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Basseterre, St. Kitts (28th January 2022)—The St. Kitts Electricity Company Ltd. is advising the public of scheduled maintenance outages for the week Monday 31st January – Friday 4th February. The scheduled maintenance outages are necessary to perform maintenance as a part of our ongoing efforts to improve reliability.         DATETIMEAREA(S) TO BE AFFECTED Monday 31st January 2022 9:00am-3:00pmCabbage […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 29, 2022 (SKNIS): Medical Chief of Staff at the Joseph Nathaniel France General Hospital, Dr. Cameron Wilkinson said that it is necessary when being in air-conditioned rooms to wear masks and allow periodic ventilation to mitigate against COVID-19 transmission. “I am not saying that one should not use an air-conditioned unit, but people should be wearing their masks, they […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 29, 2022 (SKNIS): Members of the National COVID-19 Task Force have expressed a strong desire to see the resumption of organized sports in St Kitts and Nevis and are encouraging members of the respective organizations to develop a restart plan that outlines how competitions can proceed safely for athletes, coaches, officials and […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 29, 2022 (SKNIS): While cruise ships continue to call at Port Zante on St. Kitts at an impressive rate, Chairman of the National COVID-19 Task Force, Abdias Samuel, noted that some vessels were unable to make their scheduled visits as a result of a high positivity rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases. “What we were […]

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore NEW YORK, 28 January 2022 – “As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues its spread all over the world, we urge governments to do everything in their power to keep it from further disrupting children’s education. “To avert a learning catastrophe and put children back on the learning […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 28, 2022 (SKNIS): Medical Chief of Staff at the Joseph Nathaniel France (JNF) General Hospital in St. Kitts, Dr. Cameron Wilkinson, continues to call on citizens and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis to get fully vaccinated in order to better protect themselves from severe disease, hospitalization, and death from the COVID-19 […]

Friday, January 28, 2022 — The Seventy-First (71st) Meeting of the OECS Authority was held virtually on Wednesday January 25th 2022, under the Chairmanship of The Right Honourable Dr. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada.  Against the backdrop of the continuing challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, in the main, the meeting discussed, inter alia: […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 27, 2021 (SKNIS): The protection of the ecosystem remains paramount to the survival of all living creatures for present and future generations. In the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, both government and non-government entities continue to champion environmental conservation as a key part of national development. During the January 26, […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 27, 2021 (SKNIS): The Ministry of Education has done extensive work in relation to key activities outlined in the 2020-2021 Education Section Plan. In a recent interview with SKNIS, Dr. Tricia Esdaille Senior Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Education outlined the progress made thus far. “During the period 2019 to 2021, […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 27, 2022 (SKNIS): Efforts to ban single-use plastics in St. Kitts and Nevis are expected to gain momentum in 2022 as officials target 2023 as a possible implementation date. Telca Wallace, Project Coordinator of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Project, as well as Lynelle Bonaparte, Environment Officer, appeared on the Working for […]