Ross University

St. Kitts’ Ross University Blasted by PETA….Again

Anti St. Kitts Ross University PETA Poster PETA Foundation September 10, 2008 St. Kitts — Anyone planning to visit St. Kitts this season will probably choose to visit another island–any other island–after seeing PETA’s newest advertising campaign, which the group is …

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Travel Agency Refuses To Book St. Kitts Due To PETA

PETA – People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals For Immediate Release: August 13, 2008 Contact: Shalin Gala 757-622-7382 Naples, Fla. — Today, Get Out of Town Travel signed on to PETA’s travel boycott of St. Kitts over the deliberate …

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St. Kitts Scholarship Recipient Receives M.D. From Ross University

Ross University - St. Kitts - Nevis

Ross University – St. Kitts – Nevis
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, Saint Kitts – Nevis
June 26, 2008 (CUOPM)

Kittitian-born Dr. Donald Christmas has received his medical degree from Ross University at a graduation ceremony held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Every year, Ross University provides scholarships to Kittitian and Dominican citizens who meet the required criteria. Eligible students receive the scholarship for all 10 semesters, which includes full tuition and fees.

Dr. Christmas heard about the scholarship while working in the clinical pathology laboratory at Ross University’s School of Veterinary Medicine in St. Kitts.

“Some of the doctors there saw my ability to go further and encouraged me to do something better with my life. I told them I was interested in human medicine and they told me about the scholarship, which was instrumental. The whole experience in Dominica was tremendous.”

For Dr. Christmas, the decision to become a physician was a natural progression because he grew up around medicine.

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PETA Continues To Protest Against St Kitts Vet School

PETA Protests Ross University – St. Kitts June 6, 2008 Denver, Colorado People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) continues to protest outside of Ross University’s student recruitment seminars against the school over unnecessarily invasive and deadly veterinary training …

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Another Travel Agency To Boycott St. Kitts

Green Earth Travel to Steer Clients Away From Island Until the ‘Needless Suffering of Animals’ at St. Kitts Ross Veterinary School Ends

Cabin John, Maryland
May 07, 2008

PETA’s recently announced travel boycott of St. Kitts over the needless mutilation and killing of healthy sheep, donkeys, and goats at the island’s Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine is under discussion at travel agencies around the globe. While some agencies are planning to quietly steer travelers to other destinations, Washington, D.C.-based Green Earth Travel has publicly announced that it will encourage its clients not to visit St. Kitts until the veterinary school ends its cruel and deadly surgical procedures on animals. PETA has been urging Ross to join other veterinary schools and use only modern, humane teaching methods. Green Earth’s decision comes on the heels of Las Vegas-based high-end travel agency Holiday Systems International’s refusal to book holidays to St. Kitts for its more than 300,000 clients.
In a letter to PETA, Green Earth President Donna Zeigfinger says that because of the harmful and outdated surgeries that are performed on animals at Ross””and the St. Kitts government’s defense of them–she will urge her clients to vacation elsewhere. “We will only resume encouraging people to book their travel to St. Kitts once Ross University ends the needless suffering of animals by using humane veterinary teaching alternatives recommended by PETA,” she writes. Green Earth has also posted an alert about the alleged animal abuse at Ross University in its newsletter.

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