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Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 19, 2023 (SKNIS): Minister of Tourism, the Honourable Marsha Henderson, said that this year’s St. Kitts Music Festival will be a 420-friendly festival if the second reading of the Smoking (Designated Areas) Bill, 2023 is passed in the National Assembly on Tuesday, June 20. “We will have an Act once it is […]

Monday, June 19, 2023 — Today on June 19th the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission joins the global community in observing World Sickle Cell  Day, under the theme “Building and Strengthening Global Sickle Cell Communities, Formalizing New-born Screening and Knowing your Sickle Cell Disease Status.”  Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited red […]

Good evening to all. Good evening, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Let me first recognize the dance group that so eloquently demonstratively presented the talent of Saint Kitts and Nevis and our booming orange economy. Put your hands together for them.Your Excellency, Dame Marcella Liburd, Governor-General of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. I also […]

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, June 19, 2023 (SKNIS) – Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew, has assumed the Chairmanship of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Authority for a period of one year.    Delivering remarks at the opening ceremony for the 73rd Meeting of the OECS Authority in St. Kitts and […]

Basseterre Saint Kitts and Nevis, June 19, 2023, (Press Secretary, PMO): During a ceremony held on Friday evening (June 16), Saint Kitts and Nevis became the most recent Member State to launch the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission’s Opportunities to Advance and Support Youth for Success (OASYS) project. The OASYS project aims to reduce crime and […]

Good evening to all. Good evening, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Let me first recognize the dance group that so eloquently demonstratively presented the talent of Saint Kitts and Nevis and our booming orange economy. Put your hands together for them.Your Excellency, Dame Marcella Liburd, Governor-General of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. I also […]

Valparaíso- The Second Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition closed on Friday in Chile with a new Global Parliamentary Pact to work towards the transformation of agrifood systems and to promote the right to adequate food for all. “This event has demonstrated that the first meeting of parliamentarians in 2018 in Spain was not a coincidence. A […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 18, 2023 (SKNIS): The Order Paper has been issued for a sitting of the National Assembly to be held at the National Assembly Chambers, Government Headquarters, Basseterre, on Tuesday 20th June, 2023, at 11:00 am and of which notice has been given. Four Bills will receive their second reading. The government’s good […]

June17, 2023–“The world is changing at breakneck speed. Technology continues to transform our lives in ways we could never have anticipated five years ago. Therefore, our diplomacy has to be focused, nimble, creative, and responsive. Our diplomats in the field must be fully seized of our national imperatives and still able to think on their […]

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) notes with deep concern the report that the Sun Auto Car Dealership in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, owned and operated by the Honorary Consul for our Member State, Jamaica, and which houses the Consulate, was set ablaze and ransacked by criminal gangs on Monday 12 June 2023. This act of violence has sadly […]