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Castries, Saint Lucia, June 8th, 2022 – The Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) successfully concluded its premiere calendar event; the 2022 Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs’) and Leadership Conference with Corporate Governance Track.  The event signalled the return of CARILEC’s face-to-face events, after a two (2) year hiatus, due to travel restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.  […]

The wait is over, and now fans in St. Kitts & Nevis can walk into a local outlet to purchase theirtickets for the much-anticipated St. Kitts Music Festival. This comes just over three months afteronline ticket sales were launched on 25 th March.With this new development, the Chairman of the festival, Damion Hobson, confidently disclosedthat […]

Charlestown, Nevis (June 8, 2022) – Once home to a vibrant sugar trade, the island of Nevis is now known for generating something even sweeter – mangoes. Following the shuttering of the last sugar mills in the 1930s, this picture-perfect paradise turned its focus to tourism. Asserting a vigilant approach to development, however, Nevis has remained true to its […]

San Jose, June 8, 2022 (IICA) – Gillian Goddard, an activist who founded an organization that has empowered farmers in Trinidad and Tobago and elsewhere in the Caribbean, was recognized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) as one of its “Leaders of Rurality of the Americas”. The “Soul of Rurality” award, as it […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 7, 2022 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Aviation): Thursday, 2nd June, 2022 saw the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis and the Government of the Republic of Benin. The Embassy of Saint Kitts and Nevis in Havana welcomed His Excellency Boniface Vignon of the Republic of […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 04, 2022 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Aviation):The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Aviation is pleased to advise the public of the launch of a fellowship programme called the Irish [Ireland] Fellows Programme for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The fellows programme, fully funded by the Irish Government under the auspices […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 04, 2022 (SKNIS): Minister of Sport, the Honourable Vincent Byron is working to ensure that cricket fans in St Kitts and Nevis are able to witness home games of the local Patriots franchise, the defending champions of the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 Tournament (CPLT20). At a Cabinet Press Conference on Wednesday […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. The Ministry of Health is confirming that there is an increase in the number of persons identified with COVID-19 virus. Over the last two weeks, May 20, 2020 to June 3, 2020, 144 cases of COVID-19 were added to the tally bringing the total number of confirmed cases to […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 03, 2022 (SKNIS): Child protection advocates in St. Kitts and Nevis gathered at the CUNA Caribbean Conference Center on Thursday, June 02, 2022, to review Draft Statutory Rules and Orders (SR&O) for the Probation and Child Welfare Board in relation to the New Horizon Rehabilitation Centre to determine the exact functioning of […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 3, 2022 (SKNIS): Minister of Public Infrastructure, the Honourable Eugene Hamilton, during his address at the Cabinet Press Conference on June 1, 2022, stated that the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis intends to construct desalination plants in Basseterre and Key’s Village, along with drilling for a new well in Cayon. […]