St. Kitts & Nevis represented at the 6th Annual Training Course for Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserve Managers

PRESS RELEASE   Basseterre, St. Kitts – October 11th, 2018. UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province organized the 6th Training Course for Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserve Managers from October 1 to 3, 2018 in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.  The overall aim of the training course was to …

St. Kitts & Nevis raises its profile amongst UNESCO Ambassadors

    Notwithstanding being a small island developing state, St. Kitts and Nevis has again raised the profile of the Federation on the multilateral stage, as one of the 184 Member States of the specialised UN agency, UNESCO, based in Paris. At the end of September this year, St. Kitts and Nevis’ Ambassador to UNESCO, H.E. …

EDUCATION SECTOR; FOCUS OF UNESCO’S FACT-FINDING MISSION

(EMU) – St. Kitts, June 28, 2018: In an effort to assess the needs of the country as it relates to professionalizing the teaching force, the Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNESCO, is presently conducting a series of discussions within the Federation. The Ministry recognizes that the education sector has experienced major improvements over …

Two high level officials from UNESCO are presently on SKN this week on a scooping mission in order to provide Technical Assistance in “Professionalizing the Teaching Services here in the Federation,” the officials are; Mr.Claude Akpabie , Programme Specialist for Education in the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean, and Mr. Edem Adubra, PhD, -Chief of the Section for Teacher Development & Head of the Secretariat of the International Task Force on Teachers, Division for Support and Coordination of Education 2030, UNESCO Education Sector

   

PRESS RELEASE – Cayon High School Environment Club Gets A Head Start For National Volunteers Day.

On Friday February 16th, 2018, the Environment Club students comprising of 3 rd and 4 th formers of the Cayon High School volunteered to plant fruit trees to participate in the National Volunteer Day Commemoration. A total of eight trees were planted at the school entrance and in the garden. The trees planted were Avocado, …

The Official Launching & Consultation of the St. Kitts & Nevis UNESCO Slave Route project. Lecture Series Part 1 The Late Sir Probyn Innis – Local Historian.

Lecture Series Part 1 The Late Sir Probyn Innis – Local Historian. The Official Launching & Consultation of the St. Kitts & Nevis UNESCO Slave Route project. Lecture Series Part 1 The Late Sir Probyn Innis – Local Historian. Posted by St. Kitts – Nevis National Commission for Unesco on Thursday, February 8, 2018