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Four bills receive first reading at Nevis Island Assembly sitting

Published 12 July 2017
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (JULY 06, 2017) — Three bills related to the Nevis Financial  Services Industry and one to the Ministry of Finance were tabled and received their first reading at a siting of the Nevis Island Assembly on July 06, 2017
The Bills – Nevis International Exempt Trust Ordinance, 2016,  Nevis Business Corporation Ordinance, 2017, Nevis Limited Liability Company Ordinance, 2017 and the Nevis Supplementary Appropriation (2016) Ordinance, 2017 were introduced by Hon. Vance Amory, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Finance.
 

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OPPOSITION MP KONRIS MAYNARD NAMED AND SUSPENDED FROM PARLIAMENT FOR GROSS DISRESPECT TO SPEAKER

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Published 12 July 2017

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OPPOSITION MP KONRIS MAYNARD NAMED AND SUSPENDED FROM PARLIAMENT FOR GROSS DISRESPECT TO SPEAKER

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 12, 2017 (SKNIS): The Sitting of the National Assembly on July 11 had gone on relatively smoothly but Member of Parliament (MP) for St. Christopher Three, the Honourable Konris Maynard, spoiled the day when he was called out, named and suspended from the hallowed chamber for gross disrespect and defiance to Speaker Honourable Michael Perkins. This is the second time that MP Maynard has been asked to take leave of the Parliament for gross disrespect to the Chair, the first being on May 23 of this year.

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

Published 12 July 2017

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

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 12TH 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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Dr. Joseph Christmas called for the protection of St. Kitts’ water table

Published 12 July 2017

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

BASSETERRE, ST.KITTS, JULY 10TH 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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Hensley Daniel slams Mark Brantley for allowing dialysis units to rot on Alexandra Hospital grounds

Published 11 July 2017

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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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