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Local Nevis Craft Display Coming To Charlestown

Charlestown, Nevis (March 20, 2007)

Works are ongoing for the provision of a local craft display area in Charlestown. Minister of Agriculture the Hon. Robelto Hector made the disclosure on Friday March 16, 2007 at the Gingerland Primary School, at the end of Basketry and Pottery workshops for students hosted by the Cooperatives Division in Nevis.

“Shortly, with some help from the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, and the Cooperatives Division, I am trying to get an area, some of you know it as the old Cemetery, where we can make space available for you [students] or persons in craft to display their crafts. So persons who are a part of that industry to be able to make a dollar as we say, when we have tourists visiting our shores,” he said.

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
March 20 (AP)

Garfield Sobers feels the notoriety he gained for hitting six sixes in an
over may have overshadowed his other achievements and hopes that does not
happen to Herschelle Gibbs.
At a ceremony on Monday to celebrate Gibbs becoming the first to achieve the
feat in an international match, Sobers jokingly suggested it was almost a
curse when he became the first to do it a 1968 first-class match.
“I hope that Herschelle doesn’t suffer the way that I have suffered over
the years, because where ever I have gone people have recognized me as the
man that hit six sixes,” the West Indies great allrounder said. “I have
always wondered if that was the only thing I had done in cricket. I thought
I had done a little bit more than just hit six sixes.

March 20, 2007
By Lloyd Noel

Now that the ICC CWC2007 has in fact been opened and is ongoing as planned; and the Opening Ceremony on Sunday 11th March in Jamaica, could really be classified as the best ever, from the point of view of show-casing the history and culture of the Caribbean as a whole; and at the same time bringing together parts of the history and traditions of the other competing countries from around the world, it is, perhaps, the appropriate time to pose the above question.

And I say so, because with five weeks still to go before the final in Barbados on April 28, there is still ample time for the Local Organising Committees (LOCs), to more forcefully put forward another case to the ICC and WICB, to make some amends to the entry fees and prices of food and drinks at matches.

And just as significantly is the fact that it is not simply wild speculation on anyone’s part to say that the estimates and calculations about the World Cup bonanza were hopelessly over-exaggerated.

To begin with, it is already very clear that the estimated one hundred thousand visitors, expected in the region for the World Cup will not be realised.

And that realisation comes from the facts that, for the first round matches in which all sixteen teams are participating, the turn outs of the crowds at St Kitts – Nevis and St Lucia especially, have been very disappointing.

Stumbled across this site the other day. http://pklivecricket.blogspot.com The guy here has a link to software that you can install to watch the Cricket in Saint Kitts – Nevis for free….along with the other venues across the Caribbean. The software …

Charlestown, Nevis (March 16, 2007)
Nevisians will now be afforded government lands at cheaper rates. The disclosure was made at a sitting of the Nevis Island Assembly on Thursday March 15, 2007 by Housing and Lands Minister on Nevis the Hon. Robelto Hector.

” I am happy to report in this House and to the nation, that the land sale policy as approved by the Board of Directors of the Nevis Land and Housing Corporation is that where you are a first time buyer in Nugent’s Village, we would offer you land at EC$3.50 per square foot. If you are a land owner taking a second bite at the cherry, we are still able to accommodate you but we are not using the first come first serve attitude. You can purchase land at EC$4.25 per square foot, which is a bit higher than the man who is a first time owner,” he said.

According to the Minister, land was also being offered at Nugent’s Heights to first time buyers at EC$6.00 per square foot and existing land owners at EC$6.50. Regarding the commercial lots, once a purchaser was an established business owner, land prices would be set at EC$8.00 per square foot but would be offered to young upcoming entrepreneurs for EC$7.00.

Notwithstanding, Mr. Hector spoke to a number of procedures put in place to guard against possible fraudulent purchases.”We [Corporation] have realized that we would have problems and so we have created a certificate where an oath would be taken by first time landowners in which you [purchaser] are going to indicate to us at the Corporation that you are a first time landowner. We would then do a search in the Registry to make sure that this is so. This search of course will take time and as such it would involve a small fee.

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