SKNVibes.com Number One in Caribbean

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – SKNVIBES.COM is undoubtedly the number one online media house in the Caribbean, and this fact is evidenced in a research that found some two and a half million visitors to the site on a monthly basis.

“Management of SKNVibes has recently conducted a research in which the findings revealed that over two and a half million unique visitors log on to our website on a monthly basis. This finding has definitely made us the number one online media house in the Caribbean. Not only has SKNVibes become a household name and home-page of nationals and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis, but also for many people in the Caribbean and further afield,” said the company’s Chief Executive Officer Greg Gilbert.

Chief Financial Officer Stachio Williams confirmed the large amount of visitors to the website and reiterated that SKNVibes is the number one in the Caribbean region.

“SKNVibes has been for some time the number one website in the region, and this comes from the fact that we have regular visitors from all parts of the Caribbean and also Caribbean nationals who are living abroad, as well as other nationals further afield,” Williams declared.

Explaining what the website offers, Williams said visitors could expect up-to-date information on events, issues [social and political], incidents and commentaries from around St. Kitts and Nevis as well as from a number of islands in the Caribbean.

“SKNVibes has an online community…in that we have created a forum where locals can meet and share views and ideas by reading each other’s comments,” he added.

Additionally, SKNVibes provides a variety of services. One of them is the e-Commerce, whereby individuals can shop online at a number of local business places. Visitors to the website can also go through the Classified Advertisements, buy a vehicle and purchase or rent a property. The e-Commerce activity also includes adding credit to their mobile cellular phones, via Top Up, in all countries in the Caribbean region where LIME is established.

With the ever-increasing changes in technology trends, people the world over have to be more mobile, especially in the business community. From this backdrop, SKNVibes has recently introduced another service called m-Commerce.
m-Commerce offers a range of services that can be accessed via mobile phones. These services include Text Top Up, which allows users to top up their phones and those of others by using their cellular phones without having to go online. It also provides Bill Payment Services, which allow users to pay bills and get statement and account balances via their mobile phones.

SKNVibes’ mobile services also include access to information on demand via its 7568 SMS Service. This particular service allows mobile phone users to access information on Events, Movies and Ferry Schedules, Fast Food and Pizza outlets, Gasoline and Caribbean Lotto, among others.

To access this service, mobile users can text the words:
• Movies
• Ferry
• Pizza
• Gas
• Lotto
• Events
to the short code 7568 and instantly receive information on their request.

SKNVibes has also expanded its services to online visitors, and according to Williams, earlier in the year, the media house had ventured into two other areas. “One being an online radio station known as People Entertaining People (PEP Radio) and the other is PEP TV, where we highlight video footage of entertainment events in St. Kitts and Nevis and also events in some of our neighbouring islands.”

“We covered the recently concluded World Championships in Germany and we also went to Anguilla to cover the Leeward Islands Calypso Show, which was won by the Federation’s Calypso Monarch Konris Maynard. PEP TV had also provided coverage of the Miami Carnival in which a number of our bands participated.”

Williams explained that the idea behind PEP TV is to air entertainment events and activities that occur in and around St. Kitts and Nevis and also those [events/activities] connected to the Federation further afield.

“The radio station operates like any other radio station, except that there is now on-air FM frequency that is strictly online radio station access to all at SKNVibes.com,” Williams said.

He further explained that SKNVibes’ expansion project has recently added another programme called Watch Dem Coming. “This programme,” he said, “is one where we take to the streets in downtown Basseterre and interview people in order to get their views, opinions and feedback on current topics of entertainment issues.”

SKNVibes, established on March 1, 2002, was born out of an idea when a group of six ambitious and enterprising youths decided to pool their resources and establish a service that would not only provide them jobs, but also create an avenue for information sharing among nationals and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Today, as confirmed by the research and echoed by CEO Gilbert and CFO Williams, SKNVibes has grown to become the number one online media house in the Caribbean region, and plans are on the front burner to introduce another service that will be of tremendous benefit to nationals and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis as well as to others throughout the Caribbean region.