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Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 9, 2023 (SKNIS): The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) wants greater oversight of the process of who is being appointed to Banking Boards and Boards of other financial institutions. Governor of the ECCB, Dr. Timothy Antoine, has commended the Dr. Terrance Drew-led administration for its tabling of two banking bills, namely, the Banking (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Bill to Amend the ECCB Agreement in the National Assembly on March 7, 2023, which will help to protect the financial system. While addressing media practitioners in St. Kitts and Nevis as part of the Bank’s 2023 Country…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 9, 2023 (Department of Statistics): The Department within the Ministry of Sustainable Development is concluding the field (data collection) activities for the Population and Housing Census 2021. This census is a vital source of information on the current population count and characteristics – including the standard of living, of the residents of St. Kitts and Nevis. Further, the information gathered is essential for proper strategic policy and planning decision-making in areas such as housing, health care and education, and in general to promote the sustainable economic growth and development of our country. To those persons/households who have…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 9, 2023 (SKNIS): The Public Works Department (PWD) on St. Kitts is currently in the drafting stage for the St. Peter’s Road Rehabilitation Project slated to commence later this year.Minister of Public Infrastructure, the Honourable Konris Maynard stated in the National Assembly on March 7th that “In December, Parliament authorized seven (7) million dollars for this road project, but it may cost a little more.”“It is important to note that it was not a part of the previous island main road project much to the dismay of the current representative and Prime Minister and though there is now…

Washington, D.C., 9 March 2023 (PAHO) – As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year in the Region of the Americas, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, has called on countries to strengthen surveillance and bridge gaps in vaccination coverage to end the emergency and better prepare for future health crises. Over the past three years, the Americas had over 190.3 million COVID-19 cases and over 2.9 million deaths, accounting for 25% and 43% of the global total respectively. “The pandemic underscored that no country or organization in the world was fully prepared for the impact of this pandemic,” Dr Barbosa…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 09, 2023 (SKNIS): Services for women and children who experience domestic or gender-based violence will benefit from a newly updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis and the Garden of Rebirth. The new MOU was signed on Wednesday, March 08, 2023, during a brief ceremony at the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Ageing and Disabilities housed in The Cable Building on Cayon Street. It lays out the terms of the partnership between the two parties. The signing was symbolically done on International Women’s Day. Minister of State responsible for Gender Affairs, the…

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice delivered its judgment in Ellis Richards & Ors. v The State of Trinidad and Tobago AGOJ2021/001, a case in its Original Jurisdiction. Deciding a preliminary point raised at the case management stage, the CCJ dismissed the majority of the claims brought by policyholders of British American Insurance Company Limited who alleged that Trinidad and Tobago had breached various articles of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas in the aftermath of the collapse of Trinidad and Tobago conglomerate, CL Financial. The Claimants, who were nationals of and institutions established in Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada, argued that the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 8, 2023 (SKNIS): InterCaribbean Airways Ltd, a Turks and Caicos-based airline, is set to make its inaugural flight to the Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw International Airport in Basseterre, St. Kitts, on Sunday, March 12, 2023.In a statement made in the National Assembly on March 7, 2023, Minister of Tourism, International Transport and Civil Aviation, the Honourable Marsha Henderson, said that she is confident that InterCaribbean Airways will boost intra-regional travel and will affect the second-largest source market of St. Kitts and Nevis in a positive way.“With the introduction of this flight, we are hopeful that we will…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 8, 2023 (SKNIS): The Policy and Labour Relations Unit in the Department of Labour will make a Cabinet submission recommending an increase in the minimum wage, said Honourable Marsha Henderson, Minister of Employment and Labour, during her presentation at the sitting of National Assembly on March 7, 2023.“The last administration would have put together a minimum wage advisory committee in 2018 and they would have submitted a report to the government in 2019,” Minister Henderson.“The last time the minimum wage increased was in 2014 under a Labour-led Administration and I can report that the next time…

Dr. Norgen Wilson Appointed Non-Resident Ambassador-Designate to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, March 8, 2023 [Press Secretary, PMO]: Dr. Norgen Wilson has been recently appointed as the non-resident Ambassador-Designate to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and is scheduled to present his Letter of Credentials to the President of Venezuela, H.E. Nicolás Maduro Moros, on March 13, 2023.As Ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Dr. Wilson will be tasked to represent and protect the interests of the Government of St Kitts and Nevis, coordinate the implementation of the foreign policy priorities of the Federation, promote and maintain…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 7th, 2023 [Ministry of Health]: At a brief ceremony on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, held at the Maternity Ward of the Joseph N France General Hospital, a plaque recognizing the institution’s achievement of completing the Baby Friendly Initiative certification process was unveiled.The ceremony, attended by Dr. Amilia Del Riego, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, along with her staff, was the culmination of a process that qualifies the JNF General Hospital as only the third hospital in the region to achieve the status of…