January 2014

Nia Charlestown Nevis -- Junior Minister responsible for Public Utilities on Nevis Hon. Troy Liburd reassured the public that work was ongoing, though slowly, on the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)-funded Water Enhancement Project. During…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, (CUOPM) -- The parade of cruise ships to St. Kitts’ Port Zante continued this week with two ships on Thursday30th and two on Wednesday. The 1,875-passenger Horizon arrived from Martinique with 1,183 passengers and a…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – St. Kitts as a tourism destination for cruise ship passengers is “fantastic.” So says Captain, Frank Juliussen, Master of the 4,100-pasenger capacity Norwegian Epic, which docked Wednesday with a total of…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Tanker drivers are back on the job after a two-day strike which left several service stations without fuel up to late Wednesday night. Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA) president Derrick Thompson told…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Last week, singer K Vibes got a career boost when her song ‘Reggae Music I Am’ went number one on New York City's Foundation Network Chart. Produced by Lloyd 'King Jammys' James, the song salutes some of Jamaican…

St John’s, Antigua -- Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Sir K Dwight Venner said the prolonged period of economic stagnation currently being experienced in the region has never before been seen in the currency union.…

St John’s, Antigua -- The Court of Appeal has reduced the life sentence of convicted murderer Yourrick Furlonge, to 20 years in prison. The court ordered that the sentence must be counted from 2007, since Furlonge was remanded into custody…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- A 12-year-old boy is among four people who will reappear in court on February 26 charged with the murder of a mechanic, who was bludgeoned to death at his home in Diego Martin, west of here, earlier this…

The following is a statement by the Director of Elections Orette Fisher in response to a recent controversy regarding the secrecy of votes. Said Fisher: Recently, there has been discussion in the public sphere as to whether political…

Green Island, Hanover -- For more than 10 years, Green Island, a rapidly developing town that sits mid-way between Lucea and the resort town of Negril, has been without a functioning fire hydrant. Its absence has caused many sleepless…

Montego Bay, St James -- Lambert Johnson, the attorney who represented the two Irwin brothers who were last July acquitted of rape and a slew of other charges arising from the rape of five females at Irwin Point in 2012, has written to the…

(CNN) -- The former partner of French President Francois Hollande said she felt like she "was falling from a skyscraper" when she learned about his alleged affair with an actress, Paris Match magazine said Thursday. Trierweiler gave an…

(CNN) -- Iraqi police have won back full control of a ministry building stormed by gunmen who took civil servants hostage, security sources said Thursday. Six gunmen were killed in the police operation to retake part of the Human Rights…

(CNN) -- Russian police have identified two alleged suicide bombers believed to be responsible for the deadly Volgograd bombings and detained another two suspected accomplices, anti-terrorism officials said Thursday, according to Russian…

(BBC) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has insisted that he and his government have "fulfilled all the obligations" to solve the crisis in the country. But the political opposition continued to "whip up" the situation, he added.…