NFSD reports on 2017 AML/CFT awareness seminar; training workshop
Head Table participants (l-r) Moderator, Ms. Vincia Herbert, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Finance Hon. Vance Amory, Regulator of the Nevis Financial Services Department Ms. Heidi-Lynn Sutton, Facilitator, Mr. Stephen Platt and Regulator of International Banking James Simpson
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (March 16, 2017) — The following is a release from the Nevis Financial Services Department (NFSD)
The Nevis Financial Services (Regulation and Supervision) Department (NFSD) held its 12th Annual Anti-Money Laundering/Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Awareness Seminar and Training Workshop on March 06 and 07, 2017, at the Four Seasons Resort Nevis. The event was held under the theme “Increasing Awareness through Smarter Compliance – Forging New Connections to Combat Financial Crime.”
Bank loans
Published 23 March 2017
Buckie Got It…. let’s touch the loan process with all banks. It is time the banks stop telling their new and existing customers lies or mislead us.
Don’t let these banks fool you, they gives loans and make huge profit from this process. Look at the bank fees such as insurance, legal charge and interest rates etc.
After you go through the long process of questionnaires and credit checks, you finally get a call saying your loan has been approved. Of course you are now happy, so what do you? Go and write checks, borrow funds from a friend, start using your own funds because you know this loan has been approved.
SDA Charlestown membership donates equipment to Alexandra Hospital
Senior Pastor and Island Coordinator of the Seventh Day Adventist Church Stanton Adams presents lab equipment to Hospital Administrator Gary Pemberton at a ceremony at the Alexandra Hospital on March 15, 2017NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (March 16, 2017) — Service at the Outpatient Department at the Alexandra Hospital will be enhanced, thanks to the donation of a haemoglobin analyser and a white blood cell analyser, from the membership of the Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) in Charlestown.
Mr. Stanton Adams, Seventh Day Church Senior Pastor and Island Coordinator presented the equipment to Hospital Administrator Gary Pemberton, at the hospital on March 15, 2017. He said the gesture is part of the church’s outreach programme “Helping Humanity”, a mandate of the world faith-based organisation, part of whose teachings and philosophy is based on wellness and health.
Min. of Social Development to host Regional Women’s Forum
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Hon. Hazel Brandy-Williams, Junior Minister in the Ministry of Social Development on Nevis
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (March 17 2017) – In keeping with its continued commitment to women’s empowerment within the context of the new Sustainable Development Agenda, the Ministry of Social Development in collaboration with the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) will on March 22-23 2017, convene a two-day Regional Women’s Forum. It will be held at the Mount Nevis Hotel from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The initiative, which is the brain child of the Junior Minister of Social Development in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), Hon. Hazel Brandy-Williams, is part and parcel of her and her Ministry’s thrust to encourage women to take a more active role in leadership and to examine best practices throughout the region for implementing priority areas of development for women and girls.