Politics

Published 20 June 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News.

PM Harris skips CPA meeting in St. Kitts, fifth for 2017

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, June 19^th 2017 – Absent again. The Federation’s Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris was notably absent from another important regional meeting, the fifth in the past six months.

St. Kitts and Nevis is hosting the 42^nd Regional Conference of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) with nearly 100 delegates and observers from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom and Canada.

But Prime Minister Harris was absent from this meeting and his remarks were presented instead by Acting Prime Minster, the Hon. Shawn K. Richards.

No reason was given for the absence of Dr. Harris at the CPA conference, the first to be held here since 2000.

Read More...

Published 19 June 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DR. DENZIL L. DOUGLAS, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 42^nd REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION –

Read More...

Published 17 June 2017

National Security official not proud of crime statistics in St. Kitts and Nevis

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 17TH 2017 – Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Mr. Osmond Petty has admitted that crime statistics in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis are not to be proud of.

Mr. Petty’s statement comes following the tragic discovery in a shallow grave of the decomposed body of 17-year-old Basseterre High School student Leanna Napoleon who went missing on May 9th. Napoleon’s death brings the number of murders in St. Kitts and Nevis to 15 for 2017.

Read More...

Published 17 June 2017

St. Kitts and Nevis opposition hopes CPA can help bring end to Speaker Michael Perkins “stifling democracy”

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 17TH 2017 –Opposition Member of Parliament in St. Kitts and Nevis, Hon. Marcella Liburd hopes next week’s 42nd Regional Conference of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) in St. Kitts can help to iron out several concerns about the rulings of the Speaker of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly, Hon. Michael Perkins.

Read More...