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The Federation’s Politically Independent News SourceFriday, June 21st, 2019 Issue #1286

ROSS STUDENT SHOT IN ARMED ROBBERY

BRANTLEY ASKS FOR GREEN

PARDONED PRISONER BACK TO HMP

STORY ON PAGE 8..STORY ON PAGE 3...STORY ON PAGE 18 ...

‘FIRM RESOLVE’ NEEDED FOR CBI: HARRIS

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Young man dies after motorcycle

accident

By Monique Washington

The village of Butlers and the whole of Nevis is mourning the passing of Cleon ‘Clicks’ Dore, 33, after his fatal motorcycle ac-cident this week.

The energetic young man was known on the island for doing stunts on motorbikes, scooters and four wheelers.

According to the police report, on Monday at around 8:30am, Dore was heading into Charlestown from Gingerland. When he got in the vicinity of Brown Pasture, he overtook a passenger bus and collided with a motor jeep driven by Glennette Williams which was traveling in the opposite direction.

Dore sustained injuries to his head and was pronounced dead by the district medical examiner who was summoned to the scene.

In the aftermath of the accident, graphic pictures of Dore’s body laying under the jeep spread throughout the island.

A state of shock and sympathy swamped social media in recogni-tion of the young man’s death.

Premier of Nevis Mark Brantley

joined the Nevisian commu-nity in extending his deepest condolences.

“To the family of Cleon Dore aka Clicks on his tragic passing today in a horrifi c vehicular accident. Please let us remember them in our prayers,” Brantley said.

The Bath Village Community Club also expressed their sympa-thies to Dore’s family.

“On behalf of the President and Executive members of the Bath Village Community Club and the whole Bath Village Community extends Heartfelt Condolences to the Family of the late Cleon Dore aka Clicks. May the soul of our departed brother rest in eternal and heavenly peace.”

Dore’s death marks the island’s second road fatality this year.

Stuart David of Zion Village was the fi rst road fatality for the Federation for 2019.

David was driving his motorcy-cle on February 5 at about 2 pm in Chicken Stone when he col-lided with a pickup truck driven by Orvile Bartlette of Cole Hill, Gingerland. David was wearing a helmet at the time but was thrown from his bike and killed.

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Nevis geothermal project needs

fi nancing: Brantley By Monique Washington

The Nevis geothermal energy project is pick-ing up steam and needs just one component be-fore moving forward: a lot of money.

At a town hall meet-ing on Monday, Nevis Premier Mark Brantley said he had recent-ly spoken to Nevis Renewable Energy International (NREI), the company that has entered into an agree-ment with the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) and NEVLEC to provide renewable energy to the island.

“The project had some diffi culty. That diffi -culty had largely to do with the fi nancing for the production stage. They have done the exploration phase, that is done, the numbers are in and they are now looking for the fi nanc-ing,” said Brantley.

Brantley said the fi -nancing component will require help from the federal government and that he had been in conversation about it with Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris.

“I believe that compo-nent will be completed shortly,” he said.

Brantley said that once the fi nancing com-ponent is completed, “I plan to come back with something more tangible when it comes to timeline”.

Estimates for the cost of the geothermal project are said to be as much as US $60 million, a fi gure that Brantley has previous-ly said is beyond the capacity of the NIA. However, the premier

said the government is still committed to the project and it is still “on the cards”.

“We feel as if there is tremendous value in Nevis being able to say that it is the green-est place on planet earth. There is value in us reducing our carbon footprint for electricity generation,” he said

He argued that geo-thermal energy also has the potential to be exported to other is-lands in the region.

“Other countries export petroleum products, fossil fuel products I think we can get to a point where we are exporting green en-ergy and that is where we want to head,” he said.

Plans for geothermal energy go back to November 2015 when the NIA, NEVLEC

and NREI signed a power purchase agree-ment. The agreement provides for geother-mal resources on Nevis to supply 25 years of domestic baseload, renewable energy supply.

The fi rst phase of the project was to see nine megawatts of power generated that would immediately be ex-pandable to meet the ongoing power needs of Nevis and capable of exporting 40-50 megawatts of addition-al power to neighbor-ing islands.

In 2018 the NREI con-tracted GeothermEX to test the status of the geothermal well at Hamilton. GeothermEX provided well-testing services, including designing well tests and specify-ing instrumentation requirements.

Premier of Nevis Mark Brantley said at recent town hall that fi nancing would be needed to go forward with a

geothermal energy project.

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The “move” side, now in government have settled on a site in east Basseterre. This site is being objected to by the “stay” group, again on environmental grounds, this time that the site is on the aquifer and will become contaminated. The government seemingly has acknowl-edged the presence of the aquifer, but has off ered to using cutting edge technology to protect the aquifer and to replenish it. Sadly, the science is being drowned out by political noise.

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Culturama Junior

Pageant contestants

revealed By Monique Washington

The ten junior contes-tants who will be vy-ing for the 2019-2020 Culturama Mr and Ms Talented Youth pageant have been re-vealed and are ready for competition.

The contestants were revealed at the launch of the summer festival which took place on June 14 at the water-front in Charlestown.

Hundreds of persons lined the street of Charlestown to witness a mini street parade that took place before the offi cial launch.

The 45th staging of the summer festival will be held under the theme, ‘Love, Passion, Pride, Culturama 45’. Patron for the festival is cultural icon Felicia ‘Gladdis France’ Hicks.

Speaking at the

launch, Culturama 45 Chairman Antonio “Abonaty” Liburd said that this is the fi rst time in a long time that they are revealing the talented youth contes-tants at the launch of Culturama. The con-testants are usually revealed during the opening of the festival later in July.

Liburd thanked Shirley Wilkes and Joyce Moving, co-chairs for the Talent Youth

pageant, “for hav-ing contestants ready to be revealed”.

The contestants who will be participat-ing in the pageant are Zidane Hull and Anouska Newton rep-resenting Charlestown Primary School and sponsored by the Bank Of Nevis; Shamar Ottley and Tianna Griffi n representing the Joycelyn Liburd School and spon-sored by Pinney’s

Electrical Company; Brad George and Sanna Claxton repre-senting the Elizabeth Pemberton Primary School and spon-sored by Nevisian Association of Washington DC; Lishane Mattis and Kekona Charles rep-resenting the Ivor Walters School and sponsored by LEFCO; Zaquon Challenger and J’nyah Matthew representing the St. Thomas’ Primary

School and sponsored by National Caribbean Insurance.

The reigning Mr. and Ms Talented Youth are Tesean Newton and McKelsya Arthurton of the Charlestown Primary School.

The Talented Youth pageant is set to take place July 28 at the Cultural Complex. The festival will run from July 25 to August 6.

The ten junior contestants vying for this year’s Culturama Mr and Ms Talented Youth pageant have been revealed and are ready to compete.


Risks to CBI require resolve: HarrisBy Kenichi Serino

Citizenship By Investment (CBI) pro-grammes, including St. Kitts and Nevis’ which marks its 35th anniversary this week, face risks and challenges that must be met with “fi rm resolve” from the Caribbean re-gion, Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris warned this week, during the

4th Annual Caribbean Investment Summit held at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort.

Harris identifi ed the chal-lenges as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) policy options, the threat of European Union black-listing, constraints on cor-respondent banking and “the reputational risk of

these programmes to our country and most impor-tantly to the dignity and pride of our people.”

“These are some of the risks that require a fi rm resolve from our region. Focused and coordinated leadership is needed. We cannot shy away from this responsibility,” Harris said. Harris called on gov-ernments in the region with CBI programmes to

use “lobby and negotiat-ing machinery” and diplo-macy to have discussions with decision-makers and international partners.

“It is our duty to ensure that decision-makers else-where fully appreciate the impact of their decisions and policies in our region and for our CBI jurisdic-tions, and we must make the case strongly and boldly so that as a region

we continue to attract high net worth individuals.”

Harris called the region as ‘uniquely and ideally po-sitioned” to lead advances in the industry.

Harris added that the re-gion must also make clear that “citizenship is an hon-our, a privilege and pack-age of legal rights and obligations bequeathed to the economic citizen, and, for this, we expect of citi-zens by their conduct to add value to our nations and people.” He called on the Caribbean region to pronounce that it would always maintain the stron-gest due diligence pro-grammes regarding CBI, that it would cooperate with other nations and in-ternational organisations, as well as “never condone wrong or become a haven to illicit actors. We want persons not just of high net worth but of high integrity and excellent character to become part of our citizenry.”

Harris also called on greater “ingenuity, imagi-nation and innovation” for jurisdictions off ering CBI programmes. “After 35 years, we are called as a region to constantly in-novate and lead. We must not allow this momentum to lose pace. As a region, we cannot aff ord to fall behind,” Harris said.

Harris said he was

“assured by” the use of biometric data for appli-cants to strengthen securi-ty and verifi cation, “smart tech tools” for local devel-opers and the increasing use of online technology to provide authoritative information about CBI programmes and in-vestment opportunities. Harris said one innova-tion would also be “on-going discussions among regional stakeholders about the best way to le-verage existing regional institutions to strengthen the work of individual CBI jurisdictions.”

The annual Caribbean Investment Summit draws some 400 attend-ees comprising govern-ment offi cials, heads of CBI units, developers, as well as international mar-keting agents and service providers from around the world, including China, India, the Middle East, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Antigua and Barbuda hosted the fi rst two sum-mits in 2016 and 2017. The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis was se-lected as last year’s host after the regional partici-pants in the CBI industry decided that the hosting of the annual event should be rotated in order to en-sure equitable exposure and opportunities for all members.

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris has called for nations in the region with Citizenship by Invest-

ment programmes to rise to challenges with “fi rm resolve”.


Tentative date set for football playoffsBy Loshaun Dxion

The St. Kitts and Nevis Football Association (SKNFA) has set a tentative date of July 27 for the start of the much anticipated in-augural Super Six Playoff s that had been postponed due to a court matter.

Though the matter is

yet to be resolved, a decision was made in an SKNFA executive committee meeting on Thursday.

The inaugural Super 6 Playoff was scheduled to kick-off on May 29 but was postponed pending the outcome of the court matter brought by SOL IAS Conaree Football Club and Delwayne Delaney

against SKNFA.

This court matter will aff ect the outcome of the fi nal point stand-ings for the playoff s as the SKNFA hit SOL Island Auto Conaree with a 24 point de-duction after one of their players, Glenroy Samuels, stabbed a player for the Rams Village Superstars,

Raheem Francis.

On May 24, His Lordship Justice Eddy Ventose ordered that the 24 points deducted from SOL IAS Auto Conaree Football Club be restored, pending the outcome of sub-stantive High Court matter.

The SKNFA contested the court’s jurisdiction

to determine this mat-ter and has

lodged an appeal against this interim order and fi led a cer-tifi cate of urgency requesting that the ap-peal be heard in an ex-peditious time-frame.

Samuel was banned from football indefi -nitely and was crimi-nally charged with attempted murder.

In a letter to the associ-ation’s member clubs, General Secretary of the SKNFA Stanley Jacobs said the deci-sion to arrive at the new start date for the Super 6 Playoff took into account the SKNFA’s internation-al competitions and commitments.

He noted that the SKNFA has a very

active international schedule for 2019. St. Kitts and Nevis are to host Group B matches in the CONCACAF Women’s U20 Qualifi ers from July 13 to 21 at the Warner Park Stadium. Also coming is the U23 Men’s Olympic quali-fi cation scheduled to take place in Jamaica from July 17 to 21.

St. Kitts and Nevis will also host the CFU U14 Girls Challenge Series in August.

“The SKNFA wishes to assure our spon-sors, partners, patrons, member clubs and oth-er stakeholders that we are fully committed to ensuring that the fi nal stage of the National Bank Premier League is concluded in a time-ly manner,” Jacobs’ letter concluded.

File photo of the action from the SKNFA Premier Divi-sion game


Two from Ross University injured in armed robbery

By Kenichi Serino

Two Ross University students were injured, including one shot in the foot, during a rob-bery which saw the theft of a vehicle on Tuesday near West Farm.

St. Kitts and Nevis po-lice issued a statement

on Tuesday describ-ing the robbery of the two in West Farm who were driving on Island Main road from Ross University at the time.

Police said that at about 11:20pm Jason Ghuman of Mattingley and Hannah Abramson of West Farm were driving in a car owned by Ghuman

to Abramson’s residence.

“When they got to the residence of Adamson, they were approached by an armed assailant who demanded mon-ey. Ghuman exited the vehicle and the assailant opened fi re and shot Ghuman in his right instep while Adamson was grazed

by a bullet to the back of her head,” the po-lice said.

The gunman then stole and fl ed in Ghuman’s vehicle.

Both were taken to JNF hospital for treat-ment. Adamson was treated and released

while Ghuman re-mains warded in a stable condition.

The scene of the at-tack has been inves-tigated by police and evidence taken into custody.

Ross University con-fi rmed in an e-mail to

its staff and students that two members of its community were injured during a rob-bery and were taken to JNF Hospital.

It did not specify whether the persons robbed were staff or students.

Two Ross University students were injured during an armed robbery on Tuesday.


Prospective college students urged to attend Open Day event

By Monique Washington

The Ministry of Health in collabora-tion with the Ministry of Education will be hosting its Open Day next week to off er ad-vice and information to potential college

students as it relates to the MUA/NIA Scholarship.

The Medical University of the Americas (MUA) was established on Nevis in 1998 and a schol-arship agreement was formed during the

school’s inception with the Nevis Island Administration (NIA). Two persons are se-lected annually to be awarded the scholar-ship which is valued at up to US $22,500 per year.

The Open Day event

will be held on Wednesday at the Memorial Square in Charlestown from 10am to 3pm.

Shelagh James, com-munications special-ist for the Ministry of Health, said people interested in study should attend.

“I think it is a golden opportunity for anyone who is in sixth form wanting to go on to study. This is a step for them because it’s basically a scholarship programme that is of-fered to two successful persons on. As long as they have their re-quirements, this is the time for them to make the application,” she said.

James said that though there are only two scholarships that are being off ered, persons who apply and are unsuccessful can al-ways reapply next year when the scholarship becomes available

again.

“I know it’s only two scholarships but if you don’t succeed this year there is nothing there to stop you the follow-ing year. We have had people in the past that have applied, not been successful the fi rst time around but have been successful the second time. So don’t be disheartened,” she said.

James said potential students would also be educated on the proper way of fi lling out a col-lege application

“That is what this open day is all about. When they come to us we sit down with them we help them go through a dummy application form. We help them correct it,” James said.

The priority areas for the scholarship are nutrition, actometry, dental hygiene, en-vironmental health, health educators,

medical engineer-ing, occupational and speech therapy, chem-istry, special educa-tion, and social work.

To qualify for the scholarship one must be 18 years or old and a citizen of the Federation. They must have also obtained a minimum of fi ve CXC/CSEC subjects which include Math, English and a science subject.

Successful applicants must provide a police record along with proof of active involvement with community ser-vice, an essay, photo identifi cation along with an acceptance let-ter from the college.

The ministry will be accepting applica-tions until June 29. All applications must be typed and submit-ted as a hard copy. Successful applicants must maintain a grade point average of 3.0 to keep the scholarship.

Nevis Ministry of Health communications specialist Shelagh James

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It needed a nail-biting fi nish but Young Guns are the Cable and Wireless Sports and Social Softball Cricket champions after de-feating the Molineaux/Cayon team by four wickets in the fi nal on Sunday.

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SKN skips OECS tournament after

last minute changesBy Loshaun Dixon

The St. Kitts and Nevis Netball Association will fi eld a team to par-ticipate in the OECS/ECCB Netball

series this year due to last-minute changes made to the competi-tion, including one that would have required both islands of the Federation to fi eld a single team. President

of the St. Kitts and Nevis Netball Association Dion French in a press con-ference said that their non-participation was due to several matters that have arisen due to

changes in the league.

“This year’s tourna-ment has changed and during the process of the change countries such as St. Kitts and Nevis were unable to attend because it is an international series,” French said.

He said St. Kitts and Nevis would normally participate as separate entities as was done last year in the tourna-ment. However, one of the conditions this year is that they had to participate as a single country and not as sep-arate island teams.

French said previously the league was known as the OECS/ECCB U23 netball tourna-ment and age limits for the competitors had been changed.

“Most countries were unaware that the tour-nament had been re-branded and just in the last week we were aware that there was no age limit to the tournament. We were practising with a U23 squad and last week we were made aware that it was not a U23 tournament but an open tournament.”

French said there were other matters that arose and other countries

had expressed their concern with how the tournament was changed.

“There was no con-sultation and so sev-eral countries were at a disadvantage,” said French. “We were not able to adapt in a time-ly manner in order for us to participate in the tournament.”

French said that the team is instead going to prepare for next year’s tournament.

“We know what we have to do now, so next year we cannot say we are not partici-pating because we had not had enough time.”

French said it was the fi rst time in years a team from St. Kitts has not participated in this tournament.

The netball head said the team started prep-aration in January and it was only a week be-fore the women were scheduled to leave that they were told it would be an open tournament.

“I can state we met on June 1 and still had the intention of traveling and called in some of the players that we had who are over 23 and we know can make the

team,” French said.

However, he said it was not ultimately possible to compete as there were selection issues between both islands.

“It is not any fi nan-cial issues, it is not because we are not getting any support from the govern-ment or the National Olympic Committee. They have been most gracious to us over the past years,” said French.

French said that the constitution of the St. Kitts and Nevis Netball Association needs to be changed to address certain issues, especially as it relates to selection.

“The players are dis-appointed. Here is it they have been prac-tising for months and to be told that they will not be participat-ing it was sad for the association as well to break such news to the young ladies,” he said.

Hilerene Blanchette, the manager of the traveling team, thanked the young ladies for their com-mitment during the preparation period and also thanked sponsors for their contributions.

President of the St. Kitts and Nevis Netball Association Dion French speaking at a press briefi ng on Tuesday


King Meeko recognised by Queen By Monique Washington

Crefton ”King Meeko” Warner has been be-stowed the Queen’s Honor of Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE, for his contribution to Calypso and musical development. A rec-ognition he told The Observer he never thought he would have

received.

Speaking with The Observer on Wednesday, Warner said that though the MBE has not been of-fi cially bestowed yet, it feels good to be hon-ored for such a great achievement.

“It is a good feeling so to speak to give back to the country and to

be involved with keep-ing the culture and to contribute. Hard work does pay off and you see results when you work hard,” Warner said.

Warner was the lone Nevisian among the fi ve St. Kitts and Nevis nationals rec-ognised by the Queen last week for hon-ours. Warner said he

has been involved in Culturama for 43 years and has worked with junior calypsonians, senior calypsonians, talented teens, Queen contestants as well as teaching cultural edu-cation in schools and representing the coun-try abroad. He has won a regional Calypso competition and been the fi rst runner-up on another occasion.

Warner has been crowned Culturama Senior Monarch nines times and has also captured titles such as Kings of Kings, Tourism Calypso King and Caribbean Calypso King.

Warner urged people who have been work-ing hard in the arts to continue their eff orts for their country.

“It may seem to them that they are not see-ing any results but stay with it. You never know what will be-come. I never thought this would have hap-pened to me. I have received numerous awards and many

diff erent accolades, but I never thought a MBE would have been behind my name,” Warner said.

“Stay with it you never know what’s in it for you.”

Warner told The Observer that because of vocal issues he has not been able to sing on the Culturama Stage for a couple of years but with a current treat-ment he is looking for-ward to returning very soon.

“The same way persons wants to see me back on stage is the same way I want to be back on stage. With some treat-ment, I should be able to be back on stage. I am hoping that this will come true,” he said.

“But for now I will just wallow in my good feelings.”

The last Nevis Calypsonian awarded an MBE for his contri-bution to culture was Keith ‘Dis and Dat’ Scarborough in 2016. Four other nationals

of St. Kitts and Nevis were recognised this year by the Queen.

- - A m b a s s a d o r Constance Mitcham was recognised for her contribution to National Development and Law. She received the Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE)

--Dr Cameron Wilkinson was rec-ognised for his con-tribution to Medicine and was awarded the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)

--Offi cer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) was awarded to Denzil Crooke, for his contri-bution to Commerce and Business Development.

--Angeline Revan for her contribution to Education, Community and Public Service was awarded the (Member of the Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire (MBE).

Crefton ”King Meeko” Warner said he never expected to be bestowed the Queen’s Honor of Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE, for his contribution to Ca-

lypso and musical development.


Five CPL Game announced for Warner ParkBy Loshaun Dixon

The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has announced the fi x-tures for the 2019 sea-son, which will see the Federation host fi ve games at Warner Park starting September 10.

The season is sched-uled to begin from September 4 to October 12 and will see games played in Barbados, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Kitts & Nevis and Trinidad & Tobago. No games have been confi rmed in Guyana as yet.

The fi nals will be held in Trinidad and Tobago for the third straight year.

The games at Warner Park will bowl off on September 10 when the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots host their

former captain Chris Gayle and the Jamaica Tallawahs before tak-ing on the Barbados Tridents the following day.

They also host the Guyana Amazon Warriors and the

St. Lucia Stars on September 14 and 15 respectively before ending their homes-tand on September 17 against the Trinbago Knight-riders.

The team are to open their CPL campaign

on September 4 with a road trip against the Knight-riders to kick off the competition.

The CPL also an-nounced that selected tickets for this year’s tournament would be available for sale

online for games in Trinidad and Jamaica.

CPL CEO Damien O’Donohoe expressed his excitement about the upcoming season.

“We are delighted with how Hero CPL

continues to grow. Last season we saw more than 200 mil-lion viewers watch the tournament and Hero CPL also made a huge impact on the econo-mies of the countries we visited. We are cer-tain that this year we will see those numbers grow once again,” he said.

CPL COO Pete Russell said it was pleasing to get the fi xture list agreed to for this year.

“It is always a chal-lenge and we would like to thank everyone involved in helping to pull this all together.”

The new look Patriots team will be headlined by Sri Lankan all-rounder Isuru Udana and South African Russie Van Der Dussen.

File photo of a CPL game at Warner Park


Butlers Village

resident jailed for

18 monthsBy Monique Washington

A Butlers Village resident was sentenced to 18 months in prison this week, after only having been released in December from a 26-year stint behind bars. Maurice Weekes, 55, received a pardon in December of last year after having served 26 years in prison for in-decent assault.

However, he was back in court this week where he appeared before Magistrate Yasmine Clarke on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to bat-tery, assault and using threatening language.

Police Prosecutor, Inspector Joel Caines, in presenting the facts of the case said that last month Weekes was at a business establish-ment in Gingerland where he used a piece of black rubber to slap the buttocks of a woman, Denver Jones. Jones told the man that she does not know him and she will make a com-plaint to the police.

Weekes responded by telling the woman that if she did make a complaint, he knew where she lived and would kill her. The following day he returned to the same establishment and began to threaten Jones.

Jones decided to walk to the Gingerland po-lice station. Weekes responded by following her on the opposite side of the road.

Weekes admitted wrongdoing and told the court that he didn’t want Jones to reach the police station and threatened her by brandish-ing his knife.

“I don’t like the police. Every time I hear people say they are going to tell the police on me I feel like I am going to get a heart attack or hypertension or something,” Weekes told the court while grasping his chest.

Upon hearing the facts of the case and al-lowing Weekes to make a statement, Clarke sentenced Weekes to six months in prison for each count, with the sentences to run consecutively.

The court also heard other cases this week, including two people appearing on charges of possession of cannabis with intent to supply. Both men pleaded guilty to the charges and were fined.

Maurice Weekes was sentenced to 18 months in prison at the Nevis Magistrate’s Court this week.

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Busy weekend ahead as Music festival goes into full gear

By Loshaun Dixon

A busy weekend is ahead for the St. Kitts Music Festival as the fringe activities go into high gear ahead of the offi cial kick-off next Thursday at the Kim Collins Athletic

Stadium.

According to Music Festival public rela-tions offi cial Val Henry, this Saturday will be one of the busiest days for the festival with a number of fringe activi-ties scheduled. “June 22 is going to be a very

busy Saturday because we have the bar crawl, we have the Kore Band Jouvert Long Jam troupe launch at mar-ket shop in Gingerland, Nevis at around 6pm, and we will also have the Essence Of Hope Get Fit Walk,” he said. He said that the Essence

Of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation is organis-ing the walk for 5:30 in the morning at the War Memorial in Basseterre.

“We want everyone to pay attention to your fi tness in terms of that health walk and sup-port the Essence of

Hope Breast Cancer Foundation.”

Henry said the St. Kitts Music Festival is an “experience like no other” not only in terms of attending the concert but an experience for the country.

“I think having fun sometimes fools us into thinking what this is all about. This is about tour-ism and about business and this is about an op-portunity for us to show-case us as a destination,” Henry said.

The music festival fringe activities will also feature a comedy show dubbed ‘Belly Full a Laugh’, the SKN Athletics National Club Championships and multiple Culturama events.

“The inclusion provides added activities and opportunities for us to expose ourselves and to show the quality of the experience you could have in St. Kitts and Nevis,” Henry said.

He added that the festival has wanted to encourage

people who are having fringe activities to alert them early as opposed to organising them at the last minute.

“I was hoping that the fact that we launched historically the fi rst wave of artiste in early December last year that folks would understand that we mean business with early arrange-ments,” Henry said.

He also urged individu-als to buy their tickets early instead of waiting for the night of the show.

“We do not want people coming in on planes, [who] have their tickets which they bought on-line and you are vex with them because you see them moving smoothly into the venue,” Henry said.

The three-night con-cert of the St. Kitts Music Festival will run from June 27 to 29 and will feature acts such as Buju Banton, Ella Mai, Popcaan, Smokey Robinson, Nadia Batson and many more.

File photo of Music Festival press relations offi cial Val Henry

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Give us our day, our daily baguette

By Kenichi Serion

An event celebrating French baked goods from brioche to the baguette was held at the Alliance Française on Friday.

Alliance Française Director Marine Moncaut said the in-stitute has been in collaboration with Island Bakery for the past two years to produce French baked goods for their events. She said the Alliance wanted to make the baked goods more avail-able to the general public. Friday’s event was part of launch-ing a small-scale programme to sell French baked goods via the Alliance.

“We hosted that event because we have been having collaboration with Island Bakery for about two years now, getting some nice croissants, chocola-tines, and baguettes. It is important for us to be supportive to initiatives promoting the French gastron-omy on island,” said Moncaut.

Moncaut said that about 60 people at-tended the event and enjoyed the baked

goods as well as other French items. She called the qual-ity of the baked goods produced by Island Bakeries “really good” and were glad to be able to help pro-vide a regular supply of them for sale.

“The visitors were very well surprised to discover the va-riety of the breads proposed,” Moncaut said. “We are glad to promote it, to see the interest of the locals and very selfishly, to have them for break-fast as well!”

The visitors showed a lot of enthusiasm for the baked items and, after some introduc-tory remarks from Moncaut and Island Bakeries’ Franklin Brand began tucking into samples of bri-oche, bearclaws, rye bread, sourdoughs, challah, croissants and baguettes--which Brand said was a dif-ficult item to create.

“The French baguette, it is difficult to do this type of product here, you have to have the right ingredients,” Brand said.

He said that while this might be easy in Europe or the United States, it was difficult

to source in St. Kitts.

Brand said it was also not an easy bread to store and would begin to go stale after a day.

“It’s a bread you have to consume in a day if you want the full crustiness of it. And the next day you would have to go to the bakery and buy a fresh baguette,” Brand said.

“That’s good for busi-ness also,” he joked.

Brand said sourcing the flour for the rye bread was also a chal-lenge and he had to find a supply in St. Vincent as he did not buy in enough quan-tity to ship from the United States.

Orders for the French baked goods are be-ing done through the Alliance Française and the plan is to progress slowly.

“We’re going to do this thing slowly. There’s two challeng-es that we face in do-ing this. Getting the right ingredients is a logistical nightmare so we want to do this slow. Also finding the right people to do this sort of thing is ex-tremely challenging,” Brand said.

Workers from Island Bakeries and the Alliance Française re-stock samples at the event on Friday

Island Bakeries’ Franklin Brand describes the process of sourcing the ingredients to make French baked goods

Alliance Française St. Kitts and Nevis president Kara Daly offers up samples to mem-bers of the public.


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