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Nevis Premier Advises Students To Consider University

Nevis Student At 2nd Annual College Fair Charlestown, Nevis November 18, 2008 The Premier of Nevis, the Hon. Joseph Parry declared the 5th Nevis International College Fair (NICF) open, at the locally owned Occasions function hall Monday, 17th November. “It …

St. Kitts – Nevis Bills Available For Public Scrutiny

St. Kitts – Nevis’ National Assembly Photo By Erasmus Williams Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis November 18, 2008 (CUOPM) Three bills given their first reading at a sitting of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly earlier this month are …

LP Gas In St. Kitts Is 2nd Lowest In Eastern Caribbean

St. Kitts – Nevis Cooking Gas Prices Low By Comparison Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis November 18, 2008 (CUOPM) The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis continues to subsidise Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) making it cheaper for householders than …

Nevis Premier Heads Delegation To OECS Meeting

Nevis, West Indies Premier - Joseph Parry

Nevis, West Indies Premier – Joseph Parry

Charlestown, Nevis
November 18, 2008

Premier of Nevis, the Hon. Joseph Parry will head a St. Kitts – Nevis delegation to the Heads of Government gathering on Montserrat, November 19th to 21st for the 48th Meeting of the OECS Authority. The Meeting takes place at the Montserrat Cultural Centre in Little Bay.

The St. Kitts – Nevis delegation will consist of Chief Secretary- Mr. Ashley Farrell, Foreign Affairs Officer-Ms. Nyan Farrell and Executive Officer in the Office of the Prime Minister- Mr. Crios Freeman.

The OECS Economic Union and the move by Trinidad and Tobago to join the Union will be among the major talking points at the meeting. OECS Member States have set themselves the goal of forming an OECS Economic Union by 2009. Trinidad and Tobago is expected to become a member of the Economic Union by 2011.

Unauthorized Settings Led To St. Kitts Blackout

Cabinet Meeting Officers Investigate Power Outages
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
November 17, 2008 (CUOPM)

Two employees of the St. Kitts Electricity Services have been sent on leave after unauthorized system settings led to power outages on Friday and Saturday, hours after Minister of Public Works and Utilities, Dr. the Hon. Earl Asim Martin assured the general public of efforts to stabilise electricity generation and transmission to consumers.

The Cabinet, which convened a Special Session Monday to review this very disturbing development, said that the team of engineers was able to indicate precisely what resulted in the loss of electrical power in various sections of the island.

General Manager of the Electricity Department, Mr. John Channer in his report to the Cabinet, cited negligence on the part of staff members responsible for system protection matters at the power station as a reason for the outages.

“What was very concerning to the team of engineers was that system settings had been changed, adjusting what is called the “˜earth fault setting,’ without the guidance of the supervising engineers. In instances, it was not clear who made the setting changes. These changes in settings precipitated the development of electrical faults which led to the tripping of the generators,” said Minister of State for Infromation, Sen. the Hon. Nigel Carty in a Cabinet Statement issued late Monday afternoon.