January 8, 2015

Basseterre, St. Kitts(CUOPM) -- Empowerment of all persons in the society quality of life of the small man have always been the hallmark of the 82-year-old St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party in and out of government, Prime Minister the Right Hon.…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- St. Kitts and Nevis continued its very firm and steady march towards becoming the world’s first sustainable island state with the start of construction of a second solar farm. “Our country takes another…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- The St. Kitts and Nevis Fire and Rescue Services (SKNFRS) is commemorating 15 years since its separation from the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force (RSCNPF) in January 2000. A week of activities…

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS -- A 30-seater Toyota Coaster bus is the newest addition to the aging fleet of school buses at the Department of Education on Nevis. Premier of Nevis and Minister of Education Hon. Vance Amory handed over the 2015…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- St Kitts continues to break new ground in its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint, reduce fossil fuel consumption and expand its usage of renewable energy, with the opening of the first half of a…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- When America’s well-known journalist and former CNN contributor Roland Martin, arrived in St. Kitts during the Christmas/Carnival season; he had no indication that he would attend the 14th Annual Prime…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- The first phase of an initiative to replace all of 5000 street lights in the federation with energy-saving LED bulbs began yesterday (January 07) in Basseterre. Minister of Energy and Public Utilities, Hon.…

New York -- A New York man was on Wednesday sentenced to 29 years in prison for murdering a Jamaican teenager who refused to abort his baby. Christian Ferdinand, 22, said to be Jamaican born, was found guilty of murdering 14-year-old…

Paris, France (AFP) -- France's iconic Eiffel Tower is to go dark late Thursday in a sombre tribute to the 12 people killed in the attack on the Paris satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The lights normally illuminating the 324-metre…

Paris (AP) -- An assailant opened fire on a police officer on the southern edge of Paris early Thursday, killing her and injuring a nearby street sweeper before fleeing, officials and a witness said. France's interior minister cautioned…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- One hundred and eighty-five packages (bricks) of cocaine, weighing 192 kilograms and worth approximately US$800 million, were discovered on Monday by authorities in Guyana on the MV Delta Dies, a foreign vessel…

St George's, Grenada -- The government of Grenada has concluded a comprehensive agreement to restructure its US$36.6 million (EC$98.8 million) indebtedness to the Export-Import (ExIm) Bank of Taiwan. This landmark agreement, which reduces…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- LICHEL FRANCOIS initially thought the gunshots she heard was the sound of a car rolling over a glass bottle. She was about to berate the driver of the car she was in for waking her one-year-old sleeping child but…

St Catherine, Jamaica -- A woman accused of stealing $21,000 from another inside a Western Union branch had her bail extended when she appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court Tuesday. Rhoda Smikle appeared in court on a…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- Jamaican wicket-keeper/batsman Chadwick Walton will captain Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC) in the 2015 WICB Nagico Super50 Championship in Trinidad & Tobago, January 15-26. There are seven Jamaicans in…