Published 29 November 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Police search for passenger who did not return to the Carnival Conquest when it sailed Wednesday
Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 29, 2017 – Police in St. Kitts and Nevis are searching for a cruiseship passenger who did not return to ship by the time it sailed from Port Zante Wednesday afternoon.
Published 29 November 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
PM: Double Salary Announcement On Thursday
Written by LK Hewlett
St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN); Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Timothy Harris says the Cabinet will make an announcement on Thursday (Nov 30) if the government will be paying a double salary to its employees in December.
Published 29 November 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source Ross University students to return to USA
By: Jermine Abel, SKNVibes.com
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – MINISTER of Tourism, Hon. Lindsay Grant has explained that the Government had challenges accommodating the Ross University students from Dominica who were relocated to St. Kitts following the passage of Hurricane Maria.
The students are currently living and attending classes onboard a ship docked at St. Kitts’s Port Zante.
However, their time here has been a challenging one, as very often the vessel has to sail further out in the Caribbean Sea so that visiting vessels can safely dock in St. Kitts.
According to Minister Grant, the challenge is owing to the bumper period over the next several months.
Published 29 November 2017
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Timothy Harris and Les Khan, architects of the race to the bottom of Caribbean Investment Citizenships programmes
Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 29, 2017 – Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and Les Khan, Head of the St. Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Unit can be described as the architects of the Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Programmes’ race to the bottom with the introduction of the ill-advised Hurricane Relief Fund?
Published 29 November 2017
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15 months after, Ministry of Health still to take up offer of free Nurse Call equipment
Ontario, Canada, November 29, 2017 – Fifteen months since Sandy Point-born Kittitian Joel Bartlett, who lives in Canada, informed the Ministry of Health of a donation, the equipment remains in the North American country.
“I made this post since September 2016. I donated the equipment to the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis. They were given to me free of cost with a value about $4000 Canadian for the hospitals on the islands,” said Bartlett in a FaceBook posting Wednesday.
Bartlett disclosed that he contacted the Ministry of Health.
“I called time after time and I send emails. During my visit in December last year, I took it again on myself and went and look at the existing Nurse Call system and made recommendations. My company gave them a quote on a modern system .I told them again, I would do the work for free once they pay for my ticket to come home,” said Bartlett.
“Today, the equipment is still in my apartment,” said Bartlett.
He said during a meeting on Tuesday by the VP of the company he was asked for an update.
“I felt so bad to tell him they never contact me to ship the equipment. I don’t want to throw anybody under the bus, but can somebody please tell the Ministry of Health, if they don’t want the equipment to email me, just like how they did in the past or let me take them back to my company,” said Bartlett.
