Nevis Activities

Huey Sargeant and Cory Tyson

Charlestown, Nevis
June 27, 2008

Director of the Department of Information in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Mr. Huey Sargeant described De Fever, a new interactive entertainment initiative on Nevis Television (NTV) as successful. The programme which was designed to attract the island’s younger population was launched on June 10, 2008.

In an interview along with NTV’s producer Mr. Cory “Masablue” Tyson, Mr. Sargeant explained that the half hour Tuesday night programme with a repeat on Friday, was part of the Department’s strategy to involve younger persons and to enhance the programming which had not included an interactive programme.

“So far so good and we are pleased especially based on the response. So far we have had three different shows and it’s like we have tweaked it and we continue to tweak it.

“In terms of enhancing NTV’s programming, the target really is to attract younger viewers. We have had complaints over the years that we had a set of programming that was general and attracted the older population, adults, and academics but then with this [De fever] you we are moving away from the “Ëœtalking heads’. Basically you [audience] are tired of seeing persons just sitting in front of the camera and read a script of just talk at the audience. This show is far more interactive than anything that we have had previously,” he said.

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Students Learning About HIV/AIDS
Photo By SKNIA
Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
June 27, 2008 (SKNIS)

High school students around St. Kitts faced off on Friday in a test of their knowledge about HIV/AIDS.

The Washington Archibald High School served as the venue for the preliminary round of the “Let’s See What You Know ““ HIV/AIDS Game Show” which is being implemented by the CARICOM Youth Ambassadors of St. Kitts and Nevis in collaboration with the Ministries of Education, Youth and Health.

The first match-up featured the Basseterre High versus the Washington Archibald High, while the Cayon and Sandy Point High Schools squared off in the second grouping. The two-member teams chose from a total of 30 questions from six categories including stigma and discrimination, basic facts, testing and treatment, statistics, acronyms and HIV and nutrition.

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Reading Is Fundamental For Children

Charlestown, Nevis
June 20, 2008

The 25th celebration of independence for St. Kitts and Nevis would be the focus for the 19th Annual Environmental Awareness Programme.

The three week programme would this year be facilitated under the theme “Our country, our people, our future” with the sub-theme “Reminiscing the past, relishing the present, charting the way forward.” The programme is tailored towards the development of national pride and patriotism, sensitisation and awareness of the Federation’s progress as an independent nation, to display creative abilities through various art forms and to interact with their peers from other schools.

Librarian at the St. Georges Branch Library, Mrs. Yvette Liburd, told Department of Information in an interview on Wednesday June 18, 2008, that the children would be actively engaged during the sessions.

“The children will be engaged in illustrated and interactive lecture discussions, songs, art and craft, field trips, drama, quizzes, poetry and essay competitions, song writing competition, research projects and cookery exercises,” she said.

This year’s programme will feature topics such as the road to Independence, our Independence: national symbols and nation builders, our accomplishments since Independence and charting the way forward.

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Caribbean Governments Step Up Fight On HIV/AIDS

Basseterre, Saint Kitts – Nevis
June 20, 2008 (SKNIS)

The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) in collaboration with The Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS, Scotia Bank and the National AIDS Secretariat, Ministry of Health, have joined forces in hosting a National HIV Testing Day to coincide with International HIV Testing Day.

Regional Testing Day, Friday, June 27 2008, provides another unique opportunity to advance universal access to HIV prevention services in the Caribbean and further, to help reduce stigma and discrimination.

The objective of this special initiative is to heighten public interest in Voluntary Counselling and Testing as an effective mechanism for preventing the spread of HIV infection, and further, to help reduce stigma and discrimination.

The general public is asked to be apart of this drive by joining thousands of individuals regionally and internationally who recognizing the worth in knowing their status, will be tested on that day.

Additionally, this is also an opportunity for providing early intervention to persons who may test positive by accessing the free anti- retroviral drugs available in the Federation, thus drastically slowing down the progress of the disease.

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