The UWI Open Campus to confer Honorary Degree on St Kitts and Nevis National
Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Tuesday, September 24, 2019 – The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Open Campus will confer an honorary degree on Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton, current Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis…
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Fisheries Ministers meet for 13th Council Meeting on Thursday and Friday in St Kitts and Nevis
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 (CRFM)—Caribbean Fisheries Ministers will assemble on Thursday and Friday of this week, from 13-14 June, at the Marriott Resort in Frigate Bay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, for the 13th Meeting of the Ministerial…
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Conclusions of the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 — The annual Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting gathered officials from 53 countries in Geneva, Switzerland on 19 May 2019, to discuss the acceleration of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Four of the six independent Member States of the OECS were…
Reconstruction of CBI Programme – A critical imperative for SKN
April 30th 2019 Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves in 2014 wrote an article on The Idea of Barbados and in it he explains why he believes Caribbean governments could learn from Barbados in searching for solutions to contemporary challenges facing the region. Gonsalves locates…
ECCB to issue world’s first blockchain-based digital currency
From ECCB The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) and the Barbados-based fintech company, Bitt Inc. (Bitt) have signed a contract to conduct a blockchain-issued Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot within the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). The watershed contract…
Public sector workers in St Kitts are better off today than they were yesterday
From gov.kn Friday, December 14th, 2018 – Discounted VAT Rate Day – marks the unprecedented third consecutive time that public sector workers have been paid a double salary at the end of the year. The Harris-led Team Unity Government has…
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Burst of 54 quakes felt in Leeward Islands
From Jamaica Observer PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies Saturday said that a burst of 54 earthquakes occurred north of St Kitts…
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Taiwan donates US$167,000 to Nevis to purchase hemodialysis machines
From Caribbean News Now CHARLESTOWN, Nevis (NIA) — Taiwan continues to make good on its promise to assist the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) in its quest to arrest and control chronic kidney disease on the island. On Tuesday, Tom Lee,…
Phillips says global anti-immigration policies a threat to Caribbean progress
From Jamaica Gleaner Opposition Leader and People’s National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips today warned that Caribbean progress was under threat from a rise in anti-immigration policies in rich countries. Addressing the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) 80th annual conference…
St Kitts-Nevis government blocks publication of IMF report
From Caribbean News Now WASHINGTON, USA — According to a statement published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the authorities in St Kitts and Nevis have blocked the publication of the latest IMF staff report and the related press release….
