Yearly Archives

2015

23rd Agriculture Open Day Promises Food, Education, And Fun

(ZIZ News) Planners at the Department of Agriculture are busy making preparations for the 23rd Annual Agricultural Open Day scheduled for Thursday April 30 and Friday May 01 at the Department's Grounds in La Guerite. The theme of this…

Hon. Shawn Richards Calls For Patience

(ZIZ News) Parliamentary Representative for Constituency Five, Hon. Shawn Richards is asking residents of Sandy Point to be patient as he continues to work in their best interest. Speaking at a town hall meeting this week, Minister…

Youth Minister Proud Of Youth Forum Organizers

(ZIZ News) The country's Education and Youth Minister, Hon. Shawn Richards expressed pride in the organisers of the two-day Crime, Greenhouse Technology and Leadership Workshop that was organised by the St. Kitts-Nevis Agricultural Youth…

Arts Easter Camp Ends

(ZIZ News) On Friday morning, a ceremony of music and dance helped to wrap up a two-week children's camp focused on the arts. Dozens of children took part in the camp, hosted by the Department of Probation and Child Protection Services.…

First Ever Nevis Blues festival… A Hit

(Nevis Blues Festival)Like all good ideas, the festival was conceived over a glass of wine. That was when two old friends met up in 2013 for the first time in forty years, only to discover that one - living in the UK - was in the music…

CFBC houses Best Nurses Clinical Simulation Lab in the OECS3

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- The Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) is now the home of what has been dubbed by the University of the West Indies (UWI) as the best Nurses Clinical Simulation Laboratory in the Organisation of the…

Nevis Public Works Dept. completes Lampa Hill road upgrade

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS -- A link road called Lampa Hill which connects the communities of Baily Yard and Cole Hill to Brown Hill has been successfully completed. The road which had been impassable to vehicular traffic, was upgraded and…

Agriculture Project Sowing Seeds of Youth Development

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- The St. Kitts-Nevis Agricultural Youth Forum (SKNAYF) is making a push to spread greenhouse technology to farmers and provide them with opportunities to develop new leadership skills so as to make them more…

OTI set to add Dynamic Dimension to SKN’s Tourism Product

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- The Government’s financial support of the remodelling of the Ocean Terrace Inn (OTI) is set to add another dynamic dimension to the country’s tourism product. Minister of Tourism the Hon. Lindsay Grant has…

23rd Agricultural Open Day promises Food, Education and Fun

St. Kitts, Basseterre (SKNIS) -- Planners at the Department of Agriculture are busy making preparations for the 23rd annual Agricultural Open Day scheduled forThursday April 30 and Friday May 01 at the department grounds in La Guarite. The…

US CEO cuts salary to boost employee pay to $70,000

New York, United States (AFP) -- One start-up founder is making his own effort to respond to the issue of income inequality -- cutting his own pay while seriously boosting that of his employees. Dan Price, founder and chief executive of…

24 new HIV cases reported in Indiana outbreak, 130 total

Austin, Indiana (AP) -- Indiana health officials say there are two dozen new HIV cases in south-eastern Indiana, bringing the outbreak's total cases to 130. The Indiana State Department of Health said Friday there are now 120 confirmed HIV…

World Bank says remittances growth will slow down in 2015

Washington DC, United States (CMC) -- The World Bank says remittances growth in the Caribbean is expected to slow in 2015. The Washington-based international financial institution said in its latest issue of its Migration and Development…