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Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 01, 2022 (SKNIS): The St. Kitts Cricket Association (SKCA) received a donation of three advanced bowling machines from Cricket West Indies (CWI) on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, as part of the legacy from hosting Group Stage matches of this year’s ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. At a brief handover ceremony at the Warner Park Cricket Stadium, CWI President Richard “Ricky” Skerritt, presented the machines to SKCA President Dennis Phillip. “To be able to prepare cricketers at all ages and to make sure that cricketers around the Caribbean can get the kind of preparation that they deserve from…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 01, 2022 (SKNIS): Enumerator training is an extremely important part of primary data collection. As such, officials from the Department of Statistics in St. Kitts and Nevis are currently in the process of training enumerators who will be going out into the field to conduct the household interviews for the upcoming 2021 Population and Housing Census. Corneil Williams, Social Statistician in the Department of Statistics, and Deputy Census Officer with responsibility for field operations for the Population and Housing Census said that the training is extremely valuable. “The training is critical. The persons learned first and foremost…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 1, 2022 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis’ has successfully managed the COVID-19 pandemic with all signs pointing to the continued growth of the economy and the full resumption of pre-pandemic activities. Dr. Cameron Wilkinson, Medical Chief of Staff of the Joseph N. France General Hospital, said that the twin-island Federation, which has no government vaccine mandate, has one of the highest vaccination population coverage in the region with 82.9 percent of adults having one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine and 77.8 percent of adults being fully vaccinated. “It was because we as a people remained united in…

All persons and groups in St. Kitts & Nevis that are interested in organizing fringeactivities, leading up to, and during the 2022 St. Kitts Music Festival, are invited to a veryimportant meeting on Wednesday 6th April, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. sharp.This meeting will be held in the Media Centre of the Warner Park Cricket Stadium.

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 1, 2022 (SKNIS): The new national assessment dubbed Key Stage Assessment of Learning (KAL), which is set to come on stream shortly will be implemented in stages, said the Acting Director at the Curriculum Development Unit – Teacher Resources Center (CDU-TRC) within the Ministry of Education, Amanda Serrant-Edmead, during her March 30 appearance on Working for You. “We are implementing the national assessment in stages. So, this year, we are just using Language Arts and Mathematics and only components of it and then next year we will roll out more of the assessment in other subject areas,” said…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 1, 2022 (SKNIS): The grading system for the new national educational assessment method dubbed the Key Stage Assessment of Learning (KAL) has built-in tools to maintain its integrity. KAL will be rolled-out during the 2021 – 2022 academic period. It will be administered in Grades 4 and 6 in Language Arts and Mathematics. Ornella Halliday-Bacchus, Assessment Coordinator in the Curriculum Development Unit – Teacher Resource Centre, said that measures are being taken to ensure that the grading system is above the board. “The students will be assigned I.D. (identification) numbers and we are trying as much as…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 1, 2022 (SKNIS): The Public Works Department within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure will be kept busy over the coming months with the addition of new tenders.Director of the Public Works Department, George Gilbert, highlighted several areas where the department’s focus will be during an interview on March 11, 2022. “We have two ghauts to rehabilitate, the Cranston Ghaut and Stone Fort Ghaut. These will be undertaken similar to what is at the wash ghaut in Cayon where we will let the ghaut go under and the road flowing over,” said Mr. Gilbert. He added, “What we…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 31, 2022 (SKNIS): Within the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, dog attacks on farms have been a destructive force over the years as they have dramatically reduced the animal population on the islands. The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) is addressing the problem.Chief Veterinary Officer in the Department of Agriculture, Dr. Lesroy Henry, during an interview on March 25, stated that last year, these dog attacks have reduced the small ruminant population by 20 percent.He said, “In the first quarter, we had in the region of about 150 sheep and goats that were either killed or wounded…

San Jose, 31 March 2022 (IICA) –The coalition to fight against the pest threatening global banana production and, in turn, the food and nutritional security of millions of families, reported on its achievements and set its priorities for the remainder of 2022.Representatives from the private sector, academia, civil society organizations, government agencies and international bodies that form part of the Global Alliance for Cooperation to Fight against Fusarium TR4 held a meeting in which they demonstrated the strengths of their work despite the difficult scenario presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and, more recently, by the impact of the war in Eastern…

The Foreign Ministers of CARICOM and Canada will meet virtually on Friday 1 April2022, with the discussions expected to centre on key issues of mutual interestincluding regional security and stability, multilateral cooperation, and building aresilient and sustainable economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.Friday’s meeting will be cochaired by Hon Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs ofCanada, and Hon Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade andImmigration of Belize and Chairman for the CARICOM Council for Foreign andCommunity Relations (COFCOR). CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett willaddress the Meeting.Ministers are expected to deliberate on rebuilding their COVID-affected economies,with emphasis on areas…