Government Extends Registration Deadline for Its Social Assistance Programme

The Team Unity cabinet has extended the deadline for the data gathering exercise for the government’s poverty alleviation program.

The deadline has been changed from Wednesday, August 15 to Friday, August 17.

Prime Minister Harris says this gives residents of st. Kitts an additional two days to register.

Prime Minister Harris also revealed that more than two thousand five hundred individual households in St. Kitts had already as of Friday, August 10.

He further noted that his government takes its responsibility seriously and as such has put the necessary control measures in place to ensure that there is no abuse of the programme.

This fact-checking and verification process forms part of the second phase of the Poverty Alleviation Programme.