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St. Kitts – Nevis Cost Of Living Meeting To Be Held

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis April 10, 2008 (SKNIS) Minister of Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Honourable Dr. Timothy Harris is inviting the general public to an education and awareness forum on the cost of living on Wednesday, April 16 …

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St. Kitts – Nevis To Confirm Registered Voters

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
April 10, 2008 (CUOPM)

The Supervisor of Elections, Mr. Leroy Benjamin has announced that the mobile confirmation process at various locations in Saint Kitts and Nevis will begin next week.

“The Electoral Office has arranged for persons who registered to vote prior to December 27, 2007 to confirm their registration at various locations within Constituencies throughout the federation. This mobile confirmation process will begin on Monday 14th April, 2008 and end on Saturday 7th June, 2008,” said Mr. Benjamin a statement issued from his office dated April 9th 2008.

The Supervisor of Elections said that the “special arrangement is for persons confirming their registration only.”

“Persons registering to vote for the first time will have to do so at the Electoral Offices at Chapel Street in Charlestown, and at Central Street in Basseterre. The contact number for the Electoral Office in Nevis is 469-5061 and 465-2873 for the St. Kitts Office,” said Mr. Benjamin.

He disclosed that between Monday 14th April and Saturday, 19th April, residents of Saddlers, Harris, Molineux, Phillips, Ottley’s, Lodge Village, Lodge Project and Bouryeux can confirm their registration.

Residents of Saddlers and Harris’ can do so at the Saddlers’ Primary School. Residents of Molineux and Phillips can confirm their registration at the Edgar Gilbert Pavilion. Residents living in Ottley’s, Lodge Project, Lodge Village and Bouryeux will go to the Lodge Community Center to confirm their registration.

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Former St. Kitts – Nevis Sugar Lands Serving The Nation

Basseterre, Saint Kitts – Nevis
April 09, 2008 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas says the former sugar lands are being used for the social development and empowerment of nationals.

Speaking at a ceremony to allocate 80 acres of land to 44 farmers, Dr. Douglas said land has been allocated for agriculture, construction of houses for local homeowners, churches, schools, community centres and new businesses thus providing for entrepreneurship and job opportunities in the development of the national economy.

“Social development means that we are providing the land for housing. You now have the opportunity to own your homes on your plot of land and not paying rent as you did to the planter of the old days. The house lots are now yours, distributed through the National Housing Corporation (NHC) or through the Special Land Initiative of the Ministry of Sustainable Development,” said Dr. Douglas.

He said the land is also being used in the social development and empowerment of the people by providing land for the building of churches.

“We have a lot of churches in St. Kitts and Nevis and some of them still do not have land,” said Prime Minister Douglas, who pointed out that his St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Government since taking office has been distributing land to several church denominations “so that our people can as a congregation continue to worship God and to give their praises to God.”

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St. Kitts – Nevis Allocates 44 Acres Of Land To Farmers

Basseterre, Saint Kitts – Nevis
April 9, 2008 (CUOPM)

Two days after a Cabinet announcement that some 100 acres of land was allocated to local farmers in Estridge, Mansion, Phillips’ and Old Road, the St. Paul’s Community Center was the venue for re-settling 44 farmers on 80 acres of land in the Fahie’s Agricultural Belt, bringing to 240 acres the amount of land made available for farming in an area called “the Bread Basket of St. Kitts.”

“It is an exercise that will continue the empowerment of the ordinary man and woman in St. Kitts and Nevis and in particular our small farmers,” Prime Minister and Parliamentary Representative, Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas said at the ceremony at which the farmers signed contracts for the lease of the land they will cultivate under the “Small Holdings Act. “

“This empowers you to have the right to plots of land and give that right to develop that land by farming and making a living from that land and contributing to the provision of food not only for your families, but your neighbours and visitors to St. Kitts ad Nevis,” said Dr. Douglas, who disclosed that some 1,000 acres of land has been earmarked for agriculture in the area stretching from Newton Ground to Bellevue.

The leased land allocated to the farmers will be given rent-free for the first two years and would be extended for several years once the land is continued to be used for farming.

Prime Minister Douglas told the farmers that they have a very important role to play in the development of St. Kitts and Nevis as agriculture is critical to play in the continued development of the twin-island Federation.

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Nevis Disaster Management Office Holds Meeting

Charlestown Nevis
April 9, 2008

A workshop designed to equip participants with the tools necessary to complete a Business Continuity Plan and improve the resilience of the economy to the impact of disasters took place last Thursday April 3rd, 2008 at the Nevis Disaster Management office at Long Point, Nevis.
 
The workshop was hosted by the Nevis Disaster Management office and sponsored by the Caribbean Open Trade Support (COTS) Program funded by United States Agency for International development (USAID) Barbados based office. The one day training programme was facilitated by Mr. Frank Michael who said that the workshop came under the risk component of the COTS program.
 
“Over the last four years COTS have been working with governments, the private sector, non-government and community based organizations to do four things.  First to enhance private sector growth, second to improve the business and investment climate, third to increase resilience to disasters and four to protect the biodiversity of the sub-region.
 
“The round of workshops has taken place throughout the OECS [Organization of Eastern Caribbean States] with the exception of Dominica.  Nevis will be the last of the round of workshops, and I can assure you that you will perhaps be in a better position because everything that could have gone wrong before, we would have looked at and hoped to improve by the time we got to the last workshop, so in looking at what we are hope to achieve,” he said.

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