Published 7 May 2017
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VOTE! VOTE! For Miss. Teresa Dias, Miss. Black San’ local pageant 1st runner up who is currently St. Kitts and Nevis ambassador to be fast tracked to the top 5 in the Miss. Legacy International slated for this evening in Jamaica.
Published 4 May 2017
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 04, 2017 (SKNIS): The new Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Ron Dublin-Collins, said that he is settling into his role and is prepared to lead the staff and support the Minister of Labour in protecting the rights of workers in St. Kitts and Nevis.
“Our vision is to have a very strong and active department that supports the workforce, ensures that conditions within the workplace will lead to a progressive and strong labour force, [and] that … decent work conditions exist,” Mr. Dublin-Collins said. “That in itself creates a culture where individuals’ lives can improve.”
Published 30 April 2017
*Alert level raised with increased activity at Kick ‘em Jenny* _30-Apr-2017_
ST GEORGE’S – The National Disaster Management Agency is monitoring an increase in activities taking place at *Kick ‘em Jenny*, the region’s only submarine volcano located between Grenada and the Grenadine island of Carriacou.
In a release early Sunday, the disaster agency said it has been advised of the increase in activity by the Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI). “The UWI/SRC recorded a high amplitude signal, lasting about 25 seconds, on one of the Grenada stations. The signal was also recorded on a station in Montserrat. This signal follows an increase in the number of background events associated with the *Kick-‘em-Jenny volcano*,” said the release which confirmed that persons in the St Patrick’s area have reported feeling tremors.” As a result, the alert level is now on yellow and sea users and ships have been warned to stay away from vicinity of the submarine volcano.
In light of the ongoing we are advising all sea users that the 5km (3.1 miles) exclusion zone of *Kick ‘em Jenny* be strictly observed. The SRC has advised that heightened alert is necessary for the exclusion zone,” the release added. A yellow alert means the volcano is restless; seismicity and/or fumarolic activity are above the historical level or other unusual activity has been observed or can be expected without warning. *(CMC)*
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Published 25 April 2017
By Ken Richards
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) — The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) states of St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia and Grenada are among Caribbean states being criticized by a regional head of state for not having replaced the London-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice as their final appellate court.
Four countries: Guyana, Barbados, Belize and Dominica are the only ones to have so far acceded to the CCJ’s appellate jurisdiction.
The rest of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is being accused by Trinidad and Tobago president Anthony Carmona of dragging their feet on a matter he considers at the heart of Caribbean pride.
The former judge has expressed disappointment with that state of affairs, and is questioning the delay by most CARICOM nations in moving away from the British Privy Council.
Carmona is quoted as saying, “Perhaps the day will finally come when we can all take pride in, and responsibility for, defining, shaping, writing and ultimately, rewriting our own jurisprudence and laws in the context of our own peculiarities and the relationships among our own member states.”
The Trinidad and Tobago’s head of state articulated his concern about an apparent lack of confidence in the CCJ’s appellate jurisdiction by several Caribbean states during a lecture at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus last week.
Public support in Grenada for the Caribbean court failed to materialize in a recent referendum in the Spice Isle.
Antigua and Barbuda is expected to hold a public vote on the CCJ in the near future.
Published 25 April 2017
By Ken Richards
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) — Efforts by one American state to officially label St Kitts and Nevis a foreign tax haven are being strongly objected to by the federation’s foreign affairs minister, Mark Brantley, thus joining Antigua and Barbuda in a similar protest.
A proposed House Bill 3419 in the state of Illinois has listed St Kitts and Nevis and 17 other Caribbean countries as a “foreign tax haven” and, if passed, would impact negatively on them.
