THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

MESSAGE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION IN MEMORY OF
THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST

27 January 2012

One and a half million Jewish children perished in the Holocaust – victims
of persecution by the Nazis and their supporters.

Tens of thousands of other children were also murdered. They included people with disabilities… as well as Roma and Sinti. All were victims of a hate-filled ideology that labelled them “inferior”. Read more

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, (CUOPM)

Brimstone Hill Fortress

The battle will be re-enacted twice daily on March 30 and 31, 2012 as part of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee celebrations, by the U.S.-based re-enactors at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm each day for a total of four times, according to the St. Kitts Tourism Authority. Read more

Basseterre, St. Kitts (January 25, 2012)

The St. Kitts Electricity Company Ltd (SKELEC) has announced that it will need to conduct urgent maintenance work to a transformer located at CONTECT at the Canada Industrial Estate. A statement issued on Wednesday explained that consequently, there would be an outage to the Estate on Thursday between 8:00am and 4:00pm. Read more

Kingston, Jamaica:

Health and Wellness will be the focus as the University of the West Indies hosts its 2012 Research Days activities on Thursday, January 26 and Friday, January 27 on the Mona Campus. Now in its 13th year, the annual forum provides an opportunity for dialogue between researchers and students, potential investors/research collaborators, business leader policy makers locally, regionally and internationally. Read more

PRESS RELEASE

Basseterre, St. Kitts (January 24, 2012) –

The St. Kitts Electricity Company Limited (SKELEC) has announced that it will commence inspection of switchgears around the island on Wednesday, January 25th. Consequently, a number of electricity supply outages have been scheduled as follows: Read more