St Kitts And Nevis Travel Guide - Communications

Country code: 1 869.

Unregistered roaming is available – visitors with TDMA handsets can make calls without registering, provided they can give a credit card number.

Public access is available at many hotels and the Internet kiosk at the Cable & Wireless offices in Basseterre, St Kitts.

Airmail to Western Europe takes five to seven days.

Post office hours: Mon-Wed, Fri and Sat 0800-1500, Thurs 0800-1100.

The government operates national television and radio networks. There are several private radio stations. The main political parties publish weekly or fortnightly newspapers.

• Newspapers published in English include: The Democrat, The St Kitts and Nevis Observer (weekly) and The Labour Spokesman (twice weekly).

• ZIZ Television is a government-owned TV channel.

• ZIZ and ZBC Radio are the government-owned stations.
• Winn FM, Voice of Nevis (VON) and Big Wave are commercial stations.