Nevis Island

Nevis Island’s Disaster Management Facility Opens

Nevis Island's Disaster Management Unit

Nevis Island’s Disaster Management Unit

Charlestown, Nevis
November 11, 2008

The Premier of Nevis, Hon. Joseph Parry in collaboration with the regional United States Embassy, will officially open the Nevis Disaster Management Facility at Long Point at 2:00 pm on Thursday, 13th November.

The United States Ambassador to the region, Her Excellency, Mary Ourisman will be attending the ceremony along with Federal Representatives, Nevis Island Administration officials and invited guests. The program will include brief remarks by the U.S. Ambassador; the Hon Joseph Parry, who is also the Minister responsible for Disaster Management and Mr. Lester Blackett, Director of the Nevis Disaster Management Department.

The 110′ x 44′ building is a hurricane resistant, steel framed building that will house the Nevis Disaster Management Department (NDMD) staff, Emergency Operating center and Warehouse.  There are air conditioned offices, a general office, a combined and interchangeable training/conference/EOC agency room, a warehouse outfitted with racks and 2 rollup doors to provide access for containerized or unconsolidated goods. Also included are 4 bathrooms, 2 showers, a kitchenette, communications room, library and data storage room.

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Nevis Rotary Club Benefits From Geothermal Information

Nevis Island Rotary Club Meeting Charlestown, Nevis November 07, 2008 The Rotary club of Nevis recently benefited from a series of presentations to schools and organizations on geothermal energy and its benefits to Nevis at the Pinney’s Beach Restaurant on …

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Nevis Science Teachers Experience Geothermal Energy

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Nevis Moving Forward With Geothermal Energy

Charlestown, Nevis
November 7, 2008

Teachers of Science and Technology in Nevis and St. Kitts have had the benefit of a first hand look at the significant progress being made in the development of geothermal energy in Nevis by the Nevis Island Administration.

The opportunity was provided them yesterday when they visited Nevis 3 geothermal well at Hamilton as part of a one-day training workshop in the area of renewable energy resources.

Among the resource persons at the workshop was Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and President of the Caribbean Solar Energy Society Dr. Indra Haraksingh. She told the Department of Information that she was excited about the strides made in renewable energy on Nevis.

“This project here in Nevis is long over due and it is very exciting times for Nevis, very exciting times for the Caribbean and for the world because powering here in Nevis through geothermal is fantastic in terms of being able to send it through the other islands because the other islands also have high electricity prices,” she said.

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Nevis Government Hosts Renewable Energy Workshop

Minister Carlisle Powell

Minister Carlisle Powell

Charlestown, Nevis
November 6, 2008

It was important that teachers learnt improved techniques to help them to spread the gospel of renewable energy. Junior Minister with responsibility for Public Utilities, Natural Resources and the Environment on Nevis Hon. Carlisle Powell echoed the sentiment when he delivered the keynote address at the start of a one day workshop for Science teachers in the Federation, on Thursday November 06 at the Mount Nevis Hotel conference room.

The workshop was sponsored by Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization in collaboration with Cariscience and the Nevis Island Administration. The title of the workshop was Relevant Renewable Energy Resources and Technologies-Training Teachers.

The Minister said the NIA took the initiative to educate the teachers in the area of renewable energy, after the University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus had taken the decision that the population of the Caribbean needed to be educated on the idea of alternative energy sources and the use of teachers was generally accepted to spread the message.

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Nevis Earthquakes Triggered By Plate Tectonics

Nevis Disaster Manager - Mr. Lester Blackett

Nevis Disaster Manager – Mr. Lester Blackett

Charlestown, Nevis
November 04, 2008

Director of the Nevis Disaster Management Office, Mr. Lester Blackett during a routine Emergency response Press Conference announced Monday that the earthquake felt on Nevis Sunday at approximately 4:05 am local time, was consistent with tectonics event and was not linked to volcanic activity. Blacket based this revelation on the University of the West Indies (UWI) Seismic Research Unit (SRU) Scientific Advisory on earthquakes and volcanoes activities for most of the Easterm Caribbean countries.

He explained that in 16 years, St Kitts and Nevis experienced an unprecedented amount of earthquakes, mainly attributed by the Caribbean plate boundary, situated just north of Puerto Rico (PR) and just east of most of the Caribbean Islands. This he said accounted for the many earthquakes documented on the Caribbean Scale and assured the nation that the series of recent earthquakes activity on Nevis, are normally what has happened over hundreds of thousands of years.

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