Nevis Business Owner Widowed, Promises To Keep Poultry Farm Going

Norma Tyson

Norma Tyson (L) and Hyacinth Pemberton

Charlestown, Nevis
September 02, 2008

A local entrepreneur on Nevis gave the assurance that she would continue in the footsteps of her late husband, to ensure that their poultry farm at Spring Hill continued to provide poultry and livestock to the people of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Mrs. Norma Tyson, widow of the late Mr. Oliver Tyson, told officials of the Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis of her intention at her home in Spring Hill on September 01, 2008, after the Bank’s representatives presented her with the last photographs taken of her husband while he was alive. Mr. Tyson passed away in June 2008.

“I am very grateful to the Development Bank for recognising my husband his memory will never leave my mind at all. Sometimes I cry and sometimes I am happy because we have had 30 happy years together. Anyone will know that living with somebody for so long when ever they depart this life, you always feel it deep down in your heart. So I am very grateful that you have chosen me for this project and I will continue to do the best I can to keep the farm going,” she said.

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St. Kitts Communities Urged To Support The Young

Challengers Community Centre Grand Opening

Challengers Community Centre Grand Opening
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 02, 2008 (CUOPM)

A call for the residents of Challengers and Stonefort to utilise the new Multi-Purpose Centre to shape the lives of the youth in a positive direction and provide services for the senior citizens.

Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas said the new EC$1.2 million building financed by the Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan “symbolise the birth of a new set of opportunities that can be fashioned by the creativity of the people in the communities.”

The two-story structure houses a Day Care and Pre-School facilities on the ground floor and a community centre on the top floor.

“It is a facility that provides daycare services to be used by your families – that is the children who will use the nursery and the preschool as provided by the Department of Education and also for our young people and our adults including the elderly, who will use this multipurpose centre firstly, as a community centre with its several services that it will provide and secondly, as an emergency centre especially to be used in the time of hurricanes,” said Prime Minister Douglas, who paid tribute to former Taiwanese Ambassador His Excellency Mr. John Liu and his successor His Excellency Rong Chuan Wu.

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Native Born OECS Chief Justice Is Guest Speaker At Conference

PM Douglas and Justice Rawlins

PM Douglas (L) and Justice Rawlins
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 02, 2008 (CUOPM)

New Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, His Lordship Mr. Justice Hugh Rawlins is the Guest Speaker at the 10th Annual Prime Minister’s Independence Lecture Series.

Appointed to the post in April this year, the Nevisian-born jurist presentation will be on “Pride, Development, Progress ““ Independence, 25 Years of Success” ““ the theme for this year’s Silver Anniversary of nationhood.

The lecture will be presented at the Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) at 8 P.M. on Wednesday 17th September 2008.

Chief Justice Rawlins rose through the ranks of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. He joined the Court as one of the first two Masters in 2000, serving also as a High Court judge with responsibility for Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and the British Virgin Islands.

He was also appointed a Court of Appeal judge before his elevation to the top post within the OECS judiciary.

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St. Kitts – Nevis PM Attends Defense Meeting

PM Douglas (C) At Defense Meeting Ceremonies Photo By Erasmus Williams Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis September 01, 2008 (CUOPM) St. Kitts and Nevis‘ Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas is leading a three-man delegation to the 8th Conference …

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