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Nevis Citizens Urged To Know Their HIV/ADS Status

Nadine Carty Caines – HIV Coordinator Charlestown, Nevis Decemeber 15, 2008 Residents of Nevis are urged by the Nevis HIV/AIDS Coordinating Unit to find out their status. A Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Day will take place on Wednesday, December …

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Nevis Premier Calls For Action To Halt Crime Wave

Nevis Premier - Joseph Parry

Premier Speaks About Gangs and Drugs

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 14, 2008 (CUOPM)

Premier of Nevis, Hon. Joseph Parry said Friday that while the deaths of some of the five persons who were murdered in Nevis this year, are drug or gang related, he is frightened by the meaningless deaths of two individuals who were murdered “for God knows what.”

“I can only assume that human life has lost its value in the minds of certain persons in our society. If that is so that is deadly dangerous. It is deadly dangerous because it means that anybody can be wiped out at any time,” said Premier at the opening session of a National Consultation on Crime.

He said: “The criminals are not interested in political parties, are not interested in ministers of government, they are not interested in your role or rank in society. They indulge in themselves and they are satisfied in whatever they wish to satisfy.”

Premier Parry said that the economy of Nevis is nearly totally dependent on tourism and “every one of us in every village in every part of Nevis and in every part of St. Kitts and Nevis, I would want to assume, we would understand the need to survive.”

“The need to have jobs, the need to have an income and the need to have money in the treasury, the need to be able to send our children to school, the need to own homes, the need to be able to have a recreation. It just seems to me that in spite of all this, some people do not care. They do not care if they do damage to the economy and they can destroy the country, I do not know if they are aware, but I do believe that we would have to make them aware. It just seems that nothing matters,” he said.

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St. Kitts – Nevis Calls For “An Attitude Change”

St. Kitts - Nevis National Flag

Federation Govt. Seeks Help In Stopping Crime

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 14, 2008 (CUOPM)

A passionate appeal from St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas to all sectors of the community  set new standards and chart a course away from gun and gang violence.

Speaking at the opening session of a National Consultation on Crime on Friday, Prime Minister Douglas challenged his own ministers of government, public servants, entertainers, religious leaders, journalists, businessmen, parents and the youth to create an era of new behavioral, attitudinal, and societal standards, so that a much more humane, a much more self-respecting, more stable and safe existence could be shared by all.

“Today, I would like today to throw out the idea that gun and gang crime may indeed have everything to do with all of us.  Because if we truly want to stop having to lament and wring our hands, if we want to begin making real headway, we are all going to have to bring keen powers of discernment to this problem.  We are all going to have to insist on bold new behaviours and standards ““ standards ““ on how we rear our own children”¦”¦what we instill in them”¦”¦.how they interact with each other”¦..how we conduct ourselves”¦”¦.how we live together as a people – because crime does not exist in a vacuum”¦..it grows out of the society in which it is found,” said Dr. Douglas to some 250 participants and thousands of listeners via several radio stations.

“As a society, we are going to have to come at gang and gun crime backwards..sideways and every other way that holds even the slightest promise of denting, cracking and eventually breaking whatever habits, behaviours, and practices – large or small – create, first in little ways, then in larger ways, the wayward, don’t-care attitudes and behaviors that later morph into the mindless brutality that we have all witnessed as a people of late,” said Dr. Douglas.

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European Commission Funds Local Security Development

EC Ambassador Valeriano Diaz and PM Denzil Douglas

Ambassador Valeriano Diaz and PM Denzil Douglas (R)
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 12, 2008 (SKNIS)

St. Kitts and Nevis and the European Commission (EC) will continue to enjoy a strong partnership of mutual cooperation and benefit, with the official signing of the 10th EDF Country Strategy Paper.

Prime Minister Honourable Dr. Denzil Douglas and EC Ambassador Valeriano Diaz signed the European Development Fund document at a ceremony held at the Ocean Terrace Inn, on Thursday. This cleared the way for financial assistance to be rolled out in support of several development projects in the twin-island Federation.

The European diplomat noted that St. Kitts and Nevis is eligible for support under a number of European Union initiatives such as the Economic Partnership Agreement and 2007 Annual Action Plan for Sugar Protocol Countries.

The primary support from the EDF funds will go towards a safety and security improvement programme. This covers the upgrade of the police training curriculum to include advanced criminology and forensic science as well as specialized training for local law enforcement personnel at regional and international institutions.

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