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Nevis Enlightens Students About Geothermal Energy

Charlestown, Nevis
February 01, 2008

Fifth and sixth Grade students of the St. James Primary School were the fist to benefit from a series of educational presentations to schools on the island on geothermal energy and its benefits to Nevis.
 
Junior Minister with responsibility for Communications Works, Public Utilities, Physical Planning, Posts, Natural Resources and Environment Hon. Carlisle Powell told the Department of Information on February 01, moments before his first presentation to students entitled “Nevis Geothermal Development ““ leading CARICOM in geothermal development” said the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) had taken a decision to intensify its dissemination of information to the public with respect to the ongoing geothermal project on Nevis. Students would be the first beneficiaries.
 
He explained that Green Energy and its production of which geothermal is a part and wind energy in which Nevis would be involved in would be new to the island and therefore education on about the process was essential to Nevisians.

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St. Kitts – Nevis IT Job Vacancy

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis February 01, 2008 The Department of Information and Technology is inviting applications from suitably qualified persons to fill the position of : Director of Information & Technology Applicants must have 5 years of professional experience …

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St. Kitts – Nevis License Plate Renewal Policy

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis February 01, 2008 Vehicle owners with license plates ending in one (1) who have not licensed their vehicles for 2008 are now in violation of the Motor Vehicle Ordinance requiring such vehicles to be licensed …

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St. Kitts – Nevis Fishing Advisory

St. Kitts – Nevis February 01, 2008 The Fisheries Department has been receiving reports of dead fish found floating in various locations in St. Kitts and Nevis waters.  Fishermen and individuals finding such lifeless fish are advised to bring them …

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Nevis Cost Of Living Reduction Top Of Agenda

Charlestown, Nevis
February 01, 2008

New Junior Minister with responsibility for Trade, Industry and Consumer Affairs Minister in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Dwight Cozier, reiterated the NIA’s commitment to a reduction in the cost of living on Nevis and the implementation of a  system of checks and balances to ensure that consumers were the ultimate beneficiaries.
 
Mr. Cozier, who was reassigned from the Premier’s Ministry on January 10, 2008, to head the Ministry of Trade Industry Consumer Affairs Import and Export Control, made the comment during an interview with the Department of Information on January 31, 2008.
 
“Our [NIA] idea of reducing the cost of living ought not to end up profiting persons or profiting persons who are in the market as middle people between the government and the consumer. We will ensure by virtue of the Price Control Unit which will be supervised by the Consumer Affairs Department that we have controls. We will ensure that prices are controlled, so as to ensure that “¦the prices get passed on, in the end, to the consumer.
 
“That is the whole idea of making the country a country that is more beneficial for the people and we [NIA] are very serious about the idea of reducing prices on the island of Nevis,” he said. 

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