Daily Archives

September 29, 2014

17th Annual National Consultation on the Economy on Thursday

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- Public and private sector officials, representatives of several non-governmental organisations and students from the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) will meet on Thursday 2nd October for the 17th…

ICT Week: Information Technology Integral to Development

Basseterre, St. Kitts -- Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Christopher Herbert, believes that Information Communication Technology (ICT) is at the heart of the nation’s development…

Rawlins go One up in Best of Three Series

Sports Page -- The Rawlins Village team went one up in the tape ball cricket series versus the Easterns team which is a combination of players from Hickman’s and Zion villages. The venue for the first match was the Hickman’s Playing field…

Confident West Indies leave Caribbean

Port of Spain, Trinidad - A confident West Indies cricket team left the Caribbean on Saturday bound for India to compete against that country in series of five one day internationals, a Twenty20 and three Test matches. Denesh Ramdin, Lendl…

New Zealand edge Super Over to take series

Sports Page -- Suzie Bates and Sophie Devine held their nerve in a Super Over, as New Zealand Women successfully collected the six runs they needed to secure the win, and with it, the three-match T20I series against West Indies Women in St…

Hurricanes clinch semi-final spot

Sports Page -- Another disciplined effort from Hobart Hurricanes' bowlers put the side in the Champions League T20 semi-finals, with a six-wicket win over Barbados Tridents. Tridents' score of 113 was the lowest by a side batting first in a…

7 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk fighting

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed by tank fire Monday at the airport in the flashpoint city of Donetsk, the country's counterterrorist operations press office said. Nine other soldiers were injured in the clash,…

Dominica confuses and embarrasses CARICOM

New York, USA -- The insistence by the government of Dominica to sponsor the candidacy of a sitting member of the British parliament and former minister in the British government for the post of Commonwealth secretary-general when the…

Canada commits to supporting justice reforms in Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) -- Canadian High Commissioner Robert Ready has pledged the continued commitment of the Canadian government to Jamaica’s justice reform goals. He gave the commitment, while addressing the Justice Undertakings for…

Trinidad — Bullet kills boy

Trinidad -- UNFORTUNATE, senseless and reckless. These were some of the words used by friends and relatives after hearing of an incident in which a 17-year-old boy, Ricardo Mohammed, appeared to have been accidentally killed by a…

PNP national executive member on fraud charge returns to court

Kingston, Jamaica -- People’s National Party (PNP) member Donovan Bisasor and a co-accused arrested in August for fraud will again appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court today. The 58-year-old Bisasor and his 31-year-old…

Police Updates (September 29, 2014)

(ZIZ News) -- Trevor Hector of Market Street was formally arrested and charged for Larceny, which was committed on 24th September 2014. Michael Connor of John Street, Newtown was formally arrested and charged for Larceny, which was…

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