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March 5, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A transition to paperless operations has started at the Port of Bridgetown, Barbados with the commencement of a European Union (EU) funded project. The transformation will introduce a Port Community System (PCS), an automated online platform which will integrate users in the public and private sector and reduce logistics costs for the port’s main stakeholders.The system will simplify many complex manual processes related to arriving and departing cargo at the Port, increasing overall efficiency. Daniel Best, Director Projects Department at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) announced the initiative at a launch on March 3 stating that “Barbados’ small open economy will…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 05, 2021 (SKNIS): The Team Unity Cabinet of Ministers met on Monday, March 01, 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 began after the chair and several members of Cabinet had attended the funeral service for Beatrice Llewellyn Lam, and Cabinet recorded its condolences to her children and extended family. The Chair of the Cabinet, Ministers of Health and Foreign Affairs, other officials from the Ministry of Health, and members of…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, March 05, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – With more than two thousand (2,000) persons vaccinated against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) at the end of day on Wednesday March 03, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris said it is clear that the Government’s public education programme on the importance of taking the vaccination jab is resonating well with citizens and residents across St. Kitts and Nevis. Ina statement read during Thursday’s (March 04) Sitting of the National Assembly, Prime Minister Harris said he was encouraged by the significant increases in the…

PRESS RELEASEOn Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021, His Excellency The Governor-General Sir S. W. Tapley Seaton GCMG, CVO, QC, JP, LL.D. was administered with his first dose of the Oxford Astra Zeneca Covid 19 Vaccine. His Excellency has reported that he is grateful that he has had no after effects from the said vaccine.Also receiving their vaccination at the same time were the sister of the Governor-General Mrs. Marguerite Foreman JP, Inspector Alphonso Hendrickson, and Major Lynn Wilkin.His Excellency wishes to commend the professionalism of Nurse Rhonda Lowry-Robinson, Deputy Coordinator of Community Health Services and Ms. Teshelle Bridgewater, Enrolled Nursing Assistant…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 04, 2021 (SKNIS): Three Bills, aimed at strengthening the judicial process in St. Kitts and Nevis, were approved by the Federal Parliament and successfully passed on Thursday, March 04, 2021.These include the Magistrates Code of Procedure (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which is a Bill to amend the Magistrate’s Code of Procedures Act, Cap 3.17; the Criminal Procedures (Amendment) Bill, 2021, a Bill to amend the Criminal Procedure Act, Cap 4.06, and the Jury (Amendment) Bill, 2021, a Bill to amend the Jury Act, Cap 3.15“They are all meant to lay the framework for the introduction of criminal procedure…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 04, 2021 (SKNIS): The effects of COVID-19 are felt globally by all sectors of society. The pandemic has deepened many pre-existing inequalities within societies such as those that are gender-based. Within the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis, women are currently facing the negative effects affiliated with the COVID-19 pandemic.During the March 03rd edition of ‘Working for You’ Professor Jeune Guishard-Pine, OBE, representing Business and Professional Women (BPW), stated “in most societies across the globe, systems are unequal in relation to the access they give to women and men – that really is the underpinning of the inequality…

After years of dormancy, the Sandy Point Fisherman’s Marketing and Supplies Co-operative Society Ltd is on the rebound. From the 13th January to 17th February 2021, the members actively participated in a series of training delivered by the Department of Co-operatives. This training was to prepare members for the reactivation of their fisherman’s co-operative and to empower members to effectively manage their co-operative. The co-operative held a successful Shellfish Festival on Sunday 1st March at Fig Tree, Sandy Point as part of the climaxing of the training and reactivation process. The activity also served as a fund raising…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, March 04, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – In keeping with his Team Unity administration’s good governance agenda, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris laid the audited financial reports for two Statutory Bodies before the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly at its Sitting today, Thursday, March 04, 2021. Prime Minister Harris, the Federal Minister of Finance, laid on the table of the Parliament the annual reports for the period 2013 to 2018 and the annual report for 2019 for the St. Christopher and Nevis Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). The prime minister…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, March 04, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – As the vaccination of citizens and residents against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues across St. Kitts and Nevis, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris said his Team Unity administration is now shifting its attention to returning the Federation to its strong pre-COVID-19 economic position. Priorto the arrival of the first two cases of the virus into the Federation, St. Kitts and Nevis stood as an example of a well-managed small island state. PrimeMinister Harris, while speaking on the Tuesday, March 02 edition of Leadership…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 4, 2021 (SKNIS): The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is expected to have economic growth of 5.5 percent in 2021 as the world in the process of opening back up and returning to a state of pre-COVID normalcy. This was announced by Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Hilary Hazel, on the virtual forum series ‘Leadership Matters’ on March 2 where she said that “Global growth is expected to reach around 5.5% by the end of 2021.” She continued, “In the United States of America, it is expected that that region would grow by 5.1% and this…