June 8, 2015

Basseterre, St Kitts -- It is with deep regret that we have learnt in the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports & Culture of the passing of two (2) of our long standing calypsonians. Orville Underwood, better known in the calypso…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- The St. Kitts and Nevis National Arts Festival will become a regular feature of the National Independence celebrations, recommencing this year. This is according to new Director of Culture Troy Mills who…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- Following the reopening of the Electoral Office in St. Kitts on June 01, it is reported that all of officers are undergoing a training programme to actively carry out their duties. Attorney General Hon…

Sports Page -- The action continued in the NABA league on Sunday night with a much anticipated matchup between two of the top teams: CG Rebels and Bronx Crisis. The Bronx men came into the game with the welcomed addition of overseas based…

Sports Page -- Nevisian all-rounder, Adelvin Phillip, is holding his own in the English leagues. Phillip is turning out this year for PANNAL CC in the Thealston Nidderdale league in Yorkshire and has significantly helped his team to its…

Sports Page -- On Wednesday morning Australia began their defence of the Frank Worrell Trophy. By Friday evening they had retained it. Such is the nature of modern scheduling that a two-Test series was all Australia and West Indies could…

Cricinfo -- Chris Gayle took his run tally in three NatWest T20 Blast innings for Somerset to 328 as his side beat Hampshire by eight wickets in front of a sell-out 6,500 Taunton crowd. The hosts reached a modest target of 168 with nine…

Beijing (AP) -- The latest weapon in the fight against cheating on China's all-important college entrance exam is a six-propeller drone. The contraption flew over two testing centers in Luoyang city in central China's Henan province to…

Mexico City, Mexico (AFP) -- Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's party won congressional elections on Sunday, retaining its simple majority despite protests and falling approval ratings, according to preliminary results. The…

Johannesburg, South Africa (AFP) -- Oscar Pistorius, the South African double amputee sprinter who shot dead his girlfriend, is scheduled to be freed on parole on August 21 after serving ten months in jail, officials said Monday. "He has…

Panama City, Panama -- A judge in Panama has suspended the upcoming murder trial of the imprisoned former dictator, General Manuel Noriega. The general, who served 20 years in a federal prison in Miami, and subsequently two years, out of a…

Nassau, Bahamas (CMC) -- Bahamian officials say they have intercepted a small speed boat with three "irregular" Haitian migrants on Sunday, bringing to eight the number of illegal migrants apprehended over the weekend. The authorities said…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Reports have reached OBSERVER ONLINE that the Minister of Youth and Culture, Lisa Hanna was involved in a three-vehicle collision last night along Highway 2000. A police source told the Observer that Hanna was…

Castries, St Lucia -- Following the success of such coalitions in Guyana, St Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago, two senior members of the Lucian People’s Movement (LPM) have called for a similar national unity alliance in Saint Lucia.…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- The Trinidad Express has reported that a director of its ultimate parent company, One Caribbean Media Limited (OCM), is the owner of a Trinidad-based business that laundered money through black market currency…