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Nevis Firefighter Shortage To Be Addressed

Head of St. Kitts – Nevis Fire Services – Hester Rawlins

Charlestown, Nevis
August 18, 2008

Head of the St. Kitts and Nevis Fire and Rescue Services Mr. Hester Rawlins assured his men stationed on Nevis that the shortage of manpower would be addressed before year end.

He made the disclosure at a recent ceremony held by the Nevis Air and Sea Ports Authority (NASPA) to commission a new EC$1.5million dollar fire tender at the airport in Newcastle on Nevis.

“I want to give my ministry’s commitment that the manpower problem on Nevis will be improved later this year when our basic training course is completed,” he said.

Notwithstanding, Mr. Rawlins appealed to the young persons on Nevis to join the security services because their services were needed now more than ever as partnership and collaboration was embraced to make the communities safe.

He also addressed the issue of training which he said was critical to the Fire fighting service and urged the authorities to treat it with some degree of seriousness.

New RBBT Bank Branch – St. Kitts – Nevis
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
August 13, 2008 (CUOPM)

Another sign of confidence in the economy of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas says Monday’s opening of a branch of RBBT Caribbean in the TDC Mall on the corner of Central and Fort Streets “is timely as St. Kitts and Nevis propels itself forward as the financial capital of the OECS Economic Union.”

“There is no doubt that St. Kitts and Nevis continues to enjoy tremendous confidence from the regional corporate and banking community,” Prime Minister Douglas said.

Dr. Douglas pointed out that with the prospects for a boom in high-end tourism development on the horizon through the expanding Marriott Vacation Homes International investments in the former Angelus Hotel property, the completion of the first villas of the Ocean Edge Villa Hotel development, the fast-tracked activities surrounding the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Resort as part of the St. Christophe Harbour Development in the South East Peninsula and the start of construction of the Silver Reef Development, together with similar activities in Nevis, the opening of the RBBT branch is timely as St. Kitts and Nevis propels itself forward as the financial capital of the OECS Economic Union.

West Indies Power GM – Mr. Rawlinson Issac

Charlestown, Nevis
August 12, 2008

General Manager of West Indies Power Nevis Ltd. (WIP) M. Rawlinson Isaac, said that the company had every intention to fulfill its promise to the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) and the people of Nevis, to provide cheaper sustainable energy. He praised Premier of Nevis Hon. Joseph Parry for his foresight to allow geothermal explorations to commence on the island.

He made the remark while he officially handed over a gazebo and bus stand at the Five Turnings in Cotton Ground Village to Premier of Nevis and Area Representative Hon. Joseph Parry, at a ceremony on August 08, 2008.

“Our [WIP] intention and we have promised the Premier that we will provide this country with cheap and sustainable electricity, no outages whatsoever. Don’t worry [when] you hear people talking all kinds of nonsense, the resource is here, we are here to extract it to develop that resource, to operate and to produce electricity. There is no mystery about it, it happens all over the world. Iceland is doing it for almost 100 years; Italy, the United States provides about 2,000 mega watts; Russia, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey, Taiwan [and] in the Caribbean we have Guadeloupe. So we are saying that we have a tremendous power base here and that we have to extract it for our own utility.

“I want you [Nevisians] to commend and to give really top cheers to the Premier because when we [WIP] approached him about geothermal, although it has been around for quite some time, he had the vision and not only the vision, he also had the courage – because I would imagine all those times people talking about volcano and earthquake if you attempt to drill – to stand up to all those concerns and to give West Indies Power the license to explore,” he said.

Jerked Pork Spare Ribs – Appetizer Recipe Oualie Beach Resort’s BBQ Night (Circa 1997) Oualie Bay, Nevis West Indies Ingredients: 2 Slabs pork spare ribs 1 Bunch chopped spring onions 2 Scotch Bonnet peppers, finely chopped 1 Tablespoon grated fresh ginger 2 …

Geothermal Energy Drilling In Nevis, West Indies

Charelstown, Nevis
August 07, 2008

Local interest in the geothermal operations on Nevis continued to grow and according to a top official of West Indies Power Nevis Ltd. the trend was evident in the number of persons who continued to visit the Spring Hill Nevis1 site and the Upper Jessups Nevis 2 site.

Chief Operations Officer (COO), Head of Drilling Operations of West Indies Power Mr. Bobby Tinsley, made the observation when he spoke with the Department of Information at his Nelson Spring office on August 07, 2008.

“We have seen a lot of people up there [Nevis 2]. Our security guard handles most of the in betweens stuff and the people who want to come see the location. So stop and see the security guard if you are coming up. They will bring you up and show you around the location.

“During Culturama in the last three or four days I guess people were off work we have seen a tremendous amount of people up there asking a lot of questions. What we are doing? When we think it will be online? Where is the plant going? What is the pad for? Why did we dig the pond? Typical questions from the public that have a lot of interest. Their reactions have been very good they are all smiles and are waiting to see the productivity come along,” he said.

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