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CMYK Page:2 The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday October 18th, 2019 NEWS Nevis Turtle Onslaught Continues Turtle poachers make narrow escape Nesting Hawksbill turtle Turtle poachers make narrow escape By Monique Washington for patrols to help pro- turtle meat, eggs or the tect sea turtles. turtle itself is $5,000. The already suffering population of sea turtles “We need help. Help is Pemberton urged the in Nevis is still being needed to patrol Cades public to be vigilant of severely impacted by Bay beach to Cotton potential poachers. attacks, with the lat- Ground in particular,” est incident involving a he said. “Anyone seeing ve- turtle being tied up and hicles parked near nest- the presumed poachers Just days prior, a num- ing beaches are urged making a narrow escape from the police. Speaking with the “We need help. Help Observer, founder of the Nevis Turtle Group Lemmuel Pemberton is needed to patrol said that when volun- teers were monitoring turtles at the Mariner Cades Bay beach Pub on Thursday night they noticed that one nesting turtle was tied to Cotton Ground up and a vehicle was in close proximity to it. in particular.” “The volunteers patrol- ling that area found a ber of nesting turtles to take the number and turtle tied up. A vehicle were attacked and killed contact the nearest po- was seen. Police were by dogs. Pemberton lice station or the Nevis called to the scene and noted that nesting tur- turtle group hotline they just missed the tles normally lay eggs 665-1814.” presumed perpetrators,” only about three times said Pemberton. a year. Currently, there are three species of sea He also noted that on Pemberton said that the turtles that nest on the Wednesday evening a last turtle that was killed island. The loggerhead, nesting turtle was sto- had some of the eggs on hawksbill and the Green len on Cotton Ground her. Pemberton urged turtle. The Nevis Turtle beach close to Nelson pet owners to try to re- Group is group has Spring. The drag marks frain from walking dogs tagged over 300 turtles were seen on the beach at night on the beach and currently there are the following day. unleashed. just about 100 turtles nesting on the island. He said that to date Pemberton warned that the presumed poachers a nesting turtle should have not been found. never be interfered with. Pemberton appealed to The penalty for being the public to volunteer found in possession of NEWS The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday October 18th, 2019 Page:3 ECCB aims for 50% less physical cash by 2025 Less cash not cashless, as digital currency moves closer By Loshaun Dixon tell you it will be 3 or 5 will fall off. be used through an app payment instrument innovation.’ percent.” on cellphones which for our currency union. The Eastern Caribbean “Where there is less would allow users to This is the 21st century, He noted that the ECCU Central Bank (ECCB) Antoine said that they physical cash we will connect with financialwe are 36 years into our is growing at a rate of is looking to reduce the are hoping to signifi- have more digital cash. institutions. A payment journey as a Central 3.5% per anum, short of use of physical cash cantly reduce reliance It’s all cash just how by a vendor can be Bank, our currency is the 5% target set by the by 50 percent by 2025 on significant cash. you transact it” scanned with the app one of the strongest ECCB. with the use of a Digital and then the money is in the world, but what Eastern Caribbean “At about 2025 we want A pilot programme transferred. could be and should be “We have to grow econ- Dollar (DXCD), which to see a reduction of for DXCD that was for this currency must omies and grow them they say will trans- cash by about 50 per- launched seven months Antoine said the ECCB occupy our minds as faster. We have to be form the economy of cent. This is not cash- ago will be conducted is hoping to go live with we contemplate our looking for ways to el- the Eastern Caribbean less but is less cash. We across two phases. The the app in the first three future.” evate and expedite the Currency Union understand that there first phase will be a -de months of 2020. trajectory of growth in (ECCU). has to be multiple pay- velopment and testing our region.” Governor of the ECCB Timothy Antoine, speaking at bank’s DXCD Summit last “At about 2025 we week, said that cashless transactions per capita in the region lag behind want to see a the rest of the world “We know that 80 to 90 reduction of cash by percent of all transac- tions in this region are paper-based cash or about 50 percent. cheques.” He said that in tourism- This is not cashless dependent economies there can be inefficien- cies that could result in but is less cash.” a lack of sales. “The customer is not walking with loads of ment channels.” phase for 12 months : Governor of ECCB Timothy Antoine at the ECCB DXCD Summit EC cash and maybe not followed by the imple- loads of US cash, they He noted they are mentation phase for six “Hopefully we can set- He added that pay- To achieve this the may not want to do that, also hoping to reduce months. tle on the partners, settle ments are the lifeblood ECCB head said part it is not safe. They [local cheques by 80 percent on the experience and of any economy and the this challenge will be businesses] are operat- in the same time period. “We have actually com- actually test before we DXCD is a key step in to broaden financial ing in analogue while pleted seven months of go live and the public the build-out of a digital inclusion. the buyer is in digital.” “Paper and cheques this work and a lot of it buys into what we are economy for the cur- are expensive,” said has been on minting and trying to do.” rency union. “You cannot be an ac- He added that payments Antoine. development of proto- tive participant in the in the region are too ex- cols. We are now about Antoine said the ECCB economy, fully benefit pensive with many con- He anticipates that to enter an important was investing a sub- if you are not included sumers paying to make credit and debit cards phase that is about user stantial amount of time, “This is about transfor- payments on goods and will pickup in use by interface and testing money and energy into mation and if I were to services. 2025 as they are more and public education,” the project because go a step further it is efficient. said Antoine. they believe in its about sharing prosper- “That is what happens significance. ity for citizens and resi- now when you walk Antoine said that the “We have to do a lot of dents of our currency into the store and you DXCD will pick up public education.” “What we offer you union. We cannot trans- want to swipe by elec- where the physical cash is a secure accessible form this region without tronic means and they He said DXCD would innovative real-time Page:4 The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday October 18th, 2019 NEWS EDITORIAL Friends remember Cynthia Pinney Charlestown Knock Knock! loses popular Let us assume for a moment, that President Trump is right: that the people gathering at its southern border who are attempting to enter the USA are all Mexicans, all terrorists, sales lady all murderers, all rapists - all bad hombres. Then the question to be asked would be what is it about America that is so attractive to this type of people, that they are pre- pared to risk life and limb to get to the USA? By Monique Washington History may hold a possible answer: that of the ‘mexicans’ claiming ancestral lands, i.e. that they are going home. Historically, Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Main Street Charlestown will not Colorado and Utah were all a part of the Mexican Empire. Collectively, these 6 states be the same after popular sales lady represent 855,282 sq miles or a little more than a quarter of the USA as we know it now; Cynthia Pinney of Happy Hill Drive, and when Mexico lost the Mexican American war of 1846 – 1848, it lost more than half Charlestown passed away early this of its territory. So maybe the Mexicans are simply going home. week. The last picture Pinney took on Saturday, Oct 12, with the caption At the same time, it must be reminded that these lands, having been won during the The news of Pinney’s untimely pass- “GOOD SATURDAY MORNING ing spread through the island on TO Y’all ....AM BLESS “ war, are American territory, and have been for many generations. They form part of a Sunday. She was found unresponsive foreign country. So what can possess a person, to turn up at the border, however that on the floor of her bathroom that border is described, and demand entry and permanent residence to a foreign place? morning. The cause of her death as of topics. Like how the country is doing, What right does he have to do so? It’s akin to someone – a perfect stranger, with family press time is still unknown. current events and things like that.