Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 27th, 2021 (ZIZ News) As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to have an effect on businesses within the tourism industry, the History and Heritage Committee has decided to significantly scale back activities to commemorate History and Heritage month.
This was revealed by Chairman of the committee, Percival Hanley during an interview with ZIZ news.
He noted that the shutdown of the tourism industry during the lockdown period last year contributed to there being a lack of funds to host activities this year.
“Because of Covid-19, we as the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park Society have little to no income as a result…because of the literal closure of the tourism industry which was our life line, we don’t have the capability of putting it on. We use to do it as what we call a community outreach event because every year we have a few events that we involve the community and it’s a spend for us in other words we don’t earn anything from it but we put it on to engage he public in our activities but this year unfortunately we don’t have any income to do so.”
The committee has opted to host their signature event which is the Probyn Innis Memorial Lecture which will be held virtually.
Hanley said the links are posted to the University of the West Indies Open Campus Facebook page.
The lecture will be on Tuesday March 7th at 7pm.
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Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 25th, 2021 (ZIZ News) Due to the on-going Covid-19 pandemic the History and Heritage committee has opted to host the Sir Probyn Innis Memorial Lecture virtually.
This was revealed by Chairman of the committee, Percival Hanley in an interview with ZIZ news.
“The lecture which is styled the Probyn Innis Memorial Lecture is a signature event for the week of activities bearing the name of its founder Sir Probyn Innis and so we thought at least putting that on would be commendable and so we decided to work with the University of the West Indies who are the persons who normally sponsor it and so they have again this year and we thank them very much and they have decided to put it on but instead of the live event that we normally do, we’ve decided because of the Covid-19 situation that we’ll do it in a virtual format.”
He explained that the format of the lecture will include an open forum where persons can interact with the lecturer.
“The format we have is that we’ll first have an opening situation where we’ll have someone delivering remarks then there’ll be the introduction of the speaker and then we’ll have the speaker making his presentation which will be forty minutes after which the programme will be open for me to make their comments or ask any questions that they may have.”
Hanley also revealed the speaker chosen for the lecture and the topic.
“First of all we tried getting a local speaker in the medical profession to try to deal with the topic but unfortunately because of their involvement with the Covid-19-more than one, they were unable to work with us in this regard. So we thought maybe since UWI Open Campus was the ones who were sponsoring it they thought to go to their university campus to see if they can find someone and they were referred to an epidemiologist which is almost a perfect for this discussion and were directed to a gentleman by the name of –he’s a professor, John Peter Figueroa as I said epidemiologist and the topic is “A History of Epidemics in the Caribbean.”
He explained that the topic is significant because of the current situation with the pandemic so the committee saw it fit to choose a topic that will help people to understand and deal with the situation.
Persons interested in seeing the lecture, Hanley said the links are posted to the University of the West Indies Open Campus Facebook page.
The lecture will be on Tuesday March 7th at 7pm.
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