Published 21 June 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis.
The summer solstice is upon us: June 20th and the 21st will be the longest days of 2017 for anyone living north of the equator. If pagan rituals are your thing, this is probably a big moment for you. If not, the solstice is still pretty neat.
Published 20 June 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News.
St. Kitts and Nevis Opposition tells regional parliamentarians it will no longer
tolerate abuse and subjugation of its members by Speaker Michael Perkins
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 19TH 2017 Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas expressed concern Monday for the stability of democracy in St. Kitts and Nevis as a consequence of the abject irrationality and callous impartiality on display in the National Assembly.
Published 20 June 2017
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Basseterre, St.Kitts (June 20th 2017):- The fight against the decades old crime problem on St.Kitts-Nevis is becoming much more difficult for law enforcement officers with the recent meteoric rise in what is being labelled as FAKE CRIME NEWS. On a day when the federation’s security forces were grappling with the aftermath of the latest fatal shooting the circulation of “fake news” went into overdrive.
Published 20 June 2017
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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, June 19th 2017 – Absent again. The Federation’s Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris was notably absent from another important regional meeting, the fifth in the past six months.
St. Kitts and Nevis is hosting the 42nd Regional Conference of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) with nearly 100 delegates and observers from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom and Canada.
But Prime Minister Harris was absent from this meeting and his remarks were presented instead by Acting Prime Minster, the Hon. Shawn K. Richards.
No reason was given for the absence of Dr. Harris at the CPA conference, the first to be held here since 2000.
Published 20 June 2017
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Minister Ian Liburd storms out of CPA Meeting
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 19th 2017 – Unable to have his way, St. Kitts and Nevis Government minister, Hon. Ian Patches Liburd stormed out of the 42nd Regional Conference of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) when he was not allowed to have his way.
Protocol calls for the two front seats at the table be occupied by one member from Government and one from the Opposition.
Hon. Eugene Hamilton, the Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly and Mr. Liburd, the Minister of Infrastructure, occupied the seats.
Opposition MP, Hon. Konris Maynard went over and calmly told them that one seat was for the opposition.
