The Nationwide Meeting of St. Kitts and Nevis convened on Thursday, February 27, 2025, for the primary studying of three Payments. The laws is a part of the PM Terrance Drew-led authorities’s good governance agenda because it commits itself to transparency, accountability and the rule of regulation.
The Order Paper and the Discover for the meeting’s sitting on the Nationwide Meeting Chambers, Authorities Headquarters, Basseterre, have been issued.
PM Drew, Lawyer-Normal Wilkin to introduce Payments
Prime Minister Drew, who additionally holds accountability for finance, nationwide safety, well being and different portfolios, will search go away to introduce and provides two Payments — Japanese Caribbean Securities Regulatory Fee Settlement Invoice, 2025, and the Prisons (Modification) Invoice, 2025 — their first studying.
Moreover the PM, Garth Wilkin, St. Kitts and Nevis’s attorney-general and the justice and authorized affairs minister, will introduce and provides the Integrity in Public Life (Modification) Invoice, 2025, a primary studying.
Copies of the legislative paperwork might be made accessible on the web site of St. Kitts and Nevis Info Service (www.sknis.gov.kn) beneath the Payments part. They may also be accessed through the Fb web page of the knowledge service.
Proceedings of the meeting, which is able to start at 10 am, might be seen stay on ZIZ Radio (96 FM) and taking part radio stations. It may also be considered stay on TV Channel 5 in St. Kitts and Channel 98 in Nevis. The live-streaming will even be accessible at www.zizonline.com.
PM Drew authorities’s sequence of Payments
The Labour authorities led by PM Drew has undertaken a sequence of legislations, aiming to enhance varied points of the nation’s political and social life since coming to workplace in 2022. In early 2023, it handed three key Payments to facilitate its Good Governance Agenda — the Anti-Corruption Invoice, 2023; the Integrity in Public Life (Modification) Invoice, 2023 and the Freedom of Info (Modification) Invoice, 2023.
In 2024, the federal government cleared the ASPIRE Invoice 2024 paving the way in which for the total execution of the ground-breaking and transformative initiative titled ‘Reaching Success via Private Funding, Assets and Training.
In January 2025, it handed the Autos and Highway Site visitors (Modification) Invoice, 2025, to handle reckless driving and put a cease to highway accidents.
