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(Charlestown, Nevis, MAY 30TH 2007)

Mr. Alastair Yearwood, the Advisor to Tourism in the Nevis Island Administration,  will be among OECS Tourism Ministers attending the OECS Tourism meeting being held in Grenada from May 31st to June 1st.  Mr Yearwood is attending the meeting in  the absence of the Premier of Nevis, the Hon. Joseph Parry, who is off Island attending the Caribbean Development Bank Meeting in Caracas, Venezuela.

 Mr. Yearwood will join Ministers and Directors of Tourism from OECS member states as well as representatives from the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) and the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO).

On the agenda for discussion are the following: The impact of HIV/ AIDS on the Tourism sector, Air and Seaport transportation and the establishment of an OECS Cruise Tourism Task Force.

The Council will also review the sub region’s hosting of Cricket World Cup 2007 and the post-event measurement of its economic impact. Four OECS member countries namely: Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St. Kitts, and St. Lucia hosted ICC 2007 Cricket World Cup matches while  St. Vincent and the Grenadines, staged warm up matches.

Another important issue to be reviewed will be Grenada’s progress in the tourism sector following hurricanes Ivan and Emily.

Minister of Tourism for Grenada, the Honourable Clarice Modeste Curwen, will chair the Council which will also look at the OECS Secretariat’s tourism work programme for 2007 – 2008.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 30th 2007 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis’ Minister of State for Finance, Sen. the Hon. Nigel Carty is leading the Federation’s delegation to the 37th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

Premier of Nevis and Minister of Finance in the Nevis Island Administration, Hon. Joseph Parry, Deputy Financial Secretary in the Federal Government, Mr. Calvin Edwards and Nevis’ Financial Secretary, Mr. Laurie Lawrence are also attending the meeting being held in Caracas, Venezuela,

The Board of Governors Meeting on Wednesday, May 30 and Thursday, May 31, 2007, at the Radisson Plaza Eurobuilding Hotel in the Venezuelan capital, is highlight of a week of activities taking place.

It was  preceded by a meeting of the Bank’s Board of Directors on Monday, and the 24th Annual Meeting of Contributors to CDB’s Special Development Fund, the concessionary window from which grants, as well as loans on more favourable terms than from the Bank’s ordinary operations, are made to CDB’s borrowing members.

The William G. Demas Memorial Lecture honours the memory of CDB’s second President, was also be held prior to the Governors’ meeting.

The Board of Governors is the highest policy-making body of CDB, and meets once a year to review the operations of the Bank and make major policy decisions. Each member country of the Bank is represented on the Board of Governors. Newly-admitted member, Haiti, which previously enjoyed observer status, will be represented as a participant for the first time.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 30th, 2007 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis’ Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Cedric Liburd is spearheading the formation of a new global body of parliamentarians committed to the principle of the sustainable use of the world’s marine resources.

Minister Liburd, who is in Anchorage, Alaska, attending the 59th International Whaling Conference (IWC) said that the organization would focus its attention on global fisheries development and the utilisation of fish to guarantee food, security, especially in developing countries.

International journalist Tony Best in a report for Hardbeatnews in New York noted that while the impetus for this new global body came on the margins of the annual conference of the International Whaling Commission, first in St. Kitts and Nevis last year, it seems to be moving forward at the current 59th IWC meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, this week.

Minister Liburd, who is chairman of a working  group that is drawing up plans for the proposed body of parliamentarians, told a session of parliamentarians and the fisheries experts of like-minded countries, that the creation of the new entity was vital to the effort designed to promote sustainable use of marine resources globally. Read the rest of this entry »

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