2020

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Hazel Laws issued a call for medically vulnerable persons in society to seek assistance when necessary, while reminding individuals that focus is placed on everyone and not just patients with COVID-19…

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Infrastructure et al, Ron Dublin-Collins commended utilities and transport essential workers while highlighting their importance especially during a time when St. Kitts and Nevis is fighting to…

As the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis continues to work to protect citizens and residents from the spread of COVID-19, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Infrastructure et al, Ron Dublin-Collins, who chairs the NEOC’s…

Business owners in St. Kitts and Nevis who have permission to operate on the four partial curfew days next week are urged to ensure that they are ready to meet the needs of their customers while at the same time satisfying the Emergency…

Residents in St. Kitts and Nevis will enjoy four partial curfew days next week where they can go out to conduct essential business. As per the norm, the curfew ends at 6 a.m. and resumes at 7 p.m. on the assigned days of Monday, Tuesday,…

“Parents and guardians can rest assured that things are in place for children’s continued education from Monday, 20th April when they were initially scheduled to return to school”, says Dr. Debbie Isaac, Chief Education Officer. 

Chairman of the COVID-19 National Task Force, Abdias Samuel, says that the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is entering into a phase whereby the curfew measures are being gradually relaxed.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has declared that there is no evidence of community transmission in the Eastern Caribbean at present, says Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Hazel Laws, during the April 17 National Emergency Operations…

The St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly convened on Friday, April 17, 2020, where a Resolution was passed to extend the State of Emergency for six months or less in light of the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of the…

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation in the Federal Parliament and Premier of Nevis, the Honourable Mark Brantley, says that the Constitution of St. Christopher and Nevis provides that a State of Emergency can occur for a period not…

A number of students, mainly at the University of the West Indies Mona, remain in Jamaica as ports both in Jamaica and Antigua & Barbuda have been closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In one recent case, an ambulance carrying a man with a fever and difficulty breathing was rejected by 80 hospitals and forced to search for hours for a hospital in downtown Tokyo that would treat him. Another feverish man finally reached a…

In exercise of the power conferred by section 5 of the Emergency Powers Act, Cap. 19.02, the Governor-General, makes the following Regulations: