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St. Kitts – Nevis Sports Department Grants Scholarships

St. Kitts - Nevis Sports Scholarships

St. Kitts – Nevis Sports Scholarships

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
August 28, 2008 (SKNIS)

The partnership between the Ministry of Tourism, Sports and Culture; Bird Rock Community Club; and To God Be the Glory Sports in the United States, has yielded athletic scholarships for two young men.

Basketballers Shamile Jeffers, 18, and Erasmus Williams Jr., 17,  have been recruited to U.S. schools to pursue their academic and athletic ambitions after impressing overseas coaches who facilitated the July 28 to August 08 Reach One, Teach One Basketball Camp, held at Bird Rock.

“This is good news,” exclaimed Director of Sports Dave Connor. “When the Department of Sports started this initiative two years ago, we did it with the expressed intent of improving local talent and getting young men and women seen by college scouts and coaches. We have been doing that and are continuing to see favorable results.”

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St. Kitts – Nevis Childhood Programs Aim To Enhance Lifestyle

St. Kitts Residents Attend Meeting

St. Kitts Residents Attend Meeting
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
August 27, 2008 (CUOPM)

Tuesday’s official opening of the Challengers/Stonefort Multi-Purpose Centre, which houses an Early Childhood Development Centre, brings the Early Childhood Development Unit closer towards achieving its mission of not only increasing access to Early Childhood but access to high quality care and education.

“Early Childhood is a highly sensitive period marked by rapid transformations in physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development”¦under nutrition, deprivations of care, and poor treatment are particularly damaging to young children, with repercussions often felt into the adult years. Inadequate stimulation in the first year of life can have serious long term effects,” said Co-ordinator of the Early Childhood Development Centre, Mrs. Vanta Walters.

Mrs. Walters told top government officials including Governor General His Excellency Dr. Sir Cuthbert Sebastian and Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, as well as scores of residents from Challengers and Stonefort that a child who receives extremely poor care or who rarely hears language is likely to suffer developmental deficits that are difficult to address later.

“Good Early Childhood Programmes can significantly enhance young children’s well being in these formative years and compliment the care received at home. We at the Early Childhood Development Unit are committed to helping to ensure the best possible start in life for our Nation’s children. Comprehensive early care provides the building blocks for social and intellectual competence that allows children to reach their full potential. Early Childhood Care is a solid investment,” she said.

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UK’s Excel Airways Cancel St. Kitts Flights

Excel (XL) Airways Jet

Excel (XL) Airways Jet

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
August 26, 2008

Excel Airways has announced that they will cease operations on all of their six Caribbean routes for this coming winter due to adverse market conditions. XL currently provides airlift services to St Kitts, Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada and Tobago from London. The weekly flight from Gatwick will fly for the last time on Monday November 3rd 2009.

XL.com Managing Director Martin Lock said “The Caribbean routes’ lack of profitability has been a challenge for XL Airways over recent months.

The main factors causing this are the extremely high fuel prices which result in long haul routes bearing very high costs compared to 6 months ago.

There has also been a serious downturn in the UK economy leading to lower demand for flights and holidays and again, because of their higher prices, the long haul routes from the UK are seeing even more of a softening of demand than short haul.

This weaker demand has lead to XL Airways having to keep our prices competitive as we try and attract more customers.

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St. Kitts – Nevis To Punish Human Traffickers

St. Kitts PM Douglas Speaks In National Assembly

St. Kitts – Nevis PM Douglas Speaks In National Assembly
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
August 25, 2008 (CUOPM)

Parliament in St. Kitts and Nevis takes measures Tuesday to comply with its international responsibilities to prevent, punish and suppress trafficking in persons.
While St. Kitts and Nevis has not traditionally known to be a destination for trafficked victims, there has been some evidence that attempts have been made to use the twin-island Federation as a transit point for that type of offence.

The Bill, which stands in the name of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas points out that the act of human trafficking has been seen as fundamentally linked to drug trafficking, money laundering and possible terrorist activity.

Part 1 of the Bill deals with the usual preliminary matters.  Interpretation plays a key role in that it is important to present a harmonised position in terms of interpretation of commonly used terms for the purpose of combating trafficking.

Across the region and within the international arena, most countries should have similar terms describing the process of exploitation on a wide basis to not just cover the sexual aspects but those who are enslaved for various other reasons and who lack basic human freedoms.  As such, the Bill gives meat to the constitutional framework that provides that no person in Saint Christopher and Nevis should be treated with such degradation that it is tantamount to slavery.

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