Published 29 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Scumbo arrested as a suspect in the first double murder case of this year
(L-R) The male victim Taheba York (31) (FB name: Taheba Samuel) aka MABBLOW from SXM, but he was raised in Saint Kitts and the female victim Sabrina Martes (23).
Published 28 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis Nees Source
Allure of the Seas cancels several calls to St. Kitts’ Port Zante
BASSETERRE, ST.KITTS, AUGUST 28TH 2017 – The Allure of the Seas, one of the world’s largest cruise ships, has cancelled several calls to St. Kitts’ Port Zante.
The Allure of the Seas, then the world’s largest cruise ship, first visited St. Kitts on December 30th 2011.
Published 28 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Patrick Martin said he was not aware
of the herpes vaccine testing in 2016
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 28TH 2017 – Dr. Patrick Martin, who was Chief Medical Officer from October 1st 2004 to 16th June 2016 said Monday he was not aware of a herpes vaccine trial in St. Kitts and Nevis during that period.
Media reports in the United States state that St. Kitts and Nevis was involved in an off-shore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine from April to August in 2016.
Published 28 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Johns Hopkins says testing of an experimental herpes vaccine in St. Kitts from April to August in 2016 ‘unethical’
WASHINGTON DC, AUGUST 27TH 2017 – News that St. Kitts and Nevis was involved in the off-shore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine is being reported in the United States.
The report raises questions as to whether the Timothy Harris-led Team Unity administration was aware of the project, the dates of which coincide with an illegal and ethical stem cell programme abruptly halted by the sitting Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Patrick Martin when he learnt of the project, which he was unaware of. Martin was immediately removed from his post and sent on pre-retirement leave by the Timothy Harris Government.
Published 28 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Chamber’s Nevis Division breaks silence on murder of Benjamin Joseph, fifth businessman gunned down in 2017
CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, AUGUST 28TH 2017 – The shooting death of Nevisian businessman, Benjamin Joseph, has awakened a sleeping St. Kitts and Nevis Chamber of Industry and Commerce, at least its Nevis Division.
With 18 murders including seven on Nevis for the year to date, the Chamber, the St. Kitts and Nevis Bar Association, the St. Kitts Business Forum, the St. Kitts Christian Council, the St. Kitts Evangelical Association, the Nevis Christian Council, the Nevis Christian Council, the Nevis Teachers Union and the St. Kitts Teachers Union have all remained silent on the murders, even though four other small businessmen and a teenager were brutally murdered before Joseph’s killing.
