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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…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 17, 2020 (SKNIS): As cases of the novel coronavirus continue to surge in islands around St. Kitts and Nevis, the Federal Minister of Health, the Honourable Akilah Byron-Nisbett, has thrown her full support behind the COVID-19 (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2020, that had its second reading in the National Assembly on Tuesday, November 17, 2020.The Bill was introduced in parliament on October 15, 2020, and was moved for its second reading by the Attorney General, Honourable Vincent Byron Jr., in his capacity as Chair of the Disaster Mitigation Council. It seeks to provide for public health and…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, November 16, 2020 (MMS-SKN) — Diabetes is one of the four major types of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and the Federal Minister of Health the Hon Akilah Byron-Nisbett is making an appeal for everyone to support persons living with the disease. Minister Byron-Nisbett made the remarks on World Diabetes Day, Saturday November 14, at the War Memorial in Fortlands, Basseterre, at the end of the St. Kitts Diabetes Association’s organised Grand Walk held under the theme ‘Walk to Cure Diabetes’. The walk had taken the participants from the War Memorial to the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank via Bay Road and…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, November 17, 2020 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, has reaffirmed that the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has no intention of introducing Personal Income Tax or increasing Corporate Income Tax. Theprime minister made this statement during the Tuesday, November 17 Sitting of the National Assembly in response to the misinformation that is presently in the public domain surrounding the tabling of the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2020. PrimeMinister Harris said the Amendments to the Bill seek to clarify the application of…