Nevis News

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, NOVEMBER 13TH 2006 (CUOPM)
Hotel developer Val Kempadoo says the future development of the Caribbean is inextricably linked to the tourism and hospitality sector.

Speaking at the International Media Launch and Cocktail Reception of the multi-million dollar Kittitian Heights Resorts at the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park Sunday evening, Mr. Kempadoo said the role of the tourism and hospitality sector is more important with the demise of the large-scale agricultural industry in the region and the closure of the 350-year-old sugar industry in St. Kitts last year.

He said that the current resort models in the Caribbean, while commercially successful, do not address the significant impact that tourism has on the social and cultural fabric of small island states.

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, NOVEMBER 11TH 2006 (CUOPM)
St. Kitts & Nevis remains the highest-ranking country in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States in the 2006 United Nations Human Development Report.

The twin-island Federation is listed at number 51 among 177 countries of the world in the Report released by the United Nations.

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CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (November 09, 2006) — Ministry of Agriculture officials on Nevis played host to a contingent of regional Agriculture and finance officials on the final day of a  two-day sub regional symposium. The event was hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in St Kitts from November 6-7, 2006.

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Monday November 6, 4:41 pm ET
By Beth Duff-Brown, Associated Press Writer 
Four Seasons Receives $3.7 Billion Offer From Investors Including Saudi Prince, Bill Gates

TORONTO (AP) — Companies owned by Bill Gates and a Saudi prince announced Monday they had joined with the founder and CEO of Canadian hotel giant Four Seasons in a bid to take the company private for $3.7 billion in cash.

The offer, equal to $82 per share, was made by Four Seasons chairman and CEO Isadore Sharp, along with Sharp’s family holding company, as well as Kingdom Hotels International and Gates’ Cascade Investment LLC. Sharp founded the Four Seasons in 1960 with one small hotel in downtown Toronto.

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CHARLESTOWN NEVIS, (November 06, 2006)
The St James Primary School received a gift of a Dell Inspiron B130 laptop computer from a past student on Friday November 3rd, 2006, following a request by the executive of the school’s Parent Teacher’s Association (PTA).
 
The computer was delivered to the Department of Education on Nevis on behalf of Mr. Patrick Nisbett who resided in the United States. However, Mr. Joseph Wiltshire, Education Officer handed the gift to the school principal Ms. Vertelly Weeks in the presence of PTA President Ms. Verline Glasgow and Secretary Ms. Colette Weekes and students and staff at the school’s auditorium.
 
During the presentation, Mr Wiltshire explained that sometime ago Miss Glasgow approached the former student and asked if he would donate a computer to the school.

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