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JAMAICA: Dr Peter Phillips Elected PNP President

Published 29 March 2017

PHILLIPS … takes over as fifth PNP President

Peter David Phillips will become the fifth President of the People’s National Party by acclamation today.

Special delegates of the almost 79-year-old political party will gather at the National Arena in South East St Andrew to usher in the new leader, who will replace the veteran parliamentarian Portia Simpson Miller, following her recent decision to step down.

Phillips follows Norman Manley, the organisation’s first president, his son Michael Manley, PJ Patterson, and Simpson Miller as the persons who have held that distinguished office. All before him, except for Norman Manley, have become prime minister of Jamaica.

Local news, News

National Entrepreneurial Development Unit Launches Townhall Business Meetings in St.Pauls Community Center

Published 29 March 2017

Basseterre, St. Kitts, (27 March, 2017) – The National Entrepreneurial Development Division (NEDD), the business support unit of the Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, in its quest to help further develop the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise sector (MSME), has planned a series of community business meetings for the year 2017.

Crime/Justice, Local news, News

Man shot and Killed

Published 29 March 2017

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 28, 2017 (RSCNPF): Investigators from the Violent Crimes Unit (VCU) and Officers of Police Division “B”, are investigating a shooting incident in Newton Ground that occurred at about9.20pm on Tuesday (March 28).

International news, News

The U.S. Government Issues Travel Alert for French Guiana

Published 28 March 2017

Demonstrators hold hands during a meeting organized by education unions in front of the local education authority offices on March 27, 2017 in Cayenne, as part of general strikes on the French overseas territory of French Guiana. French Guiana was paralysed by a general strike on March 27, closing schools, disrupting airline traffic and further stoking fears of instability in the French overseas territory which has been gripped by protests since last week. (Photo credit: JODY AMIET/AFP/Getty Images)

By NAN Contributor

News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Tues. Mar. 28, 2017: The U.S. is warning its citizens against travel to a Caribbean nation that rarely ever makes it on to the State Department’s travel alert list.

Local news, News, Politics

GOVERNMENT SALUTED ON EFFORTS TO REALIZE FIRST YOUTH POLICY

Published 28 March 2017

Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 25, 2017 (SKNIS): Youth expert, Dwynette Eversley, has hailed the commitment of the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis and the staff of the departments responsible for youth affairs in St. Kitts and in Nevis for the outstanding efforts put forth in establishing the nation’s first ever youth policy.

The effort began in October last year when the Federal Youth Policy Initiative was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister responsible for Youth, Honourable Shawn Richards, alongside Honourable Hazel Brandy-Williams, junior minister of youth affairs in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA). Ms. Eversley was present at the time, having just arrived on island days earlier, assigned by the Commonwealth Secretariat to assist the policy drafting.