Small Hotel Managers Attend OAS Workshop

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, NOVEMBER 13TH 2006 (CUOPM)
A two-day workshop designed to assist small and medium sized hotels in St. Kitts and Nevis to better understand and operate in the online environment and to make use of the available information and communication technologies to improve their marketing strategies opened here on Monday.

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Nevis Premier Meets With English Mayor

(Charlestown, Nevis, 13 Nov ’06) Mayor Frank Brandston of Bedford, England welcomed Premier Joseph Parry to his office on Wednesday, Nov. 8th 2006.   Premier Parry paid a courtesy call to Mayor Brandston during his first official visit to Great …

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Nevis Development Linked To Tourism

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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Nevis Still Ranked #51 In UN Human Development Report

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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Regional Agriculture Officials Visit Nevis

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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