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PM Harris to STEP workers: Work diligently to justify government’s spending on the programme

Published 13 December 2018

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PM Harris to STEP workers: Work diligently to justify government’s spending on the programme

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 13, 2018 (S.T.E.P.) — The Federal Government has since 2012 spent about $300 million on the People Employment Programme (PEP)/Skills Training Empowerment Programme (STEP), and Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy is beseeching workers on the programme not to take the opportunity they have for granted but to work hard.

Prime Minister Harris, who is also the Minister of People Empowerment under which Skills Training Empowerment Programme (STEP) falls, has said that there are over 2,500 persons in the programme who are being paid every week, costing the government more than four million dollars a month.

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Full Text: Prime Minister Harris’ 2019 Budget Address

Published 13 December 2018

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Full Text: Prime Minister Harris’ 2019 Budget Address

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/071331ef9c500f62b34934521/files/5b99b449-caf6-485e-8e60-14f953e130c8/2019_Budget_Address_.pdf

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NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART BHS LAUDED AS ONE OF THE MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY

Published 13 December 2018

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NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART BHS LAUDED AS ONE OF THE MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 12, 2018 (SKNIS): The imminent construction of the new state-of-the-art Basseterre High School (BHS) is one of the Government of National Unity’s major accomplishments, said Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris during his 2019 Budget Address on December 12.

A major achievement by the Government of National Unity was to solve the ongoing problems associated with the BHS at its former compound in East Basseterre, which “became a health hazard causing physical and emotional harm to students and teachers at the school,” said the prime minister.

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FORMER BASSETERRE HIGH SCHOOL (BHS) ALSO SITS ON BASSETERRE VALLEY AQUIFER

Published 13 December 2018

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FORMER BASSETERRE HIGH SCHOOL (BHS) ALSO SITS ON BASSETERRE VALLEY AQUIFER

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 12, 2018 (SKNIS): The former Basseterre High School (BHS), located at Victoria Road, Basseterre, sits on the Basseterre Valley Aquifer. The soon to be built state-of-the-art BHS at Pond’s Extension in East Basseterre will also be built on the Basseterre Valley Aquifer. So, what is the controversy?

Some claim that the Basseterre Valley Aquifer will be contaminated by the building of the new BHS on it, while respected experts in the field, including a group of top experienced water engineers, who did the feasibility studies, say that the water contamination risk is literally non-existent.

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GOVERNMENT TO GRADUALLY REPURCHASE LANDS SOLD UNDER CONTROVERSIAL LAND-FOR-DEBT SWAP

Published 13 December 2018

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GOVERNMENT TO GRADUALLY REPURCHASE LANDS SOLD UNDER CONTROVERSIAL LAND-FOR-DEBT SWAP

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, December 12, 2018 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has announced its intention to gradually repurchase portions of the lands sold under the controversial Land-for-Debt Swap arrangement initiated by the former Denzil Douglas Administration.

In 2012, former Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas presented and piloted the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank Limited (Vesting of Certain Lands) Bill, 2012, in the National Assembly, which provided for the vesting of 1,200 acres of government land to the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank to settle $900 million of debt with the bank. The Bill was passed on September 21, 2012.