Nevis News

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
November 20, 2007 (CUOPM)

Price Waterhouse (PwC), which officially opened its doors in St. Kitts in April last year, is among eight PwC member firms that are establishing a regional network in a joint effort to improve services to local, regional and international clients.

The others are the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Eastern Caribbean (Barbados, Antigua, St Lucia, Grenada), Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curacao, and St Maarten) and Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

“The C8 is a tightly knit regional network that embodies PwC’s “˜connected-thinking’ vision,” PwC Cayman Islands senior partner and C8 boardmember, Nick Freeland, told Cayman Net News.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
November 18, 2007 (CUOPM)

The Travel Section of the Daily News, New York’s City’s No. 1 newspaper, the fifth largest in the United States and the fifth-best-selling Sunday paper in the United States, carried a story Sunday in the Travel Section entitled:  “Surf & turf on St. Kitts” written by David Handschuh and co-incides with the inaugural flight from New York to St. Kitts by American Airlines.

He (Handschuh) writes: “The day began with the chef at the market, picking out produce for a banquet; now the diners sit back and watch the evening’s entertainment.

As the plane banked hard to the left 14,000 feet over St. Kitts, the sight of gray, ominous clouds hovering over lush, green mountains momentarily put dreams of a sun-drenched tropical vacation on hold.

But as the beachfront of this Caribbean paradise came into view, there suddenly appeared a good omen that set the tone for our visit – a bright, beautiful rainbow.

There’s a lot to like about colorful St. Kitts, the largest of the two-island Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, a former British colony in the West Indies.

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