Officials from St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards were featured on the government’s radio and television programme “Working for You” on Wednesday, August 11, 2021. The special guests were Stuart Laplace, Director of St. Kitts & Nevis Bureau of Standards, and Jermine Mike, Head of Standards at St. Kitts & Nevis Bureau of Standards.…
The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards (SKNBS) would like to inform the general public that it will be working on a Packaged Water Regulation. This national regulation will establish standards for the purity, treatment, bacteriological acceptability, packaging, and labelling of all pre-packaged waters intended for use as beverages or in foods. The CARICOM…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 11, 2021 (SKNBS): The Bureau of Standards Bill, 2021, which was read for the first time in the National Assembly on August 05, 2021, is significant as it sets the foundation for a National Quality Infrastructure (NQI). An NQI is a national framework that guides the production of local goods and…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 04, 2021 (SKNBS): At a sitting of National Assembly, which will be held on August 05, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., the Minister of International Trade, Industry, Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Labour, the Honourable Wendy Phipps, will seek leave to introduce and have read a first time the Bureau of Standards Bill,…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 30, 2021 (SKNBS): The development of a National Quality Policy (NQP) in the twin-island federation of St. Kitts and Nevis will go a long way toward building capacity in a number of critical priority areas government has identified. This announcement came from Minister of International Trade, Industry, Commerce, Consumer Affairs and…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 30, 2021 (SKNBS): The development of a National Quality Policy (NQP) will have a lot to offer the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Sector in St. Kitts and Nevis, says Permanent Secretary, Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Labour Jasemin Weekes. The Permanent Secretary was at the…
May 20 is World Metrology Day, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875. This treaty provides the basis for a worldwide coherent measurement system that underpins scientific discovery and innovation, industrial manufacturing and international trade, as well as the improvement of the quality of life and the protection of the…
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