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Published 27 September 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source 

Looking back and planning for the future important to the independence journey, says Douglas

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, SEPTEMBER 27TH 2017 – St. Kitts and Nevis has not arrived at this point in its independence journey without looking back and planning for the future.
Such were the words of political leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas when asked Tuesday to reflect on the recent celebration of National Heroes Day, which was marked by a well attended wreath laying ceremony despite inclement weather.

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Published 27 September 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source 

Second prisoner stabbed at HMP in three days; visitations suspended

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, SEPTEMBER 27TH 2017 – Minister of National Security, Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris has lost control of Her Majesty’s Prison.

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Published 26 September 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source 

Latin America Monitor predicts rising oil prices and wider current account and fiscal deficits in the ECCU economies

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, SEPTEMBER 25TH 2017 – Rising oil prices and the end of the PetroCaribe programme will result in wider current account and fiscal deficits in the economies of St. Kitts and Nevis and the other member states of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU).

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Published 26 September 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis Newd Source

HARRIS COMES UNDER LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OVER MOVE ON THE ST. KITTS-NEVIS CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

Thousands of local bloggers and callers to radio stations in St. Kitts and Nevis have forcefully decried the decision by Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris for suspending the Sugar Industry Diversification Foundation (SIDF) option and slashing by fifty per cent (50%) the value of the contribution option of the country’s Citizenship By Investment (CBI) programme. One caller to a local radio station remarked that after destroying the CBI programme for political purposes whilst in opposition, the Prime Minister is now using the passage of two hurricanes as a pretext to devalue our programme in the hopes of reviving it.

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Published 24 September 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

PM Harris’ action condemned by CBI consultant and renowned Caribbean diplomat in the US

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, SEPTEMBER 24TH 2017 – The recent decision by St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris announcing a drastic 50 percent cut in the investment requirement for its citizenship by investment (CBI) program, ostensibly to create a “hurricane relief fund” has drawn widespread condemnation, including one CBI consultant who described the move as shameful.

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