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Gloomy Christmas for scores of families in St. Kitts and Nevis as PM Harris’ office despatch termination letters

Published 6 December 2017

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Gloomy Christmas for scores of families in St. Kitts and Nevis as PM Harris’ office despatch termination letters

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 6, 2017 – It will be a gloomy Christmas for scores of persons working for the Team Unity Government of St. Kitts and Nevis.

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West Basseterre MP raises the probability of corruption in ballooned cost of second cruise pier

Published 6 December 2017

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West Basseterre MP raises the probability of corruption in ballooned cost of second cruise pier

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 6, 2017 – West Basseterre MP, Hon. Konris Maynard is questioning the new price tag of the new cruise pier in St. Kitts.

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SKNLP says PM Timothy Harris has taken St. Kitts and Nevis from 7% GDP in 2014 to 1.93% in 2017

Published 5 December 2017

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SKNLP says PM Timothy Harris has taken St. Kitts and Nevis from 7% GDP in 2014 to 1.93% in 2017

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 5, 2017 – Ahead of Budget Day in St. Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday, the opposition St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) says Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris “has proven irrefutably that he and his Cabinet are incapable of maintaining the economic growth and progressive pace of development at which the Labour Party administration had the country going.”

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Despite getting their papers late, Opposition members will attend Wednesday’s Budget session Wednesday

Published 5 December 2017

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Despite getting their papers late, Opposition members will attend Wednesday’s Budget session Wednesday

Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 5, 2017 – Members of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition intend to be present at Wednesday’s Budget Session of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly “despite the government’s anti-democratic attempts to keep us out,” according to Deputy Political Leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), Dr. Earl Asim Martin.

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Cruising for a bruising! Two elderly American ship passengers throw punches in a brawl sparked by a row over a beach UMBRELLA and a spilled beer in St. Kitts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5148389/Two-tourists-brawl-St-Kitts-umbrella.html #

Published 5 December 2017

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Cruising for a bruising! Two elderly American ship passengers throw punches in a brawl sparked by a row over a beach UMBRELLA and a spilled beer in St. Kitts

An unruly man was apparently upset because he didn’t get an umbrella & chair
That man starts to fuss at one of the beach patrol officers at the St Kitts beach
Another man then chimes in and tells the man to ‘shut the f**k up and sit down’
The angry man then dumps over the other man’s beer as the fight erupted
Two US tourists threw punches over a spilled beer and a beach umbrella while visiting the Caribbean.

The men were on a cruise excursion in St Kitts in October when the altercation occurred in front of beachgoers.

One man, who was wearing a black backpack, became angry with beach staffers after he didn’t receive a chair and an umbrella.

‘I’m so sorry,’ the beach patrol officer is heard telling the man who continues to fuss about the umbrella. ‘It has nothing to do with us,’ she tells the man.

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