BASSETERRE St. Kitts June 24th 2011 – Recently small business owners have voiced their distress over the hard time that they are experiencing due to the current economic crisis.
Although some have recorded reasonable success, they spoke of the many challenges with which they are faced.
According to them, a strong indomitable spirit is not enough. The challenges, they said, are great and they are not operating on a level playing field.
Too small to succeed?
SKNVibes presents another edition of St. Kitts Business Updates.
THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (RBC), a financial institution, announced the commencement of the re-branding of the Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (RBTT) Financial Group with RBC Royal Bank as their retail banking brand.
In the coming months, RBTT operations across the Caribbean from Jamaica to the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados, to Curacao and Suriname, will all adopt the new RBC brand.
The existing RBC operations in the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Eastern Caribbean and Barbados will also move to the updated brand expression to create one RBC in the Caribbean.
This week, the financial institution reconfirmed its commitment to the RBC/RBTT Caribbean Children’s Cancer Fund by presenting Brian Lara, Chairman of the Cancer Treatment Foundation (CTF), the administrator of the Fund, with TT$1.2 million (US$187,500) to provide treatment for children 16 years of age and younger who are diagnosed with cancer.
Similarly, THE FIRSTCARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL BANK, another financial institution announced on Monday (June 20), that it is being co-branded under the banner of the Canada Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). The new name will be CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank.
The Bank will gradually transition into its new identity over the coming months as the CIBC FirstCaribbean brand is introduced to operations across the Caribbean region. Over this period of time the red and gold of the CIBC brand will be phased-in as branch signage, employee uniforms, and marketing materials are updated.
THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS is currently celebrating itsr 30th year of operating and as part of its celebration, it hosted a Street Bazaar/Market Day on June 23, in St. Kitts.
This event took place on Central Street Basseterre for the entire work day.
A section of Central Street was lined with tents which were occupied by the Bank’s business clients.
They displayed their products and services; selling to the public, distributing flyers, brochures and information booklets. They also gave product demonstrations.
The public was able to interact with them to gather additional information on what they had to offer.
As an addition to the festivities, a DJ provided musical entertainment.
The much anticipated grand opening of the iRepSKN store took place on Thursday June 23, at Porte Zante (next door to Scoops) at 5:00 p.m. Fans of the clothing line will now have the opportunity to shop in person for official SKN patriotic clothing and accessories that they adore.
On Monday (June 20) LIME handed over a Lenovo desktop with three months free internet service to the winner of their Easter Hunt Promotion.
LIME also announced that in addition to the Easter Hunt Promotion prize, there was a consolation prize of one year free internet for one of the persons who entered the Easter Hunt.
The telecommunications company sincerely apologises to all of its customers for the mobile outage that occurred two weeks ago. It has overcome the challenges that were being faced and is now offering 100 free LIME to LIME minutes and 100 free LIME to LIME texts to all of its prepaid customers. These free minutes and texts will expire in 30 days from 22nd June.
Post paid customers will enjoy 150 free LIME to LIME minutes and 150 free LIME to LIME texts. This offer will take effect during July and August. Postpaid customers will be able to use their free minutes and texts after they had exhausted the minutes and texts in their regular packages.
There is a new bar in town and the name is CHEERS. Officially opened on June 17, just in time for Music Festival, Cheers offers a wide array beers and drinks for the persons who prefer drinks on the hard side. The bar is located at Palms Arcade, The Circus, Basseterre and opening hours are from 10:00 a.m. until the last person leaves.
ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE conducted a ‘Job Fair’ in Independence Square, Basseterre, yesterday (June 23) from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Application forms and Information were available for vacancies that exist in Safety and Security, Information Technology, Communications, Facilities and other areas.
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