Charlestown, Nevis

“We in St. Kitts – Nevis have made history not only in terms of hosting World Cup but we are now actually in the record books as we had Gibbs from South Africa hitting six sixes in an over and that was done right here in Warner Park.”
 
Those were the sentiments of Oscar Walters, President of the Nevis Cricket Association in a brief interview with SKNVibes on the economic impact of ICC World Cup Cricket. 
 
“I do not see an immediate impact on the economy in the sense that it is ongoing and I am not seeing the visitor turnout that I expected for the World Cup.  As this is the first round of matches it is not a round where you see a lot of big teams and so forth performing.  While I do not see a big impact in terms of the economy, I do see something happening later down the road as we are now on the world map,” he said.

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Friday March 23 2007
Saint Kitts Sun

One restaurateur is complaining that ICC Cricket World Cup has adversely affected her business causing her to lose thousands of dollars on her investment.

Proprietor of Chicken Hut, Althea White, told the SUN she has had nothing but hardship since the World Cup started last week Wednesday.

Chicken Hut is the only business located in the security area surrounding Warner Park and because of stringent security measures, cordoning off the streets leading to Warner Park and blocking vehicular traffic.  White said her business has suffered a major blow, especially on match days.

White, whose restaurant is located directly opposite the walls of the Warner Park Stadium estimates that she has lost close to EC $10,000 because of the World Cup.

“On the first day, there were foreign police posted at each point and when people told them they want to go to Chicken Hut, they told them they don’t have a pass so they were turned back and as a result of that, I lost business that day. When I consulted a police inspector on the matter, he said they forgot to put the barricade in the road to partition off the area because they were so busy and they forgot to put a local police with the foreign police, so that’s the reason everything went haywire that day,” White said.

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Friday March 23 2007

The Chairman and Board of Directors of The Bank of Nevis Ltd., is pleased to announce the appointment of Andral “Jack” Shirley as its general manager with effect from 8 Jan., 2007.

Shirley, a Jamaican national is a career banker with over 40 years experience in all areas of commercial banking covering retail, private and corporate operations, with extensive training locally and internationally.

He started his career in Barclays Bank DCO (later named N.C.B Jamaica Limited) moving through the ranks to the position of senior assistant general manager and manager of its main branch with a customer base of over 150,000 and a complement of 150 staff. There he and his team earned numerous performance awards.

In 2001, he opted for early retirement from NCB Jamaica Ltd., to take up a three-year assignment at First Global Bank Limited (Jamaica) as managing director. There he earned the moniker “Mr. Compliance”.

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