Nevis Activities

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 17th, 2007 (CUOPM)

Publisher and founder of America’s Black Enterprise Magazine, Earl Gilbert Graves, Sr. is the Guest Speaker at the Seventh Annual Prime Minister’s New Year’s Gala.

Chairperson of the Gala Committee, the Hon. Marcella Liburd said that the prominent American entrepreneur and philanthropist, has accepted the invitation of St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister, the Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas to speak at the January 5th 2008 event in the Grand Ballroom of the St. Kitts Marriott Beach Resort. The event begins at 7:30 P.M.

“2008 will see the full implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Our theme “BEYOND BORDERS,” therefore is a timely reminder that to be successful individually and as a nation, we must move not only beyond our physical borders but our mental, economic, and partisan borders as well,” said Liburd, adding, that the theme fittingly captures the life of Mr. Earl Graves Sr.

She said that Mr. Graves, a corporate giant, who has been officially designated by Harvard University, as one of the most outstanding business leaders of the 20th, “will share with St. Kitts & Nevis his special insights on empowerment and moving beyond borders.”

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Basseterre, St. Kitts Nevis
December 11, 2007 (CUOPM)

Despite a near six percent decline in cruise ship passengers, expenditure by cruise ship passengers in 2006 increased from EC$19.5 million to EC$19.9 million.

Delivering the 2008 Budget Address in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Prime Minister Douglas, who is also Minister of Finance, said expenditure by stay-over visitors reached EC$10.9 million in 2006.

Dr. Douglas, who is also the Minister of Finance, said economic growth in St. Kitts and Nevis over the last decade has been increasingly based on the continual improvement of the tourism product.

He said that the tourism sector’s significant and growing contribution to GDP through visitor expenditure, foreign exchange earnings, and employment generation is critical to the continued progress of the twin-island Federation.

Dr. Douglas said that in 2006, the Tourism Sector continued to record significant growth and to make a substantial contribution to economic activity.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 06, 2007

The year 2007 will go down in history  as the most successful for sports tourism in St. Kitts and Nevis with a total of 1,797 athletes from 31 groups and a number of officials visiting the twin-island Federation.

With the CARIFTA Games slated for next March and two One-Day Internationals between the Australian and West Indies cricket teams in July, government is continuing to work hard to match and possibly surpass the 2007 figures.

Minister of State responsible for Tourism, Sports and Culture the Hon. Richard Skerritt told SKNIS that the quality of the sporting facilities coupled with the beauty of the destination and the highly rated accommodations is a formula that is yielding successful results.

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