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Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 20, 2021 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis will begin offering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the public on Wednesday, September 01, 2021. The rollout date was shared by Dr. Cameron Wilkinson, Medical Chief of Staff of the Joseph N. France General Hospital, at Wednesday’s (August 18) COVID-19 briefing by the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC). The first of three shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines arrived on August 12. The donation by the United States government brought an initial batch of 11,700 doses. Dr. Wilkinson explained that health officials have been preparing to introduce the new vaccines to the successful…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 18, 2021 (SKNIS): The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) held an Initial Damage Assessment two-day workshop from August 16-17, 2021. During an interview on August 18, Chief Engineer at the Public Works Department, Livingston Pemberton, said that Initial Damage Assessment is an activity IS carried out after the impact of a disaster. “If the Federation were to be impacted by a hurricane, or an earthquake or even a tsunami, then the NEOC which would have been activated would then send out a clarion call once the all-clear has been given for initial damage assessment to be done,”…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, August 19, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Governor General His Excellency Sir S.W. Tapley Seaton GCMG, CVO, QC, JP, LL.D presided over the Investiture Ceremony held on Thursday August 19 at Government House in Springfield, Basseterre, where eight nationals were officially invested with Her Majesty the Queen’s 2021 New Year Honours for their outstanding and meritorious service to the continued development of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. In delivering congratulatory remarks after the eight honourees were invested with their Her Majesty the Queen’s 2021 New Year’s Honours, Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris said that the honours…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 19, 2021 (SKNIS): As misinformation continues in some segments of society regarding COVID-19 testing and vaccination, Medical Chief of Staff at the Joseph N. France General Hospital (JNF), Dr. Cameron Wilkinson, during the August 18, 2021 NEOC COVID-19 Press briefing outlined the differences between the COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test, the Antibody Test and the PCR Test currently being used at ports of entries to the Federation. “We have two main categories of tests. We have the Antibody Test and the Antigen Test. The Antibody Tests are described as the rapid test because you can get the results within a few minutes. There is also…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 19, 2021 (SKNIS): The Team Unity Cabinet of Ministers met on Monday, August 9, and Monday, August 16, 2021, at the Ministry of Finance Conference Room under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris. Several issues affecting the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis were deliberated on. Cabinet deliberated extensively on matters to do with economic recovery in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it would affect the tourism industry and health.The Cabinet was briefed by the National COVID-19 Task Force and considered the mitigating measures necessary to ensure the economic recovery needed…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 19, 2021 (SKNIS): The Ministry of Education, through Permanent Secretary Mr. William Vincent Hodge, announced the winner of the Independence 38 Theme Competition. The winner is Mr. Emani Samuel, a third-form student of the Verchilds High School, making it two consecutive years that a high school student has won the competition. The winning theme “Adapt, Diversify, Recreate: Independence 38” was selected by the Federal Cabinet from one hundred and fifty (150) submissions. The criteria for theme selection stated that the theme must be concise, memorable, a phrase, a clause, or a short sentence of no more…

The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards will be closed from Monday, 23 August to Friday, 27 August to accommodate construction work. You can contact the Bureau by emailing sknbs@gov.kn Any inconvenience caused during this time is regretted.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, August 19, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Days after the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis narrowly escaped direct major impact from Tropical Storm Grace, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris is calling on citizens and residents to remain vigilant as we are now getting closer to the peak of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Forecasters at Colorado State University, which has produced one of the longest-running seasonal Atlantic hurricane forecasts, state that while at least one-third of the hurricane season is over, most hurricanes occur after August 1. They further…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, August 19, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris has hailed the eight nationals of St. Kitts and Nevis who were today, Thursday, August 19, conferred awards on Her Majesty the Queen’s 2021 New Year’s Honours List for their outstanding and meritorious service to the development of the Federation. During an auspicious Investiture Ceremony held under the patronage of His Excellency, Sir S. W. Tapley Seaton, at Government House, the Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG) was awarded to Cabinet…

St George, Grenada, August 18th 2021 (IICA).: The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) officially launched the first Backyard Gardeners Network Initiative (BGNI) in Grenada with a practical training session on the elements in the backyard, which was facilitated by IICA in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Forestry. Under the IICA Regional Project ‘Soil-centric actions for strengthening food system resilience and promoting regenerative agriculture as a climate solution in the Caribbean’, the objectives of the initiative are to strengthen the technical capacity of community members for increased backyard production through a ‘backyard garden demonstration’ training, and strengthen the…