Nevis News

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 06, 2007 (CUOPM)

A new medical school is to throw its doors open in St. Kitts and Nevis in January next year.

An agreement to charter and establish the University of Medicine and Health Sciences of St. Kitts has been signed between St. Kitts and Nevis‘ Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas and Dr. Robert Ross of the United States to accommodate a maximum of 1200 students.

Witnessing the signing were Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Hon. Sam Condor and Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, Hon. Dennis Merchant.

The University of Medicine and Health Sciences of St. Kitts will be engaged in the business of providing medical education for qualified students from around the world, providing medical related services, and in general providing educational programmes and courses.

Government grants the University, subject to accreditation by the Accreditation Board, the charter for a school of medicine with the right to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine and other appropriate degrees, including without limitation, post-graduate degrees to holders of the Doctor of Medicine degree.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 05, 2007

The government of St. Kitts and Nevis is exploring alternative energy sources to cope with the volatile price of crude oil on the international market, which cost a record price of US $78.40 per barrel in July 2006 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).

Consistent increases over the past couple of years have been dramatic when considering that four years ago a barrel of crude oil cost under US $25.00: a 200 percent rise over today’s average of US $75.00 per barrel.

“The government has taken the cost of energy very, very seriously,” Minister of State for Sustainable Development Hon. Nigel Carty said during a radio interview on Tuesday’s edition of SKNIS Perspectives. “The government has therefore taken a very proactive step in ensuring that we are able to make an impact in the cost of energy here in St. Kitts and Nevis, by ensuring that we get a mix of locally produced renewable energy sources.”

A stakeholder consultation was held last week to explore two research documents on the renewable energy possibilities in St. Kitts and Nevis. Representatives from agencies such as the Organization of American States (OAS), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the International Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) participated in the forum. Locals from the private and public sector also played a valuable part in the one-day meeting.

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Charlestown, Nevis
September 05, 2007

Good evening Nevisians and all those who are listening to Choice and NNC and VON.
Monday, the third of September all of the primary schools and the two high schools on Nevis commence the school new year. I must say that before the start of the school I met with most of school heads and at least one of the high school heads. We discussed a number of matters, including discipline in the schools and gang related crimes.  I express the need for the teachers to be vigilant and to work with the parents to encourage good discipline in their children and to also get them out of these gangs.
 
On the island of Nevis, it appears to me, that everywhere children in some primary schools and the high schools are becoming obsessed with the red ribbon movement and the blue ribbon movement. It makes no sense it leads to misbehaviour, it leads to fights and a breakdown in discipline. I am calling on the parents to work with the teachers to get the children to concentrate on work and to concentrate on good behaviour and stay away from these gangs.

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Charlestown, Nevis
September 05, 2007
For Immediate Public Release

Minister of Agriculture Hon Robelto Hector urged farmers to take advantage of training workshops offered by the Agriculture authorities on Nevis. He said the transfer of knowledge to would serve them for a lifetime.
 
The Minister made the comment at the start of a workshop for farmers in the area of corn production on Tuesday September 04, 2007 at the Taiwanese Mission in Cades Bay. The one day event which was attended by over 10 farmers was a collaborative effort of the Nevis Department of Agriculture and the Taiwanese Mission. 
 
“I want to ask farmers to take this training workshop very seriously because the knowledge you gain here is the knowledge you would be able to impart to others. It is the knowledge that brings to you more money. Today, we are rather specific about extending knowledge about corn production. In extending knowledge, I am hoping that farmers would understand that this knowledge is for a lifetime. The farmer who succeeds is always the farmer who is wiling to try something new.
 
“I am always happy that what is done at the Department or at the Mission trickles down to the farmer. I am hoping that before the years is out I would be invited again to a farmer’s plot which would be a true testimony of what you learned here,” he said.

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

The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is ranked fifth among the 10 richest independent countries in the Caribbean.

Aneki.com, a well-known independent and popular Canadian Web site, which derives its information from numerous sources, including United Nations agencies and the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook, ranked The Bahamas at number one with a US$21,300 per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Oil-rich Trinidad and Tobago was ranked as the second richest with a GDP of US$19,700, a position which would usually have been held by Barbados, which ranks at number three with a GDP of US$18,200.

Aneki.com ranks Antigua and Barbuda is fourth, with a GDP of US$10,900. St. Kitts and Nevis, fifth with a GDP of US$8,200;  Dominican Republic, sixth with a GDP of US$8,000; St. Lucia,  seventh, with a GDP of US$4,800; Jamaica, eight, with  GDP of US$4,600; Cuba, ninth with  GDP of US$3,900  and Grenada, 10th with a GDP of US$3,900.

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