Nevis To Emphasize Social & Economic Policy In 2008

Charlestown, Nevis
January 01, 2008

Nevisians can expect continued emphasis in every area of people empowerment through social and economic transformations. Premier of Nevis Hon. Joseph Parry made the disclosure as he ushered in the New Year in a televised and radio address on January 01, 2008.
 
He described 2007 as a year with much success, as his team of Hon. Hensley Daniel, Hon. Robelto Hector, Hon Dwight Cozier and Hon. Carlisle Powell worked tirelessly to make life better for all Nevisians.
 
The island’s Senior Citizens he said had been the highest priority for the Nevis Island Administration and in 2008 it would continue to give its fullest support to them and seek to strengthen family bonds in each community as the great significance of family and family life continued to be highlighted.
 
In the area of training, Mr. Parry said a number of initiatives to address unqualified persons who left school. In the aftermath of short courses designed by the Ministry of Social Transformation and the Small Enterprise Development Unit (SEDU) in 2007, the matter he said would be addressed in a more strategic fashion and a small team from a training institution in Trinidad would visit Nevis.

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St. Kitts – Nevis To Introduce National ID Card

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
January 1, 2008

Persons who confirm their registration at the Electoral Offices in St. Kitts and in Nevis are eligible to receive a new National Identification Card which is due in a few weeks time.

Minister of State for Information Honourable Nigel Carty told SKNIS that the reregistration process is expected to conclude in September 30, 2008 but Cards will be issued before then in accordance to legal regulations.

“The law states that we have to put a mechanism in place that articulates how the issuance of the Card is going to work,” said Minister Carty. “That may happen in early January [or] February “¦ and once those regulations are in place we will begin to issue I.D. cards.”

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Nevis Hosts Miss Teen Caribbean Party

Miss Teen Caribbean Contestants In Nevis

Nevis Premier With Miss Teen Caribbean Contestants

Charlestown, Nevis
December 31, 2007 

“If we truly want the Caribbean to be one, we have to learn to communicate; not by words nor television, but by travelling and meeting one another,’ said Premier of Nevis, Hon. Joseph Parry.

Premier Parry made the statement on Thursday, December 27 at the Digicel Haynes Smith Miss Caribbean Talented Teen Pageant cocktail held at the Old Manor Hotel.

The Haynes Smith Miss Caribbean Talented Teen pageant has been a part of St. Kitts Carnival for over 20 years.

This year, this outstanding show has played host to thirteen young ladies hailing from Anguilla, Antigua, The British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Grenada, Guyana, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda and the United States Virgin Islands. A short but rather interesting ceremony formed part of the cocktail, with the National Anthem being played on Steel pan by the very talented Leroy Parris Jr, remarks by Mr. Halstead “Sooty” Byron, as well as Committee Chairman, Mr. Antonio Maynard.

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Nevis Reaps $11 Million From Offshore Sector

Amanda Banks, Tax-News.com, London December 31, 2007 The offshore financial services sector in Nevis, which is due to undergo a regulatory overhaul this year, continued to perform well in 2007, with the industry adding $11 million to the coffers of …

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