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Posted: Wednesday 23 August, 2006 at 8:32 AM

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 23^RD 2006 - The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis' Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas is ensuring that all nationals at home and abroad participate in the exercise to reform the electoral framework.

Wednesday afternoon's official launch will be carried live on ZIZ Radio and Television (both AM and FM frequencies); Kyss FM; Sugar City Roc; Choice FM; VON Radio; WINNFM and Radio One.

Live Internet streaming will be available on the websites of ZIZ Broadcasting, CUOPM and the Electoral Secretariat Website @ newelectoralframework.gov.kn

An Electoral Reform Secretariat has been established and is housed in the old Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis building on Church Street.

The Secretariat will allow members of the public and the media to make contact with the respective Chairman of the National Advisory Electoral Reform and Boundaries Committee, and the Electoral Reform Consultative Committee.

~~Adz:Right~~A website has been set up to allow Kittitians and Nevisians at home and abroad and the media to have access to information on the electoral reform framework.

Several documents are accessible at www.newelectoralframework.gov.kn.

Other documents available at the site are the

The Secretariat has also released the Calendar of hearings to be conducted by the Electoral Reform Consultative Committee.

Consultations Calendar

Date	Session	Community / Group	Venue
9/4/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/4/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Town Hall-Basseterre	Basseterre Senior High Auditorium
9/4/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/5/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/5/2006	PM 1:00-4:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/5/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Town Hall-Charlestown including Jessups	Nevis Cultural Centre
9/6/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	St. Paul's and Newton Ground	St. Paul's Community Centre
9/6/2006	AM 10:00 - 12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/6/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge,Govt HQ
9/6/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Conaree	Conaree Community Centre
9/7/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Dieppe Bay and Parson's	Dieppe Bay Primary
9/7/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Challengers/Boyd's/West Farm	Bronte Welch Primary
9/7/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/7/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/8/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Separate Meetings with Groups/Organizations representing Nationals resident on Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, and St. Maarten	To be determined
9/9/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Separate Meeting with Groups/Organizations representing Nationals resident on Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, and St Maarten	To be determined
9/10/2006		Additional Meetings in Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, and St. Maarten	To be determined
9/11/2006	PM 3:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/11/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	St Peter's	St Peter's Community Centre
9/11/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Tabernacle	Tabernacle Primary School
9/12/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/12/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Old Road to include Verchilds, Lamberts and Middle Island	Old Road Community Centre
9/12/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/12/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Eden Brown, Butlers and Bricklin	Dave Morton's Church (downstairs)
9/13/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/13/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/13/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Brown Pasture, Church Ground, and Morning Star	St John's Primary
9/13/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Lodge to include Bourryeau, Lodge Project, and Ottley's	Violet Petty Primary
9/14/2006	AM10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/14/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/14/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	New Town to include Frigate Bay, Bird Rock, and Taylor's	New Town Community Centre
9/15/2006	AM 9:00-12:00 noon	Civic/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/15/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	St Croix, USVI	To be determined
9/16/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Consultations in the UK during the period 16 September through 26	To be determined
9/16/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	St Thomas, USVI	To be determined
9/17/2006		Possible additional meeting in St Thomas, USVI	To be determined
9/20/2006	PM 2:00-5:30	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/20/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Town Hall-Saddler's to include Harris	Saddler's Primary School
9/21/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/21/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/21/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Half Way Tree to include Godwin Ghaut, New Guinea and Conyers	Half Way Tree Community Centre
9/22/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/22/2006	Evening	Youth Related Activity	To be determined
9/25/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/25/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Molineux to include Phillips	Molinueux Primary School
9/25/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	New Castle	VOJN
9/25/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/26/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/26/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
9/26/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Mansion to include Christ Church	Estridge Primary School
9/26/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Hanley Road, Cook Grd, Rices, Sherrif, Matchman	Cecil Walters Community Centre
9/27/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/27/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Bath Village, parts of Stoney Ground	Albertha Payne Community Centre
9/27/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Brown Hill, Prospect	Ivor Walters Primary School
9/27/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/27/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Bath Village, parts of Stoney Ground	Albertha Payne Community Centre
9/28/2006	AM 10:00-12:00 noon	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
9/28/2006	PM 1:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
10/2/2006	AM 8:30-12:00 noon	Secondary Schools (5th form students on St Kitts)	BHS, WAHS, and Cayon
10/2/2006	AM 8:30-12:00 noon	Secondary Schools (5th form students on St Kitts)	Verchilds, Convent, and Sandy Point
10/2/2006	PM 1:00-4:00	Tertiary Institutions and others	CFB College and AVEC
10/2/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Sandy Point, Fig Tree and La Valley	Sandy Point High School
10/3/2006	AM 10:00-1:00 PM	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross, Nevis
10/3/2006	PM 2:00-5:30	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross, Nevis
10/3/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Gingerland (Main Street, Rawlins, Hardtimes, Zetlands, Pond Hill, Hull Ground,)	Gingerland Secondary School
10/4/2006	AM 10:00-1:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
10/4/2006	PM 2:00-5:30	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
10/4/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Cayon to include Keys and Canada	Cayon Community Centre
10/5/2006	AM 10:00-1:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
10/5/2006	PM 2:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
10/5/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Cox, Beaumont, Nevis	Mandela Centre
10/9/2006	PM 2:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
10/9/2006	AM 10:00-1:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Parliamentary Lounge, Govt HQ
10/10/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Zion, Webbes, Fothergill, New River	New River Methodist Church
10/10/2006	AM 9:00-12:00 noon	Secondary Schools on Nevis (5th forms)	Charlestown, Lyn Jeffers, and Gingerland
10/10/2006	PM 2:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
10/11/2006	AM 10:00-1:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
10/11/2006	PM 2:00-5:00	Civil/Political and Other Organizations/Groups	Red Cross Building, Nevis
10/11/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Church of God	Cotton Ground
10/12/2006	Evening 7:30-9:30	Basseterre	St. Johnston Community Centre
10/13/2006		Consultations with Nationals resident in North America (Toronto, NY, DC and Miami) from October 13 to 22	To be determined
10/23/2006		Preparation and finalization of Report from October 23 to November 16
11/17/2006		Submission of Report