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CARICOM To Give Special Attention To Tourism And Crime

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
March 11, 2008 (CUOPM)

Two important issues ““ tourism and crime and security ““ are to get special attention by Caribbean leaders over the next few months.

CARICOM will devote a full day during its regular meeting of Heads of Government in July to focus on Tourism, and has agreed for the first time to make Tourism a standard item on all CARICOM agendas in view of its importance to the economies of the region.

A Special Session of Heads of Government will be held in Trinidad in April of this year to discuss issues of crime and security.

CARICOM Secretary General His Excellency Dr Edwin Carrington, St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr Denzil Douglas, Jamaica Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Bruce Golding, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Hon. Patrick Manning and Bahamas’ Prime Minister the Right Hon. Hubert Ingraham also took part in the press conference at the end of the 19th Inter-Sessional of the Conference of Caribbean Heads of Government.

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Nevis Police Patrol Enhanced With Bicycles

Charlestown, Nevis
March 10, 2008

The Triathlon Federation and the Cycling Federation for Saint Kitts and Nevis in a brief ceremony on Friday March 07, 2008 handed over two Trek Bicycles to Permanent Secretary in the Premier’s Ministry Mr. Joseph Wiltshire.  He accepted the bicycles on behalf of Premier of Nevis Hon. Joseph Parry for the Nevis Police Division.
 
Mr. Gregg Phillip a member of the organisation indicated that members of the joint Cycling and Triathlon Federation were inspired to donate the bicycles to show their expression of love for Nevis. 
 
He said “the organisation struggled with its financial resources and sacrificed the purchase of the Bicycles that are necessary for doing adequate policing in the community.”

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Nevis Launches Youth Enterprise Scheme

Charlestown, Nevis
March 10, 2008

Minister of Youth and Sports and Culture in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Hensley Daniel launched Nevis’ first ever Youth Enterprise Scheme (YES) on Wednesday February 27, 2008. The Plan came to fruition 13 years after it should have been introduced in 1995.
 
The Scheme was born after a group of youth officials from the region met in Barbados in 1995 to address the issue of youth unemployment throughout the region.
 
Minister Daniel who was then the Director for Community Affairs with Youth and Sports and Family Services on Nevis, said the Scheme should have been introduced much earlier, in all of the countries represented at the initial meeting held in Barbados.

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Nevis Emergency Personnel To Receive More Training

Charlestown, Nevis Island
March 10, 2008

The need to maxamise all available training was underscored when Permanent Secretary in the Premiers Ministry Mr. Joseph Wilshire told participants at an Emergency Care and Treatment workshop, that they should embrace every opportunity for training available to them.
 
He told participants at a brief opening ceremony of a week-long Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) sponsored workshop, hosted by the Nevis Disaster Management Office (NDMO) on March 10, 2008, at Long Point that he was hopeful that the training they received would propel them into a cadre of trained emergency care and treatment personnel.
 
“I wish to urge all the participants to be open, frank and involved. I am confident that the knowledge and the skills which will be acquired should enable all to perform the necessary task should the need arise.

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