Category: Economics
Like many other Caribbean nations, Antigua and Barbuda still retains a colonial-era law criminalising consensual same-sex acts, but bit by bit, those laws are being challenged. In The Bahamas, private same-sex acts were decriminalised in 1991 ...
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AS one of his priority areas, the People’s Action Movement’s (PAM) candidate for Constituency Eight, Chesley Hamilton, is canvassing to have the water situation affecting the people of that district addressed. Cayon, ...
Basseterre, St. Kitts, (SKNIS): The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis is committed to the development of renewable energy within the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis said His Excellency Mr. Michael C. H. Lin ...
The Cabinet invited three officials from the Administrative office of LIAT to speak of its future role and expansion. Two officials were present while the third administrator joined virtually. In the proposed new LIAT, the ...
July 5 (Reuters) – The first Venezuelan crude cargoes sent to Europe in two years helped lift the OPEC nation’s oil exports by 61% last month after a series of setbacks earlier in the year, ...
Prime Minister Gaston Browne is urging regional countries to collaborate more to ensure the region is fully served both in maritime and air transportation, saying it is necessary for further deepening the regional integration process. ...
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, June 30, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, which through the St. Kitts Sustainable Destination Council of the Ministry of Tourism, first participated in the ‘Plastic Free July’ campaign ...
The Cabinet reviewed the ownership of homes that has increased significantly since it became the government eight years ago, certain that while government agencies have built more than 1000 homes, private contractors have been very ...
Maldives Meets With OECS On Support For UNHRC Candidacy Release – His Excellency Dr. Asim Ahmed, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, paid a ...
Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 22, 2022 (SKNIS): Minister of Public Infrastructure, the Honourable Eugene Hamilton, said that the goal of the Government is to have 100 percent of the energy supply in the country produced by ...
Are you ready for Carnival in Jamaica? With just a couple of weeks away the Carnival in Jamaica National Stakeholders Committee has announced the official calendar of events for the 2022 carnival season which is ...
One urban planning expert believes that detailed discussions should be held regarding government’s offer of registered ownership of land in Barbuda for just EC$1. Dr Asad Mohammed, who has worked in Antigua and Barbuda in ...
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (June 16, 2022) — At a recent forum hosted by the Department of Physical Planning on Nevis, Hon. Spencer Brand, Minister of Physical Planning and Environment, called on developers and prospective developers on the ...
The United Progressive Party (UPP) Leader is again chastising the Gaston Browne Administration for passing on the increase in fuel prices to consumers. Harold Lovell, who says he is not seeking to politicize the issue, ...
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (JUNE 13, 2022) – Premier of Nevis, Hon. Mark Brantley, Minister of Finance in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), has set the record straight by giving an account of how the NIA ...