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Dear Tourism Stakeholders, St. Kitts will provide “Safe Harbouring” for the Royal Caribbean Group Vessels, Grandeur of the Seas, originating from the Port of Miami/Coco Cay and Rhapsody of the Seas originating from St. Maarten. Rhapsody of the Seas will arrive into the Federation on Sunday, December 6th 2020, and meet the Federation’s COVID-19 regulations, including arrival travel requirements, and health and safety protocols for all international travelers. Grandeur of the Seas is due to arrive later next week and a confirmed date will be announced.Grandeur of the Seas has 87 crew members and Rhapsody of the Seas has 78 crew members.Upon arrival at Port Zante, the crew for both…

In my capacity as Chief Medical Officer it is my duty to inform you that as of yesterday, December 4, 2020 the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis has confirmed three (3) additional cases of coronavirus disease. Based on the travel records of these three international travellers or non- nationals – one landed in St Kitts on November 20, 2020 from India, one landed in St Kitts on November 28 from the United States of America (USA) and the other landed on November 29,2020 from the USA. These three additional imported cases have been in quarantine at COVID-19 certified hotels…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 04, 2020 (SKNIS): Over 100 new students were inducted into the Department of Youth Empowerment’s Volunteer Corps Programme during a brief launching ceremony of the 2020-2021 Volunteer Corps held at the Immaculate Conception Catholic School (ICCS) Auditorium on Thursday, December 03, 2020.Minister of Youth, the Honourable Jonel Powell, welcomed the inductees and saluted the staff of the Department of Youth Empowerment for the initiative.“I commend the Department of Youth for creating this Volunteer Corps and all of those opportunities that come as a result of it. I must admit that the Volunteer Corps… shows that it is…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 04, 2020 (SKNIS): International partnerships are an essential diplomatic tool to St. Kitts and Nevis and other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) when discussing major issues such as climate change at global fora.Cheryl Jeffers, Conservation Officer in the Department of Environment, said that at the international level most global organizations have one simple rule. One vote per country. Such is the case at the Conference of Parties (COP). Ms. Jeffers said that SIDS usually group together and vote the same way to ensure that greater global focus is placed on issues affecting their countries.Rising sea levels is…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (December 4th, 2020)—The St. Kitts Electricity Company Ltd. will be conducting meter audits in the Village to West Farm areas from Monday 7th December to Sunday 13th December 2020. During this time our advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) technicians will be upgrading our smart meters. This audit and upgrade will affect customers living in The Village, Buckley’s, Lime Kiln, Bayview, Camps, Ocean Gardens, Mattingley Heights, Dewars, Lower and Upper Buckley’s, St. Johnson Village, Laguerite, West Farm and Boyds. Customers will experience a short interruption of service on Monday 7th December 2020. This upgrade is necessary for SKELEC to continue to provide safe and reliable service to its customers. We look forward to the kind cooperation and…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, December 4, 2020 (MMS-SKN) — On Monday November 29 in 1993, 28-year-old Mr Timothy Harris of Tabernacle Village was elected as the Area Parliamentary Representative for St Christopher Seven (Bellevue to Ottley’s) and exactly seven days later, on Monday December 6, he celebrated his 29th birthday, Twenty seven years later, those two anniversaries are still seven days apart. However new developments have taken place among them the people of Constituency Number Seven patting themselves on the back for having had the vision to make the right choice when they elected the youthful politician who is still not only their…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 04, 2020 (SKNIS): To better manage the environment for future life and survival, the Department of Environment in St. Kitts and Nevis focuses on three broad pillars namely climate change, biodiversity, and ozone.Climate Change is the changes in weather patterns that affect all sectors and human life; biodiversity deals with natural resources – plants, animals, and humans, while ozone deals with the banning of those refrigerants that destroy the ozone layer.“From those three pillars then there are sub-sections within these relevant focus areas, recognizing that most of the Multilateral United Nations Agreements – the focal point within…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 04, 2020 (SKNIS): The Explorers Youth Club is set to introduce a class in sewing and embroidery for interested members as it expands on alternative activities to keep young people positively engaged, away from antisocial elements.This is made possible following a donation of six sewing machines along with substantial quantities of threading and other embroidery related material from Reverend Sonia Carr and family members William and Rondon Carr. The family owns the company KARRON’s Fabrics located in Basseterre.Head of the Explorers Youth Club, Inspector Rosemary Isles-Joseph, accepted the donation at a brief handover ceremony on December 01,…

My fellow citizens and residents of St. Christopher and Nevis today is the International Day for Persons with Disabilities. This means, on this day we take a closer look at the issues that are affecting our disabled community and make an extra special effort to find ways of responding to and resolving them. The theme for this year is “Building back better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 World”. According to the World Bank, there are approximately one (1) billion persons in the world living with some form of disability and unfortunately, they are among those who are hardest…

Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), November 25, 2020 (Embassy of St. Kitts & Nevis and The Embassy of the Kingdom of Eswatini): The Governments of the Federations of Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts) and Nevis and the Kingdom of Eswatini signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the Mutual Waiver of Visa Requirements for Nationals of the Federation of Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts) and Nevis and Nationals of the Kingdom of Eswatini. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 25th November 2020 by Her Excellency Ambassador Jasmine Huggins and His Excellency Ambassador Thamie Dlamini. The MOU states that Nationals from both sides with valid…