October 2013

Basseterre, St. Kitts, (CUOPM) – The 2013/2014 St. Kitts Cruise Ship Season picks up steam in November with the expected arrival of an estimated 81,000 passengers. According to the schedule from the St. Kitts Tourism Authority, some 81,314…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, (CUOPM) – PANCAP – the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV AIDS – is reporting a reduction in the number of new HIV infections annually in the Caribbean. This was among some of the gains in managing HIV/AIDS…

Basseterre, St. Kitts--The St. Christopher National Trust held its 4th Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 29th October, 2013 at its office at the Old Treasury Building, Basseterre. In his President’s Report, Mr. Tapley Seaton QC, reflected…

St. Kitts, (EMU) – Two male African Americans are the main facilitators in a series of workshops organized by the Ministry of Education to address issues related to educating boys in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. As part of the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, (SKNIS): Members of a team from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat visited the federation this week to discuss a set of Strategic Plans for the period 2014-2018. The set of consultations were geared…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, (CUOPM) - Range Developments, a leading Dubai-based hospitality developer has announced the appointment of Kier, a well-established global construction company based in the UK, for phase one of its Park Hyatt St.…

Kingston, Jamaica - Climate Change is no longer considered an emerging threat, but is now one of the greatest threats to the future of civilization, says Minister of State in the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Ian…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) – Investigations are continuing into the discovery of cocaine found Wednesday aboard a vessel in Port of Spain bound for St Vincent and the Grenadines. Customs and Excise officials reported that during a raid,…

(UTAH) -- A man wrote goodbye letters to his family as he lay dying in the wreckage of his van after crashing into a remote ravine in Utah. David Welch, 54, disappeared after leaving home in Manhattan, Kansas, on September 3. His body was…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) – Gunmen pretending to be police officers shot and killed a 32-year-old mother at her home in Sangre Grande on Tuesday night, police said. Police said that Keisha Sanchez died at hospital after she was shot…

(CNN) Investigators have shut down a newly-completed, "highly sophisticated" drug tunnel running under the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. It hasn't been utilized," ICE…

(CNN) A video that appears to show a Saudi man beating a migrant worker is causing growing outrage in Saudi Arabia. In the amateur video, which went viral after it was posted on YouTube, a male worker in an orange jumpsuit is first seen…

(CNN) Stranded in the unforgiving expanses of Niger's Sahara desert after their vehicles broke down, dozens of people, almost all of them women and children, slowly died of thirst. The migrants had been trying to reach Algeria, Azaoua…

Washington (CNN) -- The National Security Agency's director flatly denied a Washington Post report Wednesday that the NSA secretly broke into communications links to Google and Yahoo servers overseas. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, the NSA…

(Sports Page) Push the boundaries, shift the goalposts, change vocabularies. Three hundred and fifty no longer inspires awe. Not when Indian batsmen are batting on flat Indian pitches surrounded by quick outfields with only four fielders…