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Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 11, 2023 (SKNIS): The Cable will provide fibre optic services for the Health Information System (HIS) as the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis continues to modernize and improve healthcare. Prime Minister and Minister of Health, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew, shared the update during a press engagement on Thursday (May 11, 2023). “The Cable has won the bid to build out our healthcare system with fibre optic cables,” stated Prime Minister Dr. Drew. “We are going to connect all the health institutions – the three hospitals and the health centres – and we want all our…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 11, 2023 (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew, has given his guarantee and made it pellucid that the “housing revolution” that his government is about to embark upon will have an over 90 percent pool of workers from St. Kitts and Nevis. Prime Minister Dr. Drew made those comments in a roundtable interview with media representatives on May 11, 2023, at the Koi Resort. “Nobody is going to come into St. Kitts and Nevis building houses for our people and our people are not the contractors,” he said. “Our people…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 11, 2023 (SKNIS): The functional capabilities of blind or partially-sighted individuals within St. Kitts and Nevis were spotlighted on Wednesday (May 10, 2023) as officials seek to raise awareness about blindness and the rights of impacted people. On this week’s edition of the radio and television programme InFocus, Rockliffe Bowen, President of the St. Kitts Society for the Blind, and Jurene Johnson, the parent of 15-year-old visually impaired twin boys, shared their personal experiences and called on society to open their eyes on what blind people can do. Mr. Bowen said that he is married and is gainfully employed,…

We would like to share with you some highlights from the recent regular meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), during which the Caribbean Ministers responsible for Fisheries issued 32 resolutions. Some key areas discussed were: fisheries management; illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and fisheries crime; climate change and ocean acidification;imbalances in international trade; Sargassum influxes; andthe emerging Blue Economy ———————- Key actions: The Ministers adopted the Protocol to the Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy on Aquatic Foods as a Strategic Resource for Food and Nutrition Security—the third protocol adopted under the regional fisheries policy.The Fisheries Ministers…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, May 11, 2023 (SKNIS) – The Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Basseterre facilitated the handing over of a significant donation of medical equipment to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Ageing and Disabilities during a brief ceremony held at the JNF General Hospital today, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Minister of Youth Empowerment, Ageing and Disabilities, Hon. Isalean Phillip The donation was made by the Cao Zhong Zhi Foundation, a charity group founded by Mr. Cao and his wife in Taiwan in 1977. The donation includes eighty (80) adult wheelchairs, seventeen…

BASSETERRE (11th May, 2023): The St. Kitts Music Festival Committee has announced that telecommunications provider Digicel will once again serve as Gold Sponsor of the St. Kitts Music Festival which is celebrating its 25th anniversary from June 22nd to June 24th, 2023.Allister Williams, the Chairman of the St. Kitts Music Festival’s Executive Committee, expressed his excitement to partner with Digicel to create an event that exceeds all expectations, saying that the festival is open to new ideas and eager to find more ways to work together.Digicel’s Marketing Executive, Ashma Chaseau, congratulated the St. Kitts Music Festival on its milestone anniversary and…

By Mario Lubetkin, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Latin Americaand the Caribbean According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises, in 2022, almost 258 million people in 58countries faced the highest levels of acute food insecurity, which includes the categories of”Crisis”, “Emergency”, and “Catastrophe”, meaning that it can range from malnutrition to the riskof death due to lack of food. The number of acutely food-insecure people in Latin America and the Caribbean reached 17.8million. Haiti reports one of the most challenging situations, with 4.72 million people affected,representing 26% of the region’s total. This situation has led the affected…

 Today is a demonstration that the European Union is “walking the talk”.  Last October, here in Barbados we unveiled our new partnershipframework with the region, anchored on a stronger policy and politicaldialogue and on the Global Gateway. Climate change is obviously a centraltheme in this framework, captured in the EU-Caribbean Partnership for aGreen Deal.  At the time, Euroclima was presented as the new flagship programme thatwould turn that political commitment into an operational reality.  Today, a few months later, we are telling our Caribbean partners that we arestarting to implement. In these months, a lot of…

In commemorating Europe Day, the European Union (EU) officially launched its €35-million climateaction programme Euroclima in the Caribbean region. Today’s launch follows October’s Ministerialmeeting, where EU Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen and Caribbean Ministers agreed to put just greentransition at the core of the partnership between the EU and the Caribbean region. The launch tookplace at Walkers Reserve, an eco-forest located on the east coast of the country, which is also acentre for regenerative agriculture, further highlighting the focus and commitments of Euroclima. Euroclima is the EU’s flagship programme for green action to all 33 countries across Latin Americaand the Caribbean (LAC)…

The Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force (RSCNPF) is investigating thecircumstances that led to an overseas visitor’s untimely demise at a local hotel. Theunfortunate incident occurred around 8PM on May 9th, 2023. Emergency services (EMS) received a call for assistance for Gary Welch, an elderlyCaucasian man who had fallen down some stairs to the hotel’s ground floor. Mr. Welch, who arrived earlier that day on vacation with his family, lost his balance whileascending the stairs from the first floor. Both EMS and the RSCNPF responded to thescene and Mr. Welch was promptly transported to the Joseph N. France GeneralHospital…