
GENERAL NEWS


Federal Minister, Ian ‘Patches’ Liburd continues to flout parking regulations.
Basseterre, St Kitts, December 8, 2019 – Federal Minister of Public Infrastructure, Post, Urban Development, Transport and Energy, Hon Ian Patches Liburd, continues to flout regulations at the Robert L Bradshaw International Airport. “On Saturday, [….]

Low passenger loads responsible for AA two-week suspension and poor marketing strategies for Sun Country pull out?
Basseterre, St Kitts, December 8, 2019 – A stakeholder in the hospitality industry is “tired and fed up of the deception and lies that now seem to come from every government ministry and department.” “We [….]

“Coral Princess” anchors in the Basseterre Roadstead while the EC$150 million second cruise pier “lay wasted”
Basseterre, St Kitts, December 5, 2019 – Despite glowing headlines around the world which read, “St Kitts opens a new cruise pier in Basseterre” in the Travel Weekly, “Multi-million Cruise Pier Opens at Port Zante [….]

Browne: Term limits bill designed to bar opposition leader Dr Denzil Douglas from becoming Prime Minister again.
Basseterre, St Kitts, November 27, 2019 – Thursday’s sitting of the St Kitts and Nevis National Assembly to debate proposed legislation to limit persons from serving more than two terms as prime minister is part [….]

Cabinet ministers, coalition party leaders boycott PM Harris’ church service; tenure rocked by nepotism and scandals.
Basseterre, St Kitts, November 26, 2019 – Several Cabinet ministers and coalition partners boycotted Saturday’s service at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Molineux , held to commemorate 26 years of parliamentary representation by Prime Minister [….]

Piece of bedrock reportedly hampering use of the EC$148.5 million second cruise pier.
Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 25, 2019 – Constructiion of the nearly EC$150 million second cruise ship pier at Port Zante is complete but there is no word when it will be used by the dwindling [….]

Primary and secondary students in St Kitts and Nevis will get laptops when Labour returns to office in 2020.
Basseterre, St Kitts, November 25, 2019 – Students attending the Grade 5 of primary schools and high schools in St Kitts and Nevis will once again be the recipients of their personal laptops when the [….]

Still waiting on Tourism Minister Lindsay Grant to deliver the underwater hotel.
Basseterre, St Kitts, November 24, 2019 – An underwater hotel for St Kitts, promised Federal Minister of Tourism, Hon Lindsay Grant, is still to materialise. Mr Grant made the promise in February 2018 that an [….]

Douglas Wattley: Timothy Harris has destroyed the St Kitts-Nevis economy; GDP dives into negative territory, says ECCB.
Basseterre, St Kitts, November 24, 2019 – Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris has been accused of destroying the strong St Kitts and Nevis economy that he inherited from former Prime Minister and Minister [….]