Island

Anguillian Delegation Likes What They See In Nevis

Charlestown, Nevis
March 13, 2008

A delegation comprised of government officials from Anguilla traveled to Nevis last week to hold talks with the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) and to visit the geothermal site at Spring Hill. They were briefed by officials from West Indies Power Nevis Limited (WIP) and viewed a slide show related to geothermal energy.
                                                                                                          
Minister with Communications and Works in the NIA Hon. Carlisle Powell said the Anguilla delegation heard about the newly constructed St. Johns Primary School and requested the consent of the NIA’s consent to tour the school with the expectation of erecting a similar educational facility in Anguilla.
 
Phase three of the Island Main Road constructed by the Nevis Reformation Party led NIA on assuming office, was another issue discussed. Mr. Powell said “they drove the entire length of the project and were keenly interested with the road’s drainage and how they were rerouted and straightened and the timely manner the roads were completed.”

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Nevis Electricity Company Asks For Customers Patience

Charlestown, Nevis
March 11, 2008
General Manager of the Nevis Electricity Company Ltd. (NEVLEC) Mr. Cartwright Farrell said the company’s pursuits of renewable energy in collaboration with the Nevis Island Administration were in keeping with international lending agencies’ directives and urged consumers to be patient with the existing fuel surcharge.
 
Mr. Farrell told the Department of Information on March 11. 2008, that the company had little choice but to continue with the existing fuel surcharge once it continued to use diesel generation. He said once renewable energy came on line in 2009, as expected, the fuel surcharge would be eliminated.
 
“At this moment if we subsidise diesel generation by reducing or capping or eliminating the fuel surcharge while using diesel generation, it is a subsidy that is not against the standards of the world. As it is, the world is asking for us to remove them to allow geothermal, wind, solar and hydro energy all these renewable energies, to be able to compete directly against the established coal fossil fuel and nuclear generation in the world. So that is just the way to go and NEVLEC is just following that path. It is one of the stipulations of the lending agencies [including the World Bank and the] Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) that we follow that path. It is a standard that is being set around the world and we just have to follow.

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Nevis Launches Youth Enterprise Scheme

Charlestown, Nevis
March 10, 2008

Minister of Youth and Sports and Culture in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Hensley Daniel launched Nevis’ first ever Youth Enterprise Scheme (YES) on Wednesday February 27, 2008. The Plan came to fruition 13 years after it should have been introduced in 1995.
 
The Scheme was born after a group of youth officials from the region met in Barbados in 1995 to address the issue of youth unemployment throughout the region.
 
Minister Daniel who was then the Director for Community Affairs with Youth and Sports and Family Services on Nevis, said the Scheme should have been introduced much earlier, in all of the countries represented at the initial meeting held in Barbados.

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Nevis Emergency Personnel To Receive More Training

Charlestown, Nevis Island
March 10, 2008

The need to maxamise all available training was underscored when Permanent Secretary in the Premiers Ministry Mr. Joseph Wilshire told participants at an Emergency Care and Treatment workshop, that they should embrace every opportunity for training available to them.
 
He told participants at a brief opening ceremony of a week-long Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) sponsored workshop, hosted by the Nevis Disaster Management Office (NDMO) on March 10, 2008, at Long Point that he was hopeful that the training they received would propel them into a cadre of trained emergency care and treatment personnel.
 
“I wish to urge all the participants to be open, frank and involved. I am confident that the knowledge and the skills which will be acquired should enable all to perform the necessary task should the need arise.

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Nevis Premier Speaks Out On Road Safety

Charlestown, Nevis
March 05, 2008
Premier of Nevis Hon. Joseph Parry joined the call of a number of stakeholders on Nevis for greater caution on the island’s roads, the need for safety measures and public awareness at a symposium on Emergency Response and Safety, on Tuesday March 04, 2008. The meeting was hosted by the Nevis Disaster Management Department (NDMO) at Long Point.

 “We need the police to help, we need the drivers to help, we need to have public awareness programmes and we need to have safety measures taken. We have to make use of the radio or the television, we need to go in the schools [and] we need to do all that is necessary to create that awareness.
 
“It can be done and it will be done before we lose any more lives. Three in any one year that is quite enough we don’t need anymore. We are not in the statistics business we are in the lifesaving business so let us do something about it now,” he said.
 
The Premier explained that people continued to speed on the island’s main and village roads; drink and drive; to hold up traffic to chat  and to walk the streets unperturbed by traffic and believed that the recent fatal accidents had done nothing to change their attitudes.

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