December 2013

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – Minister of Health, Community and Social Development and Gender Affairs, the Hon. Marcella Liburd says all Commonwealth citizens have the right to register to vote provided they meet the requirements outlined…

Basseterre: The St. Kitts Tourism Authority in collaboration with the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) distributed gifts to students of the Cotton-Thomas Comprehensive School and the Children’s Home. “This is a greatly…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS): “Drama: A Lifelong Learning Tool” was the theme of this year’s drama week; a theme which students of government primary schools focused on to create poetic masterpieces for the week’s Zonal Poetry Competition.…

NIA Charlestown Nevis -- The Nevis Island Assembly plans to hold a special sitting on December 10, 2013 and according to the Assembly’s President the Honourable Farrell Smithen, the event will mark the 30th anniversary of the law making…

NIA Charlestown Nevis-- Energy and Environment Minister in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) and Hon. Alexis Jeffers said he would not deny the people of Nevis a resource that rightfully belonged to them. He was at the time responding…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Police in the Corporate Area and St Catherine seized two firearms and several rounds of ammunition in three separate incidents over the weekend into Monday morning. On Saturday, December 7 several rounds of ammunition…

Castries, St. Lucia (CMC) – Police said a 12-year-old secondary school student, whose body was found on the floor of his room last week, died from cardiac arrest. They said an autopsy had been carried out on the body of Kenichi Henry, a…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- A teenager succumbed to his injures only hours after his father set fire to the family house in Gasparillo, a town south of here. Seventeen-year-old Jelani Joseph died on Saturday following a fire set by…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller left the island Saturday to attend the memorial service of the late Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, to be held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on December 10th.…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Cocaine weighing 362 kilograms with an estimated street value of J$494 million was seized at the Kingston Container Terminal at Port Bustamante Saturday morning. No one was arrested in connection with the seizure, the…

New York (CMC) – Caribbean/American Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke has called on President Barack Obama to stop the deportation of Caribbean and other immigrants who lack legal status in the United States. Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican…

California (AP) -- An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games has sold for a record US$1.4 million in an online auction. SCP Auctions said Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle paid US$1,466,574, the highest price…

(BBC)--North Korea has broadcast images of the once powerful uncle of leader Kim Jong-un being removed from a meeting, confirming reports of his dismissal. The dramatic images show Chang Song-thaek being escorted from a party session by…

(BBC)--Nelson Mandela's daughter Makaziwe has told the BBC about the "wonderful" final hours of the former president, who died aged 95 last Thursday. Ms Mandela said his wife Graca, the children and grandchildren were all there to say…

(ZIZ) -- Vernon Elliott alias "Pest" of St. Johnston Village, claims that he was wounded by an unknown assailant on Baker's Corner but claims that he did not see who wounded him. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) is currently…