October 2013

(CAB) The resilience of the regional banking sector to volatility in global financial markets and its contribution to stability, growth and development in the region, will come under scrutiny here next month. The adaptability of the…

(SKNIS) Two hundred residents in St. Kitts and Nevis will soon have access to top-of-the-line software that will allow businesses and consumers to track, manage, secure and recover mobile computers. On Friday (October 18) Mike Perez,…

(CUOPM) A prominent member of the opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM), a part of the Unity construct, has joined the call to dismiss hundreds, if not thousands of civil servants, auxiliary and PEP workers, should a Unity Government…

Kingston, Jamaica – A policeman attached to the Traffic Department was stabbed last night while on duty in the Half Way Tree area of St Andrew. The policeman was stabbed three times in his back and once on his right hand. A person has been…

(BBC) Porn publisher Larry Flynt has said he does not want the man who put him in a wheelchair to face the death penalty. Joseph Paul Franklin, who shot Flynt outside a Georgia court in 1978, is set for execution in Missouri in November.…

(BBC) At least 40 people were arrested after a protest at a shale gas development in the Canadian province of New Brunswick turned violent, say police. A shot was fired, petrol bombs were tossed and police cars torched at the blockade near…

(BBC) Masked gunmen have shot dead a Libyan military police commander in the city of Benghazi, officials have said. Ahmed al-Barghathi, the head of the military police's investigative division, was shot several times as he left his house…

St. George’s, Grenada (CMC) – The Grenada government says the international community is willing to restructure the debt owed to it but insists that the island would have to make sacrifices. “We expect significant reduction in our debt…

(BBC) Two charred bodies pulled from Kenya's Westgate shopping centre on Thursday are "highly likely" to be two of the attackers, an MP has told the BBC. Ndung'u Gethenji, chairman of the committee investigating the attack, said AK47…

(Sports Page) A talented Nevis youth team got the better of a visiting school boys team out of England on Thursday 18th October. There was one scheduled match originally but because it was completed well ahead of the scheduled time,…

(Sports Page) President of the Nevis Football Association, Mr. George BRIGO Meade on Thursday revealed that his Association has postponed matches previously scheduled for Saturday 19th October at the ET Willet Park. He indicated that the…

(CUOPM) “St. Kitts’ going solar,” screams the headline in Boston.com. Paul E. Kandarian, a frequent contributor to Globe Travel and who writes and photographs New England and Caribbean stories in the article states: “If you fly into St.…

(SKNIS) ‘A double celebration’ were some of the words used to describe a recent gathering to signify the Republic of China (ROC) (Taiwan’s) investment in the education of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. In a ceremony held on…

(CUOPM) – The presence of former Minister of National Security, Mr. Dwyer Astaphan at a meeting with the Opposition and Guyanese residents in St. Kitts smacks of hypocrisy. So says St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr.…

(CUOPM) Ministers of Finance from the Caribbean, Ireland and Canada have urged the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to continue to support small highly vulnerable economies in its new strategy. “Of particular concern…