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Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 18, 2023 (SKNIS): Richard Skerritt, Advisor to the Ministry of Tourism in St. Kitts, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Social Science degree from the University of Bolton in the United Kingdom for his contribution to the tourism sector. “Yesterday [July 13] was both a humbling and proud moment for me as I […]

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San Jose, 18 July 2023 (IICA) – Fourteen ministers of Agriculture and other high-level agriculture sector authorities from 25 countries in the Americas will meet this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in Costa Rica, to jointly determine measures to tackle the water crisis affecting a significant part of this […]

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July 18, 2023 – BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The emergency response capabilities of the Saint Lucia Fire and Emergency Department will be enhanced through a Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) loan valued at just over USD 11 million. The financing will underwrite the cost of upgrading equipment available to fire officers, enhancing fire and emergency infrastructure for more resilience […]

18 July 2023, Basseterre, Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis – The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) hereby advises that effective 17 July 2023, the operations of FirstCaribbean International Bank (Barbados) Limited (FCIB) in Grenada will cease, and will now be subsumed as part of the operations of Grenada Co-operative Bank Limited (GCB).  The ECCB, […]

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 — The 35th Meeting of the OECS Legal Affairs Committee (LAC) was held in Saint Lucia from July 6-7, 2023. The Committee, comprised of the Attorneys General of OECS Member States, met to review the draft OECS Customs Bill. The OECS Customs Bill is one in a suite of “Free Circulation of […]

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, July 18, 2023 (SKNIS) – The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew addressed the ongoing EU-CELAC Summit today, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, where he, among other things, called for greater multilateral cooperation to combat the challenging effects of climate change. Being held in Brussels, Belgium, Prime Minister Dr. […]

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) extends its sympathies to the Government and people of St Kitts and Nevis on the death of the country’s former Governor-General, Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton.  Sir Samuel demitted office in January 2023 after having served as Governor General since 2015.  He is remembered as a legal luminary, who was one of the […]

July 14, 2023 – BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Two hundred Saint Lucian entrepreneurs, with support from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), will receive training to ensure they can more easily access export markets by complying with packaging and labelling standards. CDB, the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) and the Ministry of Commerce, Manufacturing, Business Development, Cooperatives […]