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Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 18, 2020 (SKNIS): The Foster Care Programme in St. Kitts is going to be reformed to expand its services and enhance the environment of safety and security for children under its purview. Foster Care is a system whereby adults provide for the care of a child or children on a temporary basis when their birth parents are unable to care for them. The topic was part of the discussion on Tuesday’s (November 18, 2020) edition of the radio and television programme Working for You. Gerald Connor, Acting Director of the Department of Probation and Child Protection Services, shared that the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 18, 2020 (SKNIS): Men and boys in St. Kitts and Nevis are to be celebrated for their outstanding contributions to society. As such, the Department of Gender Affairs has planned a week of activities to show their appreciation and to highlight and celebrate the positive value men bring to the world, their families, and communities.On Wednesday’s November 18 edition of ‘Working for You,’ Dion Browne, Gender Field Officer at the Department of Gender Affairs, said that the week kicked off on Sunday, November 15, with an extraordinary church service at the Antioch Baptist Church. The service focused…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 18, 2020 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis will join the global community on International Men’s Day on Thursday, November 19, 2020, to celebrate positive male role models and the positive value men bring to the world, their families, and communities, as well as raise awareness of men’s issues.“International Men’s Day was set aside to raise awareness on the issues that men face and, yes, men do face issues too. We have male marginalization, male exploitation, boys who are being exploited and raped. We also have male underachievement in schools,” said Dion Browne, Gender Field Officer at the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 18, 2020 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis will join the global community on International Men’s Day on Thursday, November 19, 2020, to celebrate positive male role models and the positive value men bring to the world, their families, and communities, as well as raise awareness of men’s issues.“International Men’s Day was set aside to raise awareness on the issues that men face and, yes, men do face issues too. We have male marginalization, male exploitation, boys who are being exploited and raped. We also have male underachievement in schools,” said Dion Browne, Gender Field Officer at the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 18, 2020 (SKNIS): Minister of Tourism, Transport and Ports, the Honourable Lindsay Grant, said that the Ministry of Tourism’s underwent extensive preparation with its Phase One Plan to re-introduce tourism to the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis in a COVID-19 world. Speaking in the National Assembly on November 17, Minister Grant said that St. Kitts & Nevis’ borders were re-opened to welcome visitors from around the world after a seven-month closure, which was implemented to help curb the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have been preparing for this for a very long time working with our…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 18, 2020(SKNIS): The National Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill, 2020, which had its first reading on October 15, 2020, was passed by the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis’ National Assembly on November 18, 2020.Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and Mover of the Bill, stated that the purpose of the Bill is to make for greater alignment between the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) within the national disaster legislative framework.“Mr. Speaker, this is a very short Bill and it is a very consequential Bill…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 18, 2020 (SKNIS): To further enhance the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis’s tourism product, the Ministry of Tourism held a Tourism Training Workshop today November 18 at the ICT Center with an emphasis on community-based tourism.The community training workshop which was labeled “The Community and You” was held under the theme for Tourism Month 2020 (being celebrated from 1st – 30th November), which is Tourism- People, Product, Purpose # Planning for Posterity.The purpose of this training according to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Carlene Henry-Morton, is to “place our residents and our tourism stakeholders at the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 17, 2020 (SKNIS): The COVID-19 (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2020, which is a Bill to provide for public health and other interventions to prevent, control and suppress the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and for related matters, was strongly supported in the Federal Parliament on Tuesday, November 17 by the Honourable Senator Wendy Phipps, Minister of International Trade, Industry, Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Labour.“Essentially, what has been provided for in this draft legislation is a set of protocols that would have been used in the past, refined for the future and at the same time being done as a means…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 17, 2020 (SKNIS): After much deliberation, the COVID-19 (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2020, was successfully passed in the Federal Parliament on Tuesday, November 17, 2020.The Bill is to provide for public health and other interventions to prevent, control, and suppress the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and for related matters.Attorney-General and Chairman of the Disaster Mitigation Council in St. Kitts and Nevis, the Honourable Vincent Byron Jr, who led the debate on the Bill, said the Bill is critically important and is intended to ensure a more permanent solution to public safety.“…We seek to establish a vulnerable framework that would continue to fortify…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, November 17, 2020 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – By making the necessary legislative amendments now, the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis is ensuring that the twin-island Federation is never again listed as a non-cooperative tax jurisdiction – a classification that causes significant reputational damage to listed nations. “A blacklist is a signal to the rest of the world, with whom you are engaged, that something is awry with some aspect of the governance agenda. Therefore Mr. Speaker, we will not chance those things. We have come a long way. We have, in…