Published 30 May 2017
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 30th 2017 – The Federation’s Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris was absent from another important regional meeting, the third in two weeks and the fourth known for the year.
As the current chair of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), Prime Minister Harris was scheduled to give remarks at a PANNCAP Regional Parliamentarians Forum in Kingston, Jamaica this morning but he never showed up.
Published 30 May 2017
Illegal sale of driver’s licences now under police investigation.
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 30th 2017 – A month after several persons were arrested for defrauding the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, another investigation is being launched into reports of the illegal sale of driver’s licenses on both islands.
Police Inspector Carl Caines who heads the Traffic Department in St. Kitts confirmed the investigation on Traffic Talk on local radio WINN FM’s Breakfast Show on Monday.
Published 30 May 2017
Government mum on plans by LIAT to stop flying to St. Thomas.
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS – May 30th 2017 – Three months after the announcement that LIAT – the Caribbean Airline – will stop flying between St. Kitts and Nevis and the United States Virgin Islands, there has been no statement from the Team Unity Government.
Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris, Tourism Minister Hon. Lindsay Grant and Minister of Aviation, Hon, Mark Brantley have been completely silent on the measures they intend to take to provide easier access for nationals and visitors between both destinations.
Published 29 May 2017
Judge rules court challenge by Team Unity/
PAM supporters an abuse of the process.
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 29th 2017 – High Court Judge Marlene Carter has ruled that an attempt by Team Unity/PAM supporters Mr. Rupert Earle and Mr. William Liburd to remove two Nigerian students and all Commonwealth citizens from the Register of Voters “an abuse of process of the court.”
Earle and Liburd by claim form filed on 13th January 2014, petitioned the High Court seeking a declaration that two Nigerian students – Oluwabunmi Jesufemi Ayorinde and Osanoto Akolade Samuel who were studying medicine in St. Kitts are not qualified voters; that a person entering the Federation as a student under the Immigration Act is not a person qualified to be registered as a voter; is not a resident under the Immigration Act and that a Commonwealth citizen entering St. Kitts and Nevis are not ordinarily resident in St. Kitts and Nevis so as to be registered as a voter under the National Elections Act.
Published 29 May 2017
Pundit: PM Harris playing political gimmickry, trickery and banditry in the appointment of a PAC.
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 29th 2017 – A political pundit is of the view that the request by Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris to Opposition Leader Dr. Denzil Douglas to name two members on the proposed Public Accounts Committee (PAC) “is in keeping with his modus operandi of deceit and deception.”
“It is just a glaring attempt not only to stall the process, but am of the firm view also one of window dressing to avoid embarrassment,” ahead of the upcoming 42nd Regional Conference of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) meeting here next month.
