flights that will begin flying to St.…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 3, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris who led the country on Monday February 22 by being among the first to take the first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, will on Tuesday May 4 present himself for the second dose of the vaccine at the Sylvia Garnette Primary Health Care Facility in Tabernacle. “Tuesday at 2:00 pm I go to the Tabernacle Health Centre for my vaccine, second dose, with security heads,” said Prime Minister Harris in a brief statement released on Monday May 3. The statement came on the heels…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 03, 2021 (SKNIS): The Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Dame Susan Dougan GCMG, OBE, has thanked His Excellency Sir S.W. Tapley Seaton GCMG, CVO, QC, JP, LL. D, Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis, for a shipment of essential supplies that was contributed by Government House following the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano.The relief supplies were part of the first shipment sent by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 01, 2021) — The following is an address by Hon. Alexis Jeffers, Deputy Premier and Minister of Agriculture in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) to launch Agriculture Awareness Month 2021. Greetings fellow citizens and residents, The Ministry of Agriculture is once again happy to be able to observe another Agriculture Awareness Month. This year makes the 9th edition of this observance, and it is designed to bring about a sharper focus on the impact of agriculture on our community. Indeed, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there has been a renaissance of sorts as countries have paid greater…

BASSETERRE (30th April, 2021): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris announced a change to the travel requirements for those International Travelers, arriving by air, who have been fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 effective May 1, 2021. International travelers who are fully vaccinated are required to submit their official Vaccination Record Card when completing their travel authorization process at www.knatravelform.kn, in addition to their 72-hour RT-PCR test and other required arriving passenger documentation. Please see below the travel requirements for international air travelers effective May 1, 2021: A traveler is considered fully vaccinated when two weeks have passed since…

Completing his decade-long tenure at the helm of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), President Dr Wm Warren Smith said farewell to member countries and staff at a special Board of Directors meeting, followed by a staff function.During President Smith’s period in office, running from May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2021, he oversaw the response to two global crises that heavily impacted the Caribbean Region – the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis at the beginning of his first term and the Covid-19 pandemic at the end of his second. In between, CDB tackled a series of increasingly devastating storms…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 1, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — The latest edition of Prime Minister’s Monthly Health Walk, held on Saturday May 1, saw an impressive turnout of health conscious walk enthusiasts who joined Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris on the traditional route that took them from Bellevue to the Ottley’s hardcourts. “The Prime Minister’s Monthly Health Walk is an amazing event to take part in because with this type of activity it helps you to boost your immune system and also keep you healthy and fit,” said regular Prime Minister’s Health Walk participant, Dr Mathias Afortu-Ofre, at the…