Published 10 November 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News

Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport St. Kitts Meteorological Services

St. Christopher Air & Sea Port Authorities P.O. Box 963
Basseterre
St. Kitts
Tel: 869 465 2749
Friday 10th November, 2017 Present Weather: Cloudy skies with a light passing shower
Winds: A Gentle breeze of 5mph from the Southeast.
Temperature: 26°C/78°F Max Temp: 30°C/86°F Humidity: 80% Sea Level Pressure: 1011.8mbs or 29.88″
24hr rainfall at the R.L. Bradshaw Intl. at 2 pm: Trace
Amount of rainfall for the month of November: 22.4mm / 0.88″ Sunrise: Tom 6:12am Sunset: Tom 5:37pm

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Published 10 November 2017

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Former St. Kitts resident Dianne Marshall-Holdip dies of cancer at 61

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 9, 2017 – Former East Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) and Social Security employee, Dianne Marshall-Holdip, has passed away.

Mrs. Holdip, wife of Barbados High Court judge, Justice Malcolm Holdip for 34 years, was assistant registrar at the Hugh Wooding Law School for the past ten years.

She passed away at 11.05 am at the St .Clair Medical Complex on Tuesday morning. She was 61.

Mr. Holdip told Newsday, as a cancer patient and with her energy levels reduced considerably, his wife went to the centre for a transfusion but in less than 24 hours she was gone.

Dianne had colon cancer which eventually spread to her liver and, according to Holdip, it got more viral and aggressive in nature. The Holdips found out about her condition only earlier this year.

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Published 10 November 2017

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Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada citizenship programmes ahead of St. Kitts and Nevis’

St. John’s, Antigua, November 9, 2017 – Antigua and Barbuda is boasting that its Citizenship by Investment Programme has been ranked #1 in the Caribbean while Grenada and St. Kitts and Nevis are ranked second and third respectively.

According to the Global Residence and Citizenship Programme (GRCP) 2017–2018 report, St. Kitts and Nevis is also ranked sixth among the eight countries evaluated, trailing Malta, Cyprus, Austria, Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada.

The programmes in the third edition of the GRCP were evaluated by a distinguished panel of independent experts – including immigration and citizenship lawyers, economists, country risk experts, academic researchers and other specialists.

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Published 10 November 2017

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Ross University medical students from Dominica to relocate from St. Kitts to Tennessee for winter

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 9 2017 – Several reasons are being given for the decision to move more than 1,400 students, faculty and staff from Dominica’s hurricane wrecked Ross School of Medicine (RUSM), currently studying on a cruise ship moored at St. Kitts to Knoxville, Tennessee, USA for their coming winter semester,

Some of the students who have been worshipping on Sundays at the Immaculate Conception Co-Cathedral in Basseterre, have been complaining of several uncomfortable living and studying arrangements on board the cruise ship and the ship having to leave Port Zante and berth at the deep water port or anchor offshore despite assurances from the authorities to remain at Port Zante.

RUSM plans to relocate from its temporary St. Kitts home on the cruise ship GNV Excellent to facilities owned by Lincoln Memorial University.

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