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PM Harris cannot be trusted on crime figures

Published 13 July 2017

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PM Harris cannot be trusted on crime figures

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 13^TH 2017 –Dr. Terrance Drew, the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) caretaker for St. Christopher 8 said Prime Minister Harris in his capacity as Minister of National Security, cannot be trusted when he provides figures on crime for St. Kitts, pointing out previous statements were found to be grossly false.

He noted while Dr. Harris was boasting to the nation that crime was trending downwards, statistics released by Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ian Queeley indicated a near 60 percent increase in crime in 2016 over 2015.

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“International Media Raise Deception Issue In Appointment of New Security Adviser for St Kitts & Nevis”.

Published 13 July 2017

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“International Media Raise Deception Issue In Appointment of New Security Adviser for St Kitts & Nevis”.

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 13^TH 2017 – Texas-based Caribbean News Now has highlighted the absence to references by St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris to the role played by his newly-appointed national security advisor, retired Major General Stewart Saunders, in the Tivoli Gardens Massacre in 2010, the same year he retired.

“However, left unexplained by Harris were the findings of a commission of inquiry set up in the aftermath of the so-called Tivoli Gardens Massacre in Kingston in 2010, which accused Saunders of dereliction of duty and incompetence,” Caribbean News Now noted.

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Former chairman of PM Harris’ PLP says he “lived much better under Douglas’ Labour Party”

Published 12 July 2017

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Former chairman of PM Harris’ PLP says he “lived much better under Douglas’ Labour Party”

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 12TH 2017 – Douglas, Wattley, the former chairman of Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris’ co-ruling Peoples Labour Party (PLP) says life was better under former Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas’ St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) and every change is not for good.

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Two more Nevisian youths to benefit from MUA/NIA Scholarship

Published 12 July 2017

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Two more Nevisian youths to benefit from MUA/NIA Scholarship

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (JULY 05, 2017) — Oresia Stapleton and Yolinda Liburd join the list of students who benefit from the Medical University of the Americas/Nevis Island Administration (MUA/NIA) Scholarship, a facility which is available since 1998.

They were announced as the annual scholarship’s awardees for 2017 by Mrs. Nicole Slack-Liburd, Chairperson for the MUA/NIA Scholarship Committee and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, at the Legal Department’s conference room on July 05, 2017.

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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.