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Published 12 July 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News.

Dr. Denzil Douglas hails work of recipient of twelfth Triennial Award for Women

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 12^TH 2017 – Former St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister The Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has hailed the CARICOM award to Jamaican Ms. Shirley Pryce.

Delivering the feature address at a “Women’s Political Leadership and Participation in the Commonwealth Caribbean” – Commonwealth Expert Validation Workshop in Barbados, Dr. Douglas praised CARICOM’s efforts to recognize outstanding female leadership in the Caribbean.

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Published 12 July 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News

Dr. Joseph Christmas called for the protection of St. Kitts’ water table

BASSETERRE, ST.KITTS, JULY 10^TH 2017 – St. Kitts-born Dr. Joseph Christmas, who called for the protection of  St. Kitts’ largest water table rose from Head of the Water Department in St. Kitts and Nevis to become Global Chief of Water at the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) based in New York.

In 1973, Dr. Christmas, who hailed from Saddlers Village, wrote the thesis entitled: “Hydrogeology of an unconfined Coastal Aquifer System Basseterre Valley, St. Kitts.”

The thesis was submitted by Dr. Christmas for his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of the West Indies Geology Department, University of the West Indies. 1977.

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Published 11 July 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News

Hensley Daniel slams Mark Brantley for allowing dialysis units to rot on Alexandra Hospital grounds

CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, JULY 10TH 2017 – Former Minister of Health in the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) administration, Mr. Hensley Daniel, has accused his successor, Hon, Mark Brantley, of refusing to install two dialysis unit which arrived in Nevis four years ago.

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