St Kitts minister urges statisticians to demystify field to youth

Nigel Carty

The St Kitts and Nevis Education Minister has challenged practitioners in the field of statistics to demystify it to young people in the Caribbean and to find creative ways to expose them to the subject.

Nigel Carty, Minister of Education of St Kitts and Nevis, delivered this charge on Monday morning in his remarks at the opening ceremony of the Thirty-Eighth Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) and the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Regional Census Coordinating Committee (RCCC). The meetings are being held in St. Kitts and Nevis; the SCCS is being held October 28-30 while the RCCC will be convened on October 31, a press release from the Caricom Secretariat said.

Carty told delegates to the meeting that ways had to be found to increase the public’s awareness of the importance of