The governing Labour Party in St Kitts and Nevis expects a redrawing of boundaries work to continue despite the resignation of two of the five members of the country's Constituency Boundaries Commission earlier this week.

	Prime Minister Douglas and his advisers have had to defend boundary changes in court

Constitutional expert and adviser to the government in Basseterre Anthony Astaphan says the boundary changes work should not be derailed by the resignation of the two opposition MPs of the Concerned Citizens Movement who left the Commission on Monday.

Mr Astaphan says under the St Kitts and Nevis constitution the remaining members of the commission can continue the redrawing process.

That's despite opposition claims that they are close to the government.

Opposition Leader Mark Brantley told BBC Caribbean on Wednesday that while the last boundaries change exercise took eight months, the commission was now trying to rush the matter in just weeks before the parliament dissolves automatically in mid-December.

IMF investment warning

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says part of the economic woes in the Caribbean is as a result of the bursting of what it calls a bubble in the amount of foreign direct investment that was flowing into the region.

Many Caribbean governments have said they're hoping to attract foreign investment to help ease them out of the current financial crisis.

But the director of Eastern Caribbean Countries Division at the IMF, Alfred Schipke said regional governments should not expect to see a return of the dramatically high levels of foreign investment flows which occurred over the last eight years.

Dominica election date coming

Already in the grips of unofficial election campaigning, Dominica was poised on Thursday evening to step up the political rhetoric a notch or two.

	Mr Skerrit expected to announce the election date

The capital Roseau has been abuzz with speculation that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit would announce an election date Thursday evening.

The government said earlier that the prime minister would deliver an address to the nation from 9:30PM local time, at a public meeting expected to be carried live by state-owned DBS and the privately owned Kairi FM.

The two main opposition parties - the United Workers Party (UWP) and the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP) told BBC Caribbean they were more than ready to do election battle.

The UWP said it would field 18 candidates in the 21 constituency seat race, while the DFP indicated it would be contesting more than half of the seats.

Obama responds to Cuban blogger

President Barack Obama, faced with pressing domestic and international matters, has taken time to respond to a series of questions from a renowned Cuban blogger about the future of Cuba-US relations.

Blogger Yoani Sánchez emailed her questions to both Mr Obama and President Raul Castro asking mainly about how future US relations could develop.

President Obama's replied and his answers are published in her latest generational wide blog.

On the question of whether he's prepared to hold direct talks with Raul Castro, the American President wrote that he was not interested in talking for the sake of talking.

US and Cuban officials are discussing specific issues such as migration and restoring direct postal services.

The American president wrote that normalising relations will require action; in other words reforms by the Cuban authorities.