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BASSETERRE, St Kitts, 24 September, 2022 – St Kitts and Nevis is moving closer towards addressing climate-related challenges, as Antigua and Barbuda has made commitments to support the federation in its accreditation bid for Green Climate Funding (GCF) and by extension, its move to address plastic pollution. During the 77th UN General Assembly, Hon. Dr Joyelle Clarke met with […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 24, 2022 (SKNIS): Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, Honourable Garth Lucien Wilkin, said that he highly believes that public office must be influenced by good ethical behaviour. “I believe in Integrity in Public Life unashamedly. We must do better and be better. Too many people in the […]

Washington, D.C., USA, September 21, 2022: On Saturday 17th September, 2022, the St. Kitts and Nevis Nationals Association of Washington, D.C. (SKNNADC), hosted an Independence Charity Walk around the historic National Mall in D.C. The walk was organized for the dual purpose of celebrating the 39th Anniversary of Independence of St. Kitts and Nevis, as […]

Washington D.C., 21 September 2022 (PAHO) – While COVID-19 continues to take around 4,000 lives each week in the Americas, and monkeypox cases rise, the polio virus has now been detected among unvaccinated communities in New York. In light of this, the Pan American Health Organization Director (PAHO) has called on countries to urgently strengthen surveillance […]

Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, Distinguished Delegates I congratulate you on your election as President of the General Assembly of this august body.  I also pause to salute your predecessor in office, His Excellency, Abdulla Shahid, the Foreign Minister of the Maldives for his sterling tenure .  I recognized The Secretary General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts (September 22, 2022) – The participation in the series of meeting leading up to COP27 in Egypt which was held under the theme “Together for Implementation” was intentional on part of the Minister of Environment and Climate Action, Hon. Dr. Joyelle Clarke, to ensure that St Kitts and Nevis is once again […]

23 September 2022, Basseterre, Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis – The Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Timothy N. J. Antoine has advised that there are no immediate plans to make changes to the EC polymer notes and coinsfollowing the death of Queen Elizabeth the II. Responding to a question during a live interview ‘Conversation with the Governor’ in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Governor […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 23, 2022 (SKNIS): Minister of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the Honourable Konris Maynard, is among the Federation’s delegation travelling to Romania for the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) upcoming quadrennial Plenipotentiary Conference from September 26 to October 14, 2022.  The Plenipotentiary Conference is a key event in the world where ITU […]

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, September 23, 2022 (SKNIS) – In his first presentation to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew called on the international community to increase its efforts at combating the devastating effects of climate change. The St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister’s […]

Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 23, 2022 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis has pledged to continue working to advance gender equality and youth empowerment within the local population and in the international arena as it vigorously pursues Goal 5 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Goal 5 advocates for member states to “Achieve Gender […]