Nevis News

Basseterre, St.Kitts – Nevis
November 05, 2007 (CUOPM)

The St. Kitts Marketing and Development Department is looking for an Investment Promotion Director and an Investment Facilitation Officer.

The two positions are available in keeping with plans by the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Administration to upgrade the Marketing and Development Department into the St. Kitts Investment Promotion Agency (SKIPA), which includes the One Stop Shop to help local and foreign investors establish their projects and become operational in St. Kitts.

The key duties of the Investment Promotion Director are to establish and manage the SKIPA’s Investment Promotion Department, which includes strategic planning, engaging in marketing and promotion efforts to reach targeted investors, facilitating investors’ exploration of the island conditions, performing aftercare services, liaising with Government Departments, preparing the Department’s budget, and reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The job would require international travel.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis

November 02, 2007(CUOPM)

The parade of cruise ships into the Basseterre Roadstead picks up steam next week when six ships with a total capacity of 12,488 passengers are scheduled to berth at Port Zante.

The 2,600-passenger Queen Mary 2 docks on Sunday 4th November. The 420-passenger Spirit of Adventure berths on Tuesday 8th and the 2,020-passenger Empress of the Seas on Wednesday 8th.

The Westerdam arrives on Thursday 8th with 1,848 passengers and the 2,500-passenger Norwegian Dawn docks on Friday 9th.

The Emerald Princess with a passenger capacity of 3,100 passengers will dock on Saturday 10th November.

Most of the passengers are expected to disembark and go on sight-seeing tours via taxis and the St. Kitts Scenic Railway, shopping, sun and sea-bathing, hiking, horse-back riding, snorkeling, golfing, kayaking and sailing.

A total of 54,463 cruse passengers from 26 ships are expected to visit this month.

The 2007/2008 Cruise Ship Season is set to be the best ever in the history of the industry.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
November 01, 2007

Twenty-nine items comprising basic food items such as chicken, meats, fish and rice as well as non-food goods including toothpaste, disposable diapers, and some pharmaceutical products are addressed in the Price Control Order.

At a press conference on Thursday at Government Headquarters, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Hon. Dr. Timothy Harris said the price control initiative is a direct intervention by Government to protect consumers and small businesses from the spiraling costs of goods, and to achieve a level of moderation in the cost of living.

“We empathize with the public concern,” the Minister stressed. “We are aware that the inflationary trajectory of prices is partly caused by imported inflation since we import almost all that we consume.

“The Government, however, is concerned about the diminishing purchasing power of pensioners on fixed incomes, our workers on the Industrial Estate, our domestic workers and other categories of fixed income earners who continue to see their hard earn dollars stretched each week.”

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Charlestown, Nevis
November 01, 2007

Junior Minister in the Ministry of Communications and Works with special responsibilities for Public Utilities Hon Carlisle Powell, said the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) was keen to improve the quality of services provided to the public by all government owned and operated agencies in its effort to make life better for all Nevisians.

The Minister made the disclosure on Thursday November 01, 2007, at the Mount Nevis Hotel, while he addressed senior staff members of the Nevis Electricity Company Ltd. (NEVLEC), at the start of a two-say workshop on Personal Productivity.
He regarded the NEVLEC and the Caribbean Electricity Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) sponsored workshop as an investment in the future of the company.

“Training of the human resource in a company is a tremendous investment in the future of the company. I am delighted that NEVLEC has identified “Personal Productivity” as the topic to be explored over the next two days. I am sure that the Human Resource Department was quick to recognise that if personal productivity improves, the company will benefit by getting more out of its workers,” he said.

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