Published 29 October 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
The 2017 ICT Development Index compiled by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), ranked St. Kitts and Nevis 37 out of 176 countries.
Attorney General, the Honourable Vincent Byron, Minister with responsibility for Communications, said this while addressing a robust crowd at the Prime Ministerโs Open Forum held on Sunday, October 28, 2018 at the Edgar T. Morris Primary Schoolย in Tabernacle, St. Kitts.
โUnder the leadership of Prime Minister Harris, this country was able to deliver for you, the people, the type of advances in ICTs that other countries in the region donโt know about and canโt cope with,โ he said. โWe have put a brand new refurbished National ICT Centre at the CA Paul Southwell Industrial Park, equipped with about 40 technicians that operate with an innovation hub, software developers, etc. We train hundreds of public servants and private citizens in various aspects of computers and technology.
He described the development of ICT in St. Kitts and Nevis as dynamic, while at the same time referencing the countryโs tremendous achievement in 2016, when the Federation was recognized in Botswana, Africa with two awards by ITU for being one of the best in ICTs worldwide. The attorney general said that this is indicative of St. Kitts and Nevisโ newfound dynamism in ICTs under the Team Unity Administration. This, he said, is reflected in the fact that โSt. Kitts and Nevis received two out of the three awards.โ
Senator Byron continued, โThis is what we do every day in this country, for the people of this country, and we will not go backwards, always forward.โ
