January 14, 2014

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – A Kittitian resident in Luton, England was among hundreds on United Kingdom citizens who were recipients in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. Mrs. Mabel Matthew, 74, will receive the gong for her services…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS): A special thanksgiving service was an appropriate way to mark the life and contribution of the nation’s newest centenarian Joseph Buchanan. The Pastor and members of the Emanuel Methodist Church joined with…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS): Young people of St. Kitts and Nevis are the beneficiaries of another way to channel their energies thanks to a donation of instruments from Colgate College, Hamilton, New York. Chuck Fox an affiliate of…

(CUOPM) – The Ministry of Home Affairs in Bermuda was set to holds a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss a Citizenship by Investment Programme. The Bermuda Government had announced during the Throne Speech last year that it would be…

(NIA)– Certified Urologist, Dr. Dwayne Thwaites urged men on Nevis to take advantage of the annual prostate cancer screening clinics being offered to them. The advice came at the 6th annual Prostate Cancer Screening drive on Saturday 11,…

Roseau, Dominica (CMC) -- Police were on Tuesday searching for the killers of two men, who were murdered on Monday, the first killings the island reported for the new year. Police public relations officer, Inspector John Carbon, said that…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The Lottery Scam Taskforce on Monday secured its first conviction in the Circuit Court after 21-year-old Marlon Davis of Grange Pen, Lilliput in St James, who was arrested for breaches of the Law Reform (Fraudulent…

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — For decades, the baying of hounds and a cacophony of shotgun blasts echoed across the hinterlands of northern Trinidad, where hunters chased deer, armadillo and agouti, a cat-sized rodent. But since October,…

St George’s, Grenada (CMC) – Grenadian authorities were clamping down on the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages at school functions amid reports that students were concealing them in bottles which carry other labels. In addition,…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government has extended by 18 days, the deadline for laying off public servants following talks with labour unions on Monday. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said the delay would allow the Ministry…

Juba, South Sudan (AP) — A military spokesman in South Sudan says 200 people fleeing warfare died after a boat crossing the Nile River sank. Colonel Philip Aguer said Tuesday that the boat was mostly carrying women and children. Tens of…

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of demonstrators on Tuesday continued anti-government protests in Bangkok intended to drive Thailand's Prime Minister out of office. The protesters have laid siege to major intersections in…

(CNN) -- It started with a father sending text messages to his daughter during the previews of a movie. It ended with the 43-year-old man shot dead amid the theater seats, and a 71-year-old retired police officer in custody. That man was…

(CNN) -- Between 200 and 300 women and children who were fleeing fighting in South Sudan drowned when an overloaded ferry overturned on a river, a South Sudanese army spokesman said Tuesday. The accident happened Saturday on the White Nile…

London (CNN) -- Russia has expelled an American journalist and author critical of President Vladimir Putin in one of the first such cases since the Cold War. David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and author of…