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St. Kitts – Nevis New Years Gala Entertainment Announced

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 17th, 2007 (CUOPM)

Publisher and founder of America’s Black Enterprise Magazine, Earl Gilbert Graves, Sr. is the Guest Speaker at the Seventh Annual Prime Minister’s New Year’s Gala.

Chairperson of the Gala Committee, the Hon. Marcella Liburd said that the prominent American entrepreneur and philanthropist, has accepted the invitation of St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister, the Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas to speak at the January 5th 2008 event in the Grand Ballroom of the St. Kitts Marriott Beach Resort. The event begins at 7:30 P.M.

“2008 will see the full implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Our theme “BEYOND BORDERS,” therefore is a timely reminder that to be successful individually and as a nation, we must move not only beyond our physical borders but our mental, economic, and partisan borders as well,” said Liburd, adding, that the theme fittingly captures the life of Mr. Earl Graves Sr.

She said that Mr. Graves, a corporate giant, who has been officially designated by Harvard University, as one of the most outstanding business leaders of the 20th, “will share with St. Kitts & Nevis his special insights on empowerment and moving beyond borders.”

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St. Kitts – Nevis HIV/AIDS Campaign 2007 Gathers Momentum

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 13, 2007

With the successful completion of a Behaviour Change Workshop, the HIV/AIDS Campaign 2007 gathers momentum as preparations are  made for upcoming events.

The Behaviour Change Workshop which ran from December 10 to 12 saw young people being empowered to adjust certain personal stereotypes and attitudes towards the virus and persons living with it.

This year’s activities are being held under the theme “Respect I: My Life, My Rights, My Choice” which falls under the broad theme of “Keep the Promise, Stop HIV/AIDS.”

Upcoming activities include next Tuesday, December 18th”˜s Whistle Stop. Health personnel and volunteers will drive in a motorcade first through St. Peters and then east around the island.  Stops will be made in the various communities in order to give information, distribute condoms and localized literature suitable to the Kittitian society and culture.  Like last year, the event is a Cable and Wireless bMobile-supported activity.

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Nevis 2008 Budget Session Set For Monday

Charlestown, Nevis December 16, 2007 The Budget Session of the Nevis Island Assembly will be on Monday, December 17 at the Nevis Island Assembly Chambers, Hamilton House at 10:00 AM Premier and Minister of Finance in the Nevis Island Administration, …

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Nevis School Receives Book Donation From US Embassy

Charlestown, Nevis
December 14, 2007

The Nevis Reformation Party led-Administration is on a “warpath” against low levels of reading. So said Minister of Community Development, the Hon. Hensley Daniel, at a brief handing over ceremony at the St. James Primary School on Wednesday December 12, 2007, when he accepted a gift of books on behalf of the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) from United States Embassy Political Officer Mr. Arend Zwartjes.
 
He said most of the schools on the island had been outfitted with a library and that government had recently restructured the entire library services to include community, school and parish libraries.
 
“We intend to interconnect all of them through the internet service and also by sharing the material and also libraries at the community centres because we want to make sure that all of the aspects of our reading is included”¦we in the government are on a warpath against low levels of reading and that is why we are spending a considerable amount of money on school community and parish libraries.

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