Thomson Cruises’ Includes St. Kitts – Nevis

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 10, 2007 (CUOPM)

Thomson Cruises has included St. Kitts – Nevis on one of its seven-night itineraries for the 2008/2009 cruise ship season.

The line will return to the Caribbean next winter after an absence of eight years while continuing to maintain a presence in the Red Sea.

The line’s largest ship “Thomson Destiny” which carries a maximum of 1450 passengers and a crew and staff of 540, will sail from the Dominican Republic on two different seven-night itineraries taking in a total of 10 islands each fortnight – unlike a number of cruise lines that only feature 14/15 night itineraries.

Islands featured include Barbados, Antigua and St. Lucia, St. Kitts- Nevis, Guadeloupe, and St. Maarten.

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Great “New” Book About Nevis

Nevis As We See Her: Goin’ To Come Back By Rosemary Willis Sullivan Rosemary Sullivan, the author, was kind enough to send me her book about Nevis entitled Nevis As We See Her: Goin’ To Come Back, and I have …

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Curator Of St. Kitts – Nevis Museum holds UK Workshop

St. Kitts – Nevis
Thursday September 06, 2007

Curator of the National Museum in St. Kitts – Nevis, Hazel Brookes is currently in Liverpool, United Kingdom, where she has been sharing information on the horrific Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and its impact on the lives of Caribbean people today, with students in a workshop on “Life in the Caribbean”.

Her audience comprises high and primary school students from Chepstow who have registered for the workshop.

Chepstow Museum, the host of the programme, has previously featured a Kittitian ex-slave, Nathaniel Wells, who went on to become the first black Sheriff in Britain, in the 1800s.

According to Brookes, no other Caribbean museum is taking part in this programme, “Signalling yet another first for St. Kitts/Nevis,” she said. The importance of this first?

She believes that it will give a louder voice, in the field of heritage, to the National Museum here.

“I am currently writing about a particular slave who lived in St. Kitts,” she said, “that will be published at a later date and is featured in the International Slavery Museum.”

Brookes’ visit coincided with the opening of the International Slavery Museum, which took place on Slavery Remembrance Day, 23 Aug., which is celebrated in Liverpool annually.

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St. Kitts – Nevis Develops New HIV/AIDS Strategy

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 06, 2007

A new five year strategic plan addressing HIV/AIDS in St. Kitts and Nevis is being crafted at a three-day national consultation at the Ocean Terrace Inn.

On Wednesday, 60 persons from the public and private sector began considering ways to reduce the spread of the pandemic and associated issues such as stigma and discrimination for the period 2008 to 2013. Unique insight on the issues is being offered by persons living with the disease, who are attending this important session.

Clinical Care Theme Coordinator in the Ministry of Health Dr. Kathleen Allen-Ferdinand told SKNIS that it was important to continue involving stakeholders in such consultations so that full participation could be garnered.

“We’re trying to get the public to recognize that every citizen has a responsibility [to contribute in] how we tackle this HIV/AIDS situation,” she explained. “It is now time for us to truly embrace a national expanded response and so hopefully in the coming years we will see the football teams and the basketball teams [as well as several ministries] getting involved and helping to reduce our incidence.”

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St. Kitts – Nevis To Open New Medical University

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 06, 2007 (CUOPM)

A new medical school is to throw its doors open in St. Kitts and Nevis in January next year.

An agreement to charter and establish the University of Medicine and Health Sciences of St. Kitts has been signed between St. Kitts and Nevis‘ Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas and Dr. Robert Ross of the United States to accommodate a maximum of 1200 students.

Witnessing the signing were Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Hon. Sam Condor and Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, Hon. Dennis Merchant.

The University of Medicine and Health Sciences of St. Kitts will be engaged in the business of providing medical education for qualified students from around the world, providing medical related services, and in general providing educational programmes and courses.

Government grants the University, subject to accreditation by the Accreditation Board, the charter for a school of medicine with the right to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine and other appropriate degrees, including without limitation, post-graduate degrees to holders of the Doctor of Medicine degree.

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