Nevis News

Thursday February 22 2007
Sun St. Kitts – Nevis

Officials of the Ministry of Finance, in particular, the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) are still wrestling with finding a rate for the new property tax.

At the start of this month, the IRD caught the interest of property owners when it announced that the new property tax would be reduced from five per cent on the rental value to less than one per cent of the market value.

At a press conference days later, the Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas further disclosed that the new tax rate would be less than 0.5 per cent.

Still, at that time, an exact figure was not given. The government has repeatedly made it clear that the new rate would not create hardship and burden, but rather it was a means of ensuring that all property owners were assessed fairly.

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February 23, 2007
St. Kitts-Nevis has received EC$9 million (US $3.5 million) as the first installment in promised European Union (EU) assistance to support the closure of its 350-year-old sugar industry.

The first trance of money under the sugar adaptation strategy represented the roll out of the EU eight-year assistance programme for former sugar producing countries in the Caribbean.

Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas, in signing the grant agreement with Amos Tincani, European Commissioner to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, said the funds would primarily be used to assist government with building capacity in the post-sugar environment.

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Charlestown Nevis (February 23, 2007)
Premier of Nevis, the Hon. Joseph Parry on Wednesday afternoon, February 21st hosted persons who were accredited to St. Kitts and Nevis from over 25 countries across the globe. The diplomatic corp comprised high commissioners, honorary consuls, heads of embassies and missions, all of whom came together for the inaugural Diplomatic week.

The Premier who is also Minister of Nevis Tourism welcomed the delegates with true Nevisian hospitality and shared some historical notes as he hosted them to a luncheon at the Nisbett at the Nisbetts Plantation Beach Club.

“Your Excellencies, it is my delightful pleasure to welcome you to Nevis, Nevis is called the Queen of the Caribes and for very good reasons as you’d appreciate.

“We have brought you here to this hotel which is associated with Lord Nelson, the former British Admiral who was involved in many wars with the French and American War of Independence.  He was married to a lady called Fanny Nisbett, who is associated with the Nisbett Plantation Inn, and so we have very fond memories of the Europeans, of the Americans and of course Nevisians.

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Charlestown Nevis (February 23, 2007)
Junior Minister in the Premier’s Ministry, Hon. Dwight Cozier, who is government’s representative to the Nevis Visitor Experience Enhancement Committee (NVEEC), on Tuesday, commended members of the committee as well as Local Organising Committee (LOC) chairman, Mr. Val Henry.

Minister Cozier showered the organisers with high praise following a joint meeting of the organisations on Tuesday 20th Febrauray at the Nevis Tourism Authority Conference Room in Charlestown.

“I had meetings with LOC chairman, Mr. Val henry, and Nevis visitor experience enhancement committee, Mr. Devon Liburd and his team. The meeting was rather smoothly and the organisers for the event for the visitor enhancement have been doing a commendable job.  I also took the opportunity to profoundly thank these persons for the  remarkable job that they are doing. I also wanted to share with them my gratitude to be able to work with them towards achieving our goal of making the visitor experience enhancement of St. Kitts and Nevis a success” he said.

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, FEBRUARY 21ST 2007 (CUOPM)
St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas
said Tuesday the twin-island Federation values its relationship with Japan.

“Japan continues to be a very important development partner, not only in St.
Kitts and Nevis, but also in the region by your non-borrowing membership in
the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB),” Prime Minister Douglas told visiting
Japanese Ambassador to St. Kitts and Nevis, His Excellency Koichiro Seki.

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