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PM Douglas With President Ma Ying-Jeou
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
May 16, 2012 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis is satisfied with its relationship with the Republic of China (Taiwan) and there are no plans to make direct contact with mainland China.

“I don’t think that it really matters much as to whether it is mainland China or it is Taiwan. The fact is that we have been having very, very, close relationships with Taiwan, the Republic of China (Taiwan). We are satisfied with the relationship that we have. We believe that there are mutual benefits,” said Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Denzil L. Douglas.

Responding to a caller on his weekly “Ask the Prime Minister” radio programme on Tuesday, Dr. Douglas said even though China is an emerging economy and has great potential, “we believe that we can benefit from whatever China has to offer through our relationship with Taiwan.”

“I do not see at any time in the near future, I do not contemplate, hat is under my watch and this Government that we are leading, that we would want to make any direct contact with China politically,” said Prime Minister Douglas.

He pointed out however that St. Kitts and Nevis like China are members of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

“We have had Chinese nationals in our country being engaged in construction activities. We have Chinese investors who are in St Kitts and Nevis. We have no problem with that, and so we would continue as much as possible to make it possible for Chinese investments or Taiwanese investments to grow and develop St Kitts and Nevis,” said Prime Minister.

“However in terms of our political relationship, we are satisfied with the political relationship that we have with Taiwan. I don’t believe that the Chinese Government is dissatisfied as well with our relationship with Taiwan. It is a long established relationship and that shall continue,” said Dr. Douglas, adding: “However we are open to business and just as Taiwan is having close business relationship with China, so too St. Kitts and Nevis is open to have close business relationship with China as several other Caribbean countries in the region.”

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
May 01, 2012 (CUOPM)

A Canadian company has expressed an interest in setting up operations in St. Kitts – Nevis.

This was disclosed Tuesday by St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr.  Denzil L. Douglas during his weekly radio programme.

Although Prime Minister Douglas did not name the name of the company he said senior representatives officials have already held preliminary discussions with officials of the St. Kitts Investment Promotion Agency (SKIPA).

“This not only means investor confidence in my Government and in St. Kitts and Nevis, but also would lead to increased employment opportunities for the skilled and unskilled workers of St. Kitts and Nevis, but also the associated economic spin-off for the Federation,” said Prime Minister Douglas.

He said government will continue to strengthen the manufacturing sector and to make St. Kitts and Nevis – already the leading exporter of manufactured products to the US in the entire Eastern Caribbean and Barbados – even more attractive, as an investment site, to manufacturing interests.

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PM Douglas On ZIZ Radio
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
May 01, 2012 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis has expressed a determination to enter into agreements with the rest of the world that will stimulate the local economy, expand the imaginations of its people and the possibilities open to them.

Appearing on his weekly call-in radio programme on Tuesday, St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas said the Partial Scope Agreement between St. Kitts and Nevis and Brazil will be signed this week in Basseterre.

“This Agreement will allow access of electronics and other products manufactured in St. Kitts and Nevis to the Brazilian market,” said Dr. Douglas, pointing out that Brazil has placed itself on a most impressive economic trajectory over the past ten years.

“Over that period, it has made steady progress in reducing income inequality.  It has reduced urban employment to 4.7% at a time of plummeting economic conditions in some of the world’s most powerful nations.  Most significantly, it is now very firmly and securely among the top ten economies of the world.  Indeed, just last year, Brazil caught up with and overtook the United Kingdom as the seventh most powerful economy in the world,” Prime Minister Douglas told listeners.

“We are determined to establish allegiances and alliances with economies, corporations, institutions, and individuals that have the ability to expand options and opportunities for the people of St. Kitts and Nevis.  We are determined to strengthen our bonds with interests that can expand the skills, training, and educational profile of the people of this Federation,” said the Prime Minister, who added that Brazil is one such country.

“We have established strong and constructive relations between that country and ours, and I am extraordinarily pleased that Brazil’s Minister of External Relations (that country’s equivalent of our Foreign Minister) The Honorable Antonio Patriota, will be in St. Kitts on Thursday of this week in order to solidify and make official this expanded dimension of the bilateral relationship between Brazil and St. Kitts and Nevis,” said Prime Minister Douglas.

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