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Effective 6 January 2021, the ECSRC approved the grant of an InvestmentAdviser Licence to Michael McDonald Millar of Barbados.This licence authorises Millar to advise people concerning investment insecurities; issue analyses or reports concerning specific securities and offerinvestment portfolio management services without holding property of the otherperson and on terms that preclude him from doing so.Millar is an experienced investment manager and the first Investment Adviser to belicensed by the Eastern Caribbean Securities Regulatory Commission to operate in theEastern Caribbean Securities Market (ECSM). Millar is a Chartered Financial Analystand a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. He also holds a Bachelor of ScienceDegree…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 11, 2021 (SKNIS): According to the Financial Times, which is an international daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (Sage) has stated that the Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine can be used by all adults, even the elderly, worldwide.Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Hazel Laws, reported this during her presentation at the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) Press Briefing on February 10, 2021.“The vaccine can be used by all people over the age of 18 years in all countries,” she…

An invitation to attend a livestock meeting is being extended to livestock farmers and livestock owners who are operating in the areas of: -Dieppe Bay through Saddlers to Brighton on Monday 22nd Feb, 2021 at 6 pm -Old Road through Sandy Point to St. Pauls on Tuesday 23rd Feb, 2021 at 6 pm -Challengers through Basseterre to Cayon including St. Peters on Wednesday 24th Feb, 2021 at 6 pm. Each meeting will be held in the large conference room at the Department of Agriculture, La Guerite. Please make a special effort to attend. See you there! Thanks in advance.–

Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 11, 2021 (SKNIS): Dr. Mathias Ofre, St. Kitts & Nevis National HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinator said that HIV/AIDS is not a gay disease because it does not discriminate with respect to a person’s sexual orientation. Dr. Ofre was at the time speaking on the radio and television show “Working for You” on February 10, 2021. “Straight individuals can get infected,” he said. “That’s why we said that having unprotected vaginal or anal sex, could predispose an individual to be infected. It is not just for the gay population.” The National HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinator said education about…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, February 11, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Understanding that tertiary level education makes one of the greatest contributions to the Federation’s overall growth and development, the Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris-led Team Unity administration remains resolute in its commitment to assist its citizens and residents to pursue and achieve a higher education. PrimeMinister Harris gave this reassurance when he addressed the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine Scholarship Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, February 10. At that ceremony, students of the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) and the Nevis Sixth Form College…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 11, 2021 (SKNIS): Thanks to the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine (RUSVM) Scholarships Awards Programme, 19 students, 17 from St. Kitts and two from Nevis, were awarded scholarships to pursue studies at the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) and the Nevis Sixth Form College.Four years ago, Ross University established the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine Scholarships Awards Programme and this was instituted to award academically deserving students, who have had a financial need that would otherwise have made it difficult for them to attend the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College or the Nevis Sixth Form College.Totalling…

 The Director of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), Magdy Martínez-Solimán, and the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, participated in a virtual meeting during which they agreed to develop a joint work agenda that focuses on Central America and some Caribbean countries, starting with Haiti. The main objective of the meeting was to learn about the roadmap for international cooperation of the Director of AECID, who took office in September 2020. Both institutions have a long history of cooperation that they hope to strengthen during this new period. “We agreed…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, February 11, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – At a ceremony held at its campus on Wednesday, February 10, the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine (RUSVM) awarded scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year to 19 students of the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College and the Nevis Sixth Form College to assist them in the pursuit of higher education. Theceremony was attended by Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris; Minister of Education, the Honourable Jonel Powell; Junior Minister of Education on Nevis, the Honourable Troy Liburd; faculty and staff of Ross University, including…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 11, 2020 (SKNIS): Officials from the National AIDS Secretariat in St. Kitts and Nevis are inviting persons to know their HIV status by attending the Operation Safe Streets, Safe Sheets at the Independence Square on Friday February 12 where there will be free Rapid HIV testing in order that participants will earn their lover’s license just in time for Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated globally on February 14 each year. Health Educator/Counsellor, Mrs Lucine Pemberton-Vaughan said “on this busy highway called love, accidents can and will happen, especially around this period where everyone is expressing love and so the National Aids Secretariat is committed to reducing and illuminating such accidents through Operation Safe Streets, Safe…