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RBBT To Open New Bank Branch In St. Kitts – Nevis

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.

St. Kitts Saddle Fiesta Contestants – 2003 Photo By Erasmus Williams Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis August 11 2008 (CUOPM) The 12th Annual Saddle Fiesta kicks off this coming Thursday with the Official Opening Ceremony at the Saddlers Primary School Grounds. …

St. Kitts – Nevis PM At HIV/AIDS Confeence
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
August 07, 2008 (CUOPM)

A warning from St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas at the 17th International AIDS Conference to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that it would not be business as usual in their efforts to achieve the goals associated with universal access.

Prime Minister Douglas is also chairman of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), said while there were many success stories in the HIV/AIDS fight in the Caribbean, several challenges remained.

The Caribbean remains second only to sub-Saharan Africa that has two-thirds or 67 per cent of all people living with HIV worldwide.

UNAIDS says an estimated 20,000 persons in the Caribbean were infected last year with the disease and some 14,000 died of AIDS-related illnesses last year.

“Many successes have been achieved in individual Caribbean countries in areas such as care and treatment and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. However, as a region there is no certainty that we will achieve universal access goals if we continue to do business as usual,”

Commemoration Wreath For Christena Ferry Disaster

Charlestown, Nevis
August 5th,2008

The Premier of Nevis, the Hon. Joseph Parry, the Nevis Island Cabinet and a number of Nevisians observed the 38th Anniversary of the MV Christena Disaster with a memorial service onboard the MV Sea Hustler on Friday, August 1st, 2008.

“I feel a great sense of loss and heaviness of heart; because this event brings back such bad memories. Many of us lost friends and family members; but out of that great loss came great progress for Nevis,” said Premier Parry.

The Memorial Service not only observed the 236 persons who lost their lives on the M.V Christena on August 1st 1970, but it also recognized the ninety passengers who survived the ill fated trip.

Premier Parry noted during his remarks, that many Nevisians were traumatized and because of that pain a number of people left the island. “During those hard days, the population went from about 15,000 to about 8,000, simply because people could not stand to feel the pain, many people left the island. Of those who stayed around, many developed mental problems. There were no psychiatrists on the island and the pain became so much that they could not stand to be in Nevis anymore. However, with the strength and belief in God we survived.”

Following Parry’s speech, a moment of silence was observed; then the M.V Sea Hustler passed the site where a brightly decorated box with a wreath was laid beforehand by Captain of the M.V Sea Hustler, Mr. Winston “˜Sonny Boy’ Skeete, as he has done for the last few years since the Christena Disaster.

The Plane Is Here..Where Is The Luggage? Photo By Erasmus Williams Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis July 31, 2008 (CUOPM) Scores of passengers on American Airlines flight from New York’s JFK Airport to St. Kitts’ Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport …

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Caribbean Islands Warned About HIV/AIDS

St. Kitts – Nevis Commemorates Christena Ferry Disaster

American Airlines Flight To St. Kitts Loses Baggage