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Cuba Offers More Assistance To St. Kitts and Nevis

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis, May 30th 2007 (CUOPM)

The Republic of Cuba has reaffirmed its strong commitment to building economic, social and cultural ties with the nations of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).

This affirmation has come from Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency Felipe Perez and his delegation during last week’s OECS Heads of Government Meeting in Grenada.

“The Minister reaffirmed Cuba’s strong commitment to building economic, social and cultural ties with the OECS and pledged his country’s continued support for the region through the maintenance and expansion of a number of cooperation projects,” the communique issued at the end of the meeting stated.

The Cuban Minister announced that his Caribbean nation will continue the Miracle Eye project which allows Cuban doctors to perform eye surgeries, but patients will now have the operations conducted in their home island, reducing the need to travel to Havana.

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Nevis Winfest 2K7 Hailed A Success

Charlestown, Nevis (May 29, 2007)

Chairman of the St. James Festival Committee Mr. Pearlivan Wilkin hailed Winfest 2K7 as a success. The Whit weekend community festival with the theme “Celebrating with Action Windward Fest 2007″, was the first in what is expected to be an annual parish activity.
 
“In my opinion it went generally well.  It was incident free and I think it was a very good weekend. The festival brought people together and stimulated economic activity, they were two of the five main objectives we wanted to meet this year,” he told the Department of Information on Tuesday May 29, 2007.
 
The festival was sponsored by telecommunications provider (Chippie) UTS Cariglobe and was held under the patronage of Mr. Nathan “Supper” Jeffers a distinguished senior citizen of the St. James Parish.
 
According to Mr. Wilkin, the Committee hoped to achieve more strategic goals to revitalise and penetrate the Parish’s dying culture and heritage and to provide potential contestants for Nevis’ annual Culturama Festival in successive festivals.
 
Meantime, at Winfest’s official opening ceremony at the White Hall Basketball Court on Friday May 25, 2007, Minister of Culture the Hon. Hensley Daniel noted that the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), had taken a decision to organise the parish festivals to give persons additional opportunities for self expression.
 
“The thinking is that the community festivals must provide the spirit for Culturama and if the people are accustom to share in the culture diversity of their respective parishes then we can expect a greater showpiece during Culturama and that is one of the reasons, the aim being to strengthen the engagement and involvement in Culture at the community level so that we can have van improved Culturama throughout the year,” he said.

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Caribbean Week to be Held in New York

Jamaica Information Service May 28, 2007 NEW YORK (JIS) – Caribbean Week, a seven-day programme celebrating and promoting the Caribbean region as a hospitality and vacation destination, returns to New York City from June 9 to 15, 2007 with a …

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St. Kitts and Nevis To Attend OECS Tourism Meeting

Basseterre, St. Kitts, (MAY 29TH 2007)

Chief Executive Officer of the St. Kitts Tourism Authority, Ms. Christine Walwyn, will be among OECS Tourism Ministers discussing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the OECS’ Tourism Sector.

According to the OECS Secretariat in St. Lucia, the 5th meeting of the OECS Council of Tourism Ministers from May 31st to June 1st, 2007 will take place in Grenada.

The Council will also review the sub region’s hosting of Cricket World Cup 2007 and post-event measurement of its economic impact.

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