Nevis News

Charlestown, Nevis (June 20, 2007)

The body of Federal Parliamentarian and former Deputy Premier of Nevis the late Hon. Malcolm Guishard, was laid to rest at the Bath Cemetery amidst the pomp and ceremony of a State Funeral early afternoon, on Wednesday June 20, 2007 before hundreds of mourners.
 
The casket, draped in the State flag of St. Kitts and Nevis, was drawn by carriage to its final resting place, accompanied by a contingent from the St. Kitts and Nevis Defense Force, the Defense Force Band, the St. Kitts and Nevis Police Force, family and hundreds of other mourners, as it exited Grove Park at 2pm. 
 
Early morning showers did not deter Nevis and Kittitians who came to say their final good byes to Mr. Guishard. The service was held in Grove Park in brilliant sunshine with a gentle breeze on Wednesday June 20, 2007.
 
During a number of tributes, Premier of Nevis the Hon. Joseph Parry eulogized Mr.  Guishard and referred to him as a “people’s man” who served the people of St. Kitts and Nevis well, until his passing on June 11, 2007, since his election to public office in 1992.

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Charlestown, Nevis (June 19, 2007)

Nevisians lined the route from the Hunkins Funeral Home on Government Road to the Court House on Prince William Street in Charlestown on Tuesday June 19, 2007, to pay their last respects to the late Hon. Malcolm Guishard, as his casket, accompanied by a compliment of military personal, close family and friends was transported by hearse to lie in state.
 
The occasion, on the first of two official days of mourning in Nevis, cast a sombre mood in Charlestown and disrupted the early morning traffic, as commuters were forced to make way for the slow moving procession. At the time of his passing, the late Mr. Guishard was the sitting Leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament of St. Kitts and Nevis and had earlier served in Nevis as the Deputy Premier for 14 years.
 
The bereaved family and close friends led by widow Mrs. Yvonne Guishard and his mother Mrs Myrtle Guishard, were the first to view the body which was guarded by four military sentries, followed by Deputy Governor General His Honour Eustace John and Mrs. John led by Ms. Angelica Elliott and Superintendent of Police Mr. Joseph Liburd.
 
Members of the Nevis Island Administration led by Premier of Nevis the Hon Joseph Parry were next in line and they were followed by members of the Opposition in the Nevis Island Assembly.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis (June 19, 2007)

A recent report from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat rates St. Kitts and Nevis as the best in implementing initiatives of its youth ambassador programme.

In a June 2007 official review and assessment of the PANCAP/CARICOM Mini-Grant Programme, St. Kitts and Nevis distinguished itself by having the best overall implementation in the region.

The Mini-Grant Programme (MGP) is administered by CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYA) and seeks to sensitise persons about HIV/AIDS-related issues, while challenging young persons to develop projects to reduce the transmission of the pandemic and the associated stigma and discrimination of persons infected and affected by the disease. The MGP launched in St. Lucia in 2005 and is also being implemented in the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Outgoing female CYA Khalea Robinson told SKNIS that she was proud to have the Federation achieve top status.

“It is a wonderful feeling, she said. “I think that the project has been enormously successful and I’m very grateful for that. It is a wonderful note for me to end my tenure as CYA on.”

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Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, and United States Commerce Secretary, Carlos Gutierrez will deliver keynote addresses at the opening ceremony of the Conference on the Caribbean, which begins in Washington, D.C., tomorrow. The three-day major event will be held under the theme ‘Conference on the Caribbean: A 2020 Vision’.

Its highpoint will be the CARICOM-U.S. summit when CARICOM heads of state and U.S. President George W. Bush hold talks. The plenary session tomorrow will be held under the theme ‘CARICOM Development in the 21st Century: Economic Growth with Social Equity’.

The session will also examine the role greater integration might play in promoting growth and competitiveness in the region; how might free-trade arrangements, economic partnership agreements, the outcomes of the Doha round of negotiations, the role of preferences, and new trading arrangements with the United States might impact on CARICOM’s integration into the global economy, among other things.

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