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UN Women Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean made the call on her three-country Caribbean mission to Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago With the glaring gap in financing for women-owned enterprises (only 22% of impact investing in Latin America and the Caribbean for women-founded businesses), burgeoning responsibilities of care for children and the elderly because of COVID-19 school closures and movement restriction, forcing women out of the formal economy, UN Women is focused on working with its development partners to prevent women and their families from falling into poverty. On her inaugural mission to the Caribbean, UN…

Consortium of Banks to acquire the banking operations of CIBC FirstCaribbean in Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (12 October 2021): Today, a Consortium of leading Banks in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the branches and banking operations of CIBC FirstCaribbean in Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The agreement executed on 12 October 2021 is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. Commenting on the transaction, Consortium Lead, and…

19th October, 2021 – BASSETERRE (NEMA): The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is once again collaborating with the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA-BHA) to conduct a Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis Workshop on St. Kitts. The training is being conducted by local Facilitators Terry Morris and Livingston Pemberton, as part of the on-going arrangement between the two agencies and in support of NEMA’s disaster management mandate. Messrs. Pemberton and Morris are both certified by OFDA and remain a vital component of that agency’s regional resource base. The three-day event, which is taking place at NEMA HQ, Lime Kiln,…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 19, 2021 (SKNIS): The management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis will be the special topic on the popular government radio and television programme “Working for You” on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. The special guests will be Nurse Mary Caines, Head of Case Managers; Mr. Josef Markman, Leader of Contact Tracing Team, and Dr. Dwain Archibald, responsible for Hospital Management of Cases. The discussion will focus on the roles and responsibilities of case managers and contact tracers; the link between contact tracing and testing; protocols for testing and dissemination of results; and…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, October 19, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – On Monday, October 18, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, joined fellow CARICOM Heads and Ministers of Finance virtually for a Caribbean Ministerial Meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with a special focus on emerging from the pandemic as a more resilient Caribbean region. Monday afternoon’s meeting, which was also attended by Central Bank Governors, looked at the theme “Overcoming the Crisis, a Stronger, More Resilient Caribbean.” The IMF was represented in the meeting by its Managing Director,…

Basseterre: St. Kitts, Tuesday, October 19th, 2021:​ The Home Economics Department at the Washington Archibald High School (WAHS), under the leadership of Ms. Roline Taylor, has embarked on a Week of Awareness aimed at sensitizing the student body of the school on three internationally recognized activities celebrated in the month of October. The Week of Awareness conducted under the theme: “Show you care, be aware, eat local, support the fighters and respect the elderly” effectively represented the international activities under focus. The activities are: International Day of the Elderly, which was celebrated on October 01; World Food Day celebrated on…

The AGRO-INNOVA and PROCAGICA projects provide technical assistance and agricultural inputs to bolster food production based on good agricultural practices under agroforestry systems. The initiative aided farmers in the Trifinio region in developing and applying technical guides and good agricultural practices to help steer implementation of smallholder and backyard crop diversification models. San Jose, 19 October 2021 (IICA). The European Union (EU) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) set in motion a plan to aid 1,508 farming families in the Trifinio region—the border territory shared by El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala—in strengthening smallholder and backyard production for self-consumption through…

Dear Tourism Stakeholders, Below is the updated flight schedule as of Tuesday 19th October, 2021. Air Canada – AC1730 YYZ-SKB/ AC1731 SKB-YYZ Weekly Sunday service: December 19th to April 24th, 2022. AA MIA-SKB 318 Weekly Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday service: August 16th to October 30th, 2021.Daily Service: November 2nd, 2021 excluding November 9th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th and 30th. AA CLT-SKB AA-1701 Weekly Saturday service: December 18th to April 2nd, 2022. AA JFK-SKB AA-2210 Weekly Saturday service: November 20th and November 27th, 2021.Weekly Saturday service: December 18th to April 2nd, 2022. British Airways- BA2157 LGW-SKB/ BA 2256 SKB-LGW Weekly Sunday service: October 3rd to October 10th, 2021.Weekly Friday service: October 15th to October…

Prophet Paul Bridgewater anointing Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris. Seated on the right is Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Senator the Hon Dr Bernicia Nisbett. BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, October 18, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — The church plays an important role in the holistic development of the nation and its people and Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris, while advising that it must be treated sacredly with respect, has pledged that he and his administration will ensure that the church gets justice. “I have gathered recently there were attacks on the church, if you will, but we have sorted…

Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Wednesday, October 13, 2021 — Thirty-one persons from across the Caribbean became the first cohort to benefit from a Verifiable Credentials (digital) project being implemented by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Open Campus. The Verifiable Credentials, which are delivered electronically, were issued to 23 students who participated in the Continuing and Professional Education course entitled Fundamentals of Disaster Risk Management for the Advancement of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The course was offered in partnership with CCRIF SPC. Another eight students received Verifiable Credentials on successful completion of the Continuing and Professional Education…