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The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris announced this week that based on the cluster of 16 new cases of COVID-19, the first of which was reported on May 19, 2019, involving a national with no travel history, the Government would immediately enact a series of initiatives in an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Currently, the Federation has a total number of 64 confirmed COVID -19 cases with 45 cases fully recovered and zero deaths. The 19 new patients are stable and are being monitored. While the extensive contact tracing…

Eminent Professor of Economics and Innovation, Mariana Mazzucato will outline how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can rethink their approach to innovation to build more resilient and competitive economies when she delivers the 2021 William G. Demas Lecture on Tuesday June 15, to start the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) 51st Annual Meeting.   Utilising the theme, “Rethinking Innovation; Reimagining the Future,” the highly anticipated address will seek to make innovation more relevant to SIDS and to demonstrate how the concept can be used to reposition regional economies for the future and to address the vulnerabilities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.…

The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis – through the National Covid-19 Task Force – hereby advises that the travel advisory originally issued on February 7, 2021 and extended three times thus far, has been further extended for an additional 7 days, and becomes effective as of June 5, 2021. This advisory is intended for travellers from Brazil, the United Kingdom (UK), South Africa and India. The extension of this travel advisory comes as a result of the Government’s firm interest in continuing to protect our borders and the health and wellness of our citizens and residents in response to…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, June 04, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – As authorities and health professionals continue their diligent work to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease in St. Kitts and Nevis, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris said they are forced to fight “another pandemic best described as misinformation.” PrimeMinister Harris, who was at the time addressing the nation during his press conference on Thursday, June 03 at the NEMA Conference Room, was referring to the numerous attempts by some using traditional and social media platforms to disseminate false information regarding the…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, June 04, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – As authorities and health professionals continue their diligent work to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease in St. Kitts and Nevis, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris said they are forced to fight “another pandemic best described as misinformation.” PrimeMinister Harris, who was at the time addressing the nation during his press conference on Thursday, June 03 at the NEMA Conference Room, was referring to the numerous attempts by some using traditional and social media platforms to disseminate false information regarding the…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, June 3, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Fishers and farmers continue to do well in their trade as a result of a Team Unity Government’s direct intervention which has offered and continues to offer them stimulus packages, and Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris is pleading with the general public to support them by buying local produce. “I want to remind all of us to continue, or to start if we haven’t yet been doing so, to support our farmers and fishers by buying local produce,” said Prime Minister Harris. “At the same time I want to remind…

This afternoon, Thursday June 3, 2021, I wish to update you on the present COVID-19 situation.Within the last twenty -four hours we have recorded four (4) additional cases. These new casesare nationals and are referred to as Case # 75 through to Case # 78. The individuals are inisolation at a COVID-19 certified facility. These cases bring the total number of COVID-19confirmed cases to 78 with 64 cases for St. Kitts and 14 cases for Nevis. Please note that 51cases have fully recovered with zero deaths. There are now twenty-seven (27) active cases.These patients are stable and are being monitored.…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 3, 2021 (SKNIS): As the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis prepares to welcome cruise and other passengers back to its shores in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Medical Chief of Staff at the Joseph N. France (JNF) General Hospital, Dr. Cameron Wilkinson, said that science and data support ongoing testing and vaccination. “We follow science and we follow the data. And the Chief Medical Officer noted that from that time we had the outbreak we have had 30 positive cases from the testing of over 3,014 tests which gives us a positivity rate…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 3, 2021 (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, gave an update on the major construction projects within the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. During the Prime Minister’s Monthly Press Conference held on June 3, 2021, Prime Minister Harris stated that the construction sector is a large contributor to the local economy of the Federation. During the March 2, 2021 Edition of Leadership Matters, the Financial Secretary within the Ministry of Finance, Hilary Hazel said that the negative experiences that the Federation had gone through which saw the construction sector have…

The food in our supermarkets and our open markets come from numerous countries, and in the case of processed foods, each of the ingredients may themselves from come different countries. It is indeed, a global food web that keeps us fed. While we generally know very little about the people who produce, handle and process the food on the shelves of our supermarkets, for the most part, we do not worry about the safety of the items that we drop into our shopping carts and then take home to serve to our family and friends. What is it that underlies…