St Kitts gov’t engages US after report suggests country in line for possible travel restrictions

The gov­ern­ment has reached out to Unit­ed States of­fi­cials for clar­i­fi­ca­tion fol­low­ing re­ports that the twin-is­land fed­er­a­tion has been in­clud­ed in a list of na­tions fac­ing po­ten­tial trav­el re­stric­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Ter­rance Drew con­firmed in a state­ment that his ad­min­is­tra­tion, along with the coun­try’s Em­bassy in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., has en­gaged with US au­thor­i­ties af­ter a New York Times re­port in­di­cat­ed that St. Kitts and Nevis would be placed in a “yel­low” cat­e­go­ry of na­tions that would have 60 days to ad­dress per­ceived de­fi­cien­cies or risk trav­el re­stric­tions.

“The gov­ern­ment is not aware of any such con­cerns raised by US coun­ter­parts,” the state­ment said, adding that the gov­ern­ment has al­so not re­ceived any com­mu­ni­ca­tion on this mat­ter, ei­ther for­mal or in­for­mal, from US au­thor­i­ties.