Author: Staff

Published 5 October 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 04, 2017 (SKNIS): Government is still set to improve the conditions of some 1200 plus Government Auxiliary Employees (GAE), once called Non-Established Workers, as stated by Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, during his monthly press conference on October 03.

Payment to the then Non-Established Workers ceased for a good number of years and Prime Minister Harris said that the issue has been outstanding for too long and it is important to ensure that it is corrected.

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Published 5 October 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source 

PM Harris refuses to release funds to run Office of the Leader of the Opposition; No diplomatic passport for Denzil Douglas

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 4TH 2017 – Nearly three years after his appointment as Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly, Dr. Denzil L. Douglas told the Nation Wednesday that Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris has not released funds to run the Office of the Leader of the Opposition as required by law and he has not been granted a Diplomatic Passport.

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Published 4 October 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source 

Livelihood of plumbers, electricians, heavy equipment operators  and food vendors will be affected says Dr. Martin

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 4TH 2017 – The Hurricane Relief Fund (HRF) option introduced by the Timothy Harris-led Team Unity Government has social and economic implications for St. Kitts and Nevis.

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Published 4 October 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

“Operation Phoenix: Caribbean Rising”

A Commentary by Ervin Welsh

I struggle to think of a time I felt more powerless than these last few weeks. My Caribbean Family had the luxuries, comforts and basic necessities of human life ripped from beneath them by hands they had no chance of fending off. Irma and Maria — among two of the most devastating hurricanes to barrel across the Atlantic Basin — left lives completely changed, lay bare the fragility of our pampered reality and thrust into eternal retirement, tens of us. My tiny twin-island federation of St. Kitts and Nevis was spared the wrath of these deadly storms but the few damages we sustained was, in other islands, the little that stood firm among the now completely ruined.

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