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Nevis Premier Urges Student Involvement In Music

Charlestown Primary School - Iron Band

Charlestown Primary School – Iron Band

Charlestown, Nevis
May 30, 2008

Premier of Nevis and Minister of Education Hon. Joseph Parry urged students on the island to continue their involvement in music and cited that it would keep them away from idleness and trouble.

Mr. Parry made the call on May 28, 2008 at Musical Expose 2008 which was held at the Netball Complex in Charlestown. The event which was created by Music tutor the late Mr. Herald Sutton in 2006 was organised by the Department of Education. It featured performances from every school on the island and showcased the student’s musical talent and demonstrated the role of the Music Department in their development.

“If you love music it helps to save your mind it relaxes you and it makes you a better person. I believe as well that as we are growing up that young people should not just focus on academic education but to be roundly educated. You need to do a number of things including sports and leisurely affairs and certainly music.

“As you get yourselves embroiled in music, as you get yourselves involved in various forms of music, it also takes you away from idleness, it takes away from some of these activities that can get you into serious trouble,” he said.

The Minister also thanked the music tutors for their hard work.

Meantime, Principal Education Officer on Nevis Mrs. Jennifer Hodge in an interview with the Department of Information on May, 29, 2008 summed up the performances as “fabulous” and of particular delight were the steel pan renditions.

She also pointed to the performance of the Charlestown Primary School’s Iron Band. She said the school had capatilised on the craze and was the first to have an iron band.

 “They did great they sang the popular “Focus” calypso and adapted it to the Test of Standards and fractions and it was ingenious, clever,” she said.

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Nevis Government Consults With Interest Groups On Animal Control

Participants Discuss Nevis Animal Control Issues

Participants Discuss Nevis Animal Control Issues

Charlestown, Nevis
May 29, 2008

Minister with responsibility for Agriculture on Nevis Hon. Robelto Hector described a Department of Agriculture hosted consultation for interest groups on Animal Control on Nevis, on May 29, 2008, as timely. He told stakeholders that their suggestions would become a part of the Nevis Island Administration’s (NIA) way forward for the control of animals.
 
He said the consultation had come at a time when the Administration through the Department of Agriculture, had placed great emphasis on the importance of food and animal production in order to meet the needs of a growing society
 
“Let me say to you, that at this time also, there is a heavy concern as to the humane treatment of animals throughout the world. I would ask you today for us to have frank discussions. Your suggestions would be a part of the way forward in this regard.
 
“I know you are aware that there is legislation and you are also aware of some of the weaknesses. You are also aware of some of the shortcomings that we might have at the Ministry level. I am asking you to give your suggestions today and I am hoping that at the end of our deliberations we would leave here in a better position to plot that way forward as it relates to animal control here on the island,” he said.
 
Director of Agriculture Dr. Kelvin Daly told the participants that the Department was forced to address the problem of animal control because it had become highly problematic.
 
He said it was because the Department did not hold all the answers to the problems related to animal control that the decision was taken to hold the consultation in an effort to seek suggestions to have a definitive policy on the long standing matter.
 
“I remember earlier up in the year I said to my Minister we have to do something urgently because here we are on one hand encouraging persons to plant more food and on the other hand they are getting frustrated because of the problems of wild animals or even domesticated animals causing problems in the livestock and root crops industry.
 
“So this morning we are hoping to get ideas, I hope you came with your thinking caps because we at the Department don’t have all the solutions to deal with this national problem,” he said.

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St. Kitts – Nevis Spent Millions On Electricity Upgrade

Nevis Electricity Company Limited

Electrical Outages Will Be Fewer On Both Islands

Basseterre, Saint Kitts – Nevis (SKNIS)
May 28, 2008

Electricity consumers are in for a brief round of outages soon, and for a good cause, as the Electricity Department upgrades critical components on the grid.

Mr. John Channer, the general manager of the Electricity Department, disclosed to SKNIS that an EC$3 million Protection Upgrade Project nears completion, involving replacement of 30-year-old relays and circuit breakers, which he described as, “antiquated.” The Government has funded the two-year project, and its aim is to remove and replace the old electro-magnetic relays that are slow in responding to faults, and install modern electronic relays. “The antiquated relays have been the source of the “˜Cascading Effect’ that occurs when faults trip several generators off-line,” explained Mr. Channer. “It is also a safety issue, as well, when the old breakers fail to operate and place technicians and equipment at risk for serious injury and damage.”

The upgrades to relays, circuit breakers and switchers will also enhance efficiency in every aspect, said Channer, who indicated that the more recently acquired electricity generators would function better. “The newer electricity generators with their modern electronics would react ahead of the old relays, and as a result take offline larger segments of the system than what was required.”

In order to complete the installation of relays in remote substations, it is necessary to interrupt the supply of electricity. The main areas to be affected have scheduled outages from 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. The schedule indicates interruptions from Canada Estate to Dieppe Bay on Friday, May 30th; Palmetto Point to Fig Tree on Monday, June 2nd; Ottleys to Dieppe Bay on Tuesday, June 3rd; and Conyers to Fig Tree on Wednesday, June 4th. As the system is reconfigured, other areas may experience very brief interruption, said Channer, who apologizes for the inconvenience that the process would cause.

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