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Central America and the Caribbean > Saint Kitts and Nevis > Government

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KITTITIAN-NEVISIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Basseterre
political parties > Two party
Political parties and leaders
Concerned Citizens Movement or CCM [Vance AMORY]; Nevis Reformation Party or NRP [Joseph PARRY]; People's Action Movement or PAM [Lindsay GRANT]; Saint Kitts and Nevis Labor Party or SKNLP [Dr. Denzil DOUGLAS]
Prime minister Denzil Douglas
Procedures to build a warehouse > number 14 ... [125th of 168]
Procedures to enforce a contract > number 49 ... [25th of 170]
Procedures to register property > number 6 ... [87th of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 13 % ... [75th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 8 ... [114th of 171]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 72 days ... [163rd of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 578 days ... [63rd of 171]
Time required to register property > days 81 days ... [53rd of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 47 days ... [52nd of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 368 hours ... [45th of 169]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UNCLOS, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea
UN membership date 23 Sep. 1983
United Nations mission
http://www.stkittsnevis.org/
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Wesley Heights

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Wikipedia: List of political parties ; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Prime minister ; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, saint christopher and nevis, st kitts and nevis, st. kitts and nevis, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Kitts & Nevis, Saint Kitts & Nevis

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