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Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 5, 2021 (SKNIS): Parliamentary Representative for Constituency #4, The Honourable Lindsay Grant, supported the Bill shortly entitled the Jury (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was passed into law at the sitting of the National Assembly on March 4, 2021.Minister Grant said that the Bill is to “facilitate the criminal procedure rules which are to come on board very shortly.”“I must say Mr. Speaker that the amendment that we seek to make with respect to the Jury Act is really very late in coming,” he said.He continued, “This is because nearly all our Jury Acts within the Eastern Caribbean…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, March 4, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — St. Kitts and Nevis is one of the very few countries in the world that have put in place measures which have successfully contained the spread of Covid-19, but the Ministry of Health is assuring that the success is not at the expense of government’s efforts in eradicating non-communicable diseases. “If I have Covid-19, I get into your space, you get Covid-19,” observed Minister of Health the Hon Akilah Byron-Nisbett. “You can get sick, you can die. It is the measures that we are taking, wearing our masks, and social distancing is what…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 05, 2021 (SKNIS): The Criminal Procedures (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was successfully passed on March 4, 2021, during the Sitting of Parliament, received support from the Honourable Jonel Powell, Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture.“This Bill forms part of a suite of three bills which need an amendment in order to facilitate the conferment of powers of the Chief Justice to establish rules, criminal procedure rules to be exercised within the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court,” said Minister Powell.Minister Powell expressed that in his capacity as an Attorney-at-Law, he appreciates the rules that are outlined in the…

Bridgetown, Barbados March 4, 2021 – The CDEMA Coordinating Unit has officially deployed Superintendent Sylvan McIntyre of Grenada to assist authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines with the effusive eruption at the La Soufriere Volcano. Commencing March 1, 2021, Superintendent McIntyre will spend six weeks supporting the national disaster office with the ongoing volcano crisis under the Regional Response Mechanism (RRM). Superintendent McIntyre looks forward to a successful intervention as he represents the CARICOM Operational Support Team (COST) of CDEMA through his wealth of expertise. He said, “I feel first and foremost humbled to be recognised as one of…

March 5, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A transition to paperless operations has started at the Port of Bridgetown, Barbados with the commencement of a European Union (EU) funded project. The transformation will introduce a Port Community System (PCS), an automated online platform which will integrate users in the public and private sector and reduce logistics costs for the port’s main stakeholders.The system will simplify many complex manual processes related to arriving and departing cargo at the Port, increasing overall efficiency. Daniel Best, Director Projects Department at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) announced the initiative at a launch on March 3 stating that “Barbados’ small open economy will…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 05, 2021 (SKNIS): The Team Unity Cabinet of Ministers met on Monday, March 01, 2021, at the Ministry of Finance Conference Room, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris. Several issues affecting the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis were deliberated on. Cabinet began after the chair and several members of Cabinet had attended the funeral service for Beatrice Llewellyn Lam, and Cabinet recorded its condolences to her children and extended family. The Chair of the Cabinet, Ministers of Health and Foreign Affairs, other officials from the Ministry of Health, and members of…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, March 05, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – With more than two thousand (2,000) persons vaccinated against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) at the end of day on Wednesday March 03, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris said it is clear that the Government’s public education programme on the importance of taking the vaccination jab is resonating well with citizens and residents across St. Kitts and Nevis. Ina statement read during Thursday’s (March 04) Sitting of the National Assembly, Prime Minister Harris said he was encouraged by the significant increases in the…

PRESS RELEASEOn Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021, His Excellency The Governor-General Sir S. W. Tapley Seaton GCMG, CVO, QC, JP, LL.D. was administered with his first dose of the Oxford Astra Zeneca Covid 19 Vaccine. His Excellency has reported that he is grateful that he has had no after effects from the said vaccine.Also receiving their vaccination at the same time were the sister of the Governor-General Mrs. Marguerite Foreman JP, Inspector Alphonso Hendrickson, and Major Lynn Wilkin.His Excellency wishes to commend the professionalism of Nurse Rhonda Lowry-Robinson, Deputy Coordinator of Community Health Services and Ms. Teshelle Bridgewater, Enrolled Nursing Assistant…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 04, 2021 (SKNIS): Three Bills, aimed at strengthening the judicial process in St. Kitts and Nevis, were approved by the Federal Parliament and successfully passed on Thursday, March 04, 2021.These include the Magistrates Code of Procedure (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which is a Bill to amend the Magistrate’s Code of Procedures Act, Cap 3.17; the Criminal Procedures (Amendment) Bill, 2021, a Bill to amend the Criminal Procedure Act, Cap 4.06, and the Jury (Amendment) Bill, 2021, a Bill to amend the Jury Act, Cap 3.15“They are all meant to lay the framework for the introduction of criminal procedure…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 04, 2021 (SKNIS): The effects of COVID-19 are felt globally by all sectors of society. The pandemic has deepened many pre-existing inequalities within societies such as those that are gender-based. Within the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis, women are currently facing the negative effects affiliated with the COVID-19 pandemic.During the March 03rd edition of ‘Working for You’ Professor Jeune Guishard-Pine, OBE, representing Business and Professional Women (BPW), stated “in most societies across the globe, systems are unequal in relation to the access they give to women and men – that really is the underpinning of the inequality…