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Thirty countries expected to participate in…
PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Chairman of the Host Country Management Committee (HCMC), Ivan Graanoogst, has disclosed that 24 countries have so far confirmed their participation in the festival, but that…
Agricultural Officials Impressed With Kittitian…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 18, 2013 (SKNIS): A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives was updated on ongoing developments at Kittitian Hill as the Federation’s first sustainable…
Labour Government passes legislation guaranteeing…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 17TH 2013 (CUOPM) – Good news for workers in the hospitality sector in St. Kitts and Nevis. The governing St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Administration during a sitting of…
Workers in St. Kitts and Nevis to get long service…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 18TH 2013 (CUOPM) – The St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly passed legislation Wednesday providing a long service gratuity to workers on the industrial estates and in…
NTU initiates new award for members’ children
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (July 18, 2013) -- A student of the Violet O. Jeffers-Nicholls (VOJN) Primary School is the first recipient of a new Nevis Teachers Union (NTU) initiative to award a primary…
Labour Women mounts pressure for Harris and Condor…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 18H 2013 (CUOPM) – Over 120 women representing the eight constituencies in St. Kitts have called on two recent defectors from the leadership of the governing St.…
Nationals turn out again in large numbers to hear…
PAM Press Release Basseterre, St.Kitts (July 18th 2013):-Scores of nationals from St. Kitts and Nevis living in Toronto and surrounding areas heard first hand a frank and honest report on the current…
Boundary changes must be rejected and will be…
PAM Press Release Basseterre, St.Kitts (July 17th 2013):-Deputy Leader of the main opposition party People’s Action Movement, Hon. Eugene Hamilton has declared that any move to change boundaries at…
New Caribbean sports channel launches August 15
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- On August 15, Caribbean sports cable broadcaster SportsMax is set to launch a second 24-hour sports channel, SportsMax2, as part of its MaxPak offering right across the Caribbean.…
Narine returns to best form as West Indies rebound
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Sunil Narine returned to his best form with a magical spell of off-spin bowling as West Indies rebounded to beat Pakistan in the second One-Day International on Tuesday. Narine…
Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to…
By Gabriela Baczynska KIROV, Russia | Thu Jul 18, 2013 (Reuters) - Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to five years in jail for theft on Thursday, an unexpectedly tough punishment…
Tradewind Aviation launches nonstop service to…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Tradewind Aviation is introducing its signature 'Premium Scheduled' nonstop service to Anguilla and Nevis from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Anguilla and Nevis join Tradewind's St…
OAS and Mexico to offer 600 postgraduate…
WASHINGTON, USA -- The Organization of American States (OAS), the Mexican National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT) and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID)…
Nevisian Dr. Kelvin Daly is President-elect of the…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 17TH 2013 (CUOPM) – Former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture in Nevis, Dr. Kelvin Daly, is President-elect of the St. Kitts-based Clarence Fitzroy Bryant…
SKN Deputy Fire Chief O’Garro: Annual summer…
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (JULY 17, 2013) -- Deputy Fire Chief of the St. Kitts and Nevis Fire and Rescue Services Mr. Everette O’Garro, described the 9th annual SKN Fire and Rescue Services Summer Safety…