More than a year after the IMF completed a report on its assessment of the St. Kitts and Nevis economy for 2018, and the government still has not given consent for the agency to publish that report. The report was completed in September 2018 following the...
Dwyer Astaphan, a former government minister, says come next general election Nevis Premier Mark Brantley could not only play the role of ‘King Maker’, but himself become the ‘King’, as in Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis. Astaphan, while a guest of Freedom FM’s Issues...
Just days after the Trinidad-based Republic Bank took over the operations of the Bank of Nova Scotia in St. Kitts and several other countries in the region, another Canadian bank has reportedly sold its Caribbean operations, including its branches in St. Kitts and Nevis. FirstCaribbean is...
The government has announced its approval for the usual duty concessions on food, gift packages and passenger allowances for the month of December. It also announced via press release Thursday that instead of the one Vat Reduction Day it gave for the past 4 years,...
Say good bye to the Bank of Nova Scotia St. Kitts and Nevis and welcome the Trinidad and Tobago-based Republic Bank. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) in September approved the sale of Scotia bank’s assets in the ECCU territories to Republic Financial Holding Limited (RFHL) Effective...