BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, August 22, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — Prime Minister and Minister of Health the Hon Dr Terrance Drew is congratulating local chefs who he described as doing miracles with local foods, and urging members of the public to adopt their recipes as they are healthy and will help in the country’s fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Dr Drew made the remarks on Sunday August 21 at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort’s Fire Kitchen in Frigate Bay where four local chefs representing Sandy Point, Cayon, Basseterre, and Nevis took part in the I Rep My Community Cooking Competition finals, endeavouring to take the title ‘In Ya Kitchen Community Top Chef.’
“I think this competition is more than a competition. It creates opportunities for people to see and taste that eating healthy can be fun, can be tasty and the most important benefit is that you can have a healthy life and keep the chronic non-communicable diseases away, such as high blood pressure, hypertension, cancers and so on.” The eventual winner was Mrs Saundia ‘Chef Sandy’ Mitcham-Glasgow of Cunningham Heights, Cayon. The competition was organised by the Health Promotion Unit in the Ministry of Health and sponsored by the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) through the Technical Mission of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to Saint Kitts and Nevis. The Capacity Building Project for the Prevention and Control of Metabolic Chronic Diseases Project has been working in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health. Prime Minister Drew reminded that NCDs are the number one cause of death in St. Kitts and Nevis: “I hope that our people can get a handle of these recipes which are basic recipes and they can easily be adopted to the home and adopted to the family meal.”