January 2014

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Usain Bolt and Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce were awarded the RJR Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year titles Friday night at the 53rd staging of the event held at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston. Bolt: World record…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Owners of several funeral homes downtown Kingston are fearing the worst after their colleague Jennifer Hardy Edwards went missing on Monday. Parlour owners gathered outside a funeral home Friday awaiting the outcome of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, eight years after a stroke left him in a…

(ZIZ)-- Labour Party candidate for Constituency #3, Konris Maynard has already started to make a difference in his area. In a short ceremony held on Friday at the Verchilds High School, Renisha Wilkinson who attended the Bronte Welsh…

(ZIZ)-- Students from Colgate University in New York have teamed up with the Basseterre High School to help spruce up the school. Principal at Basseterre High, Carlene Henry- Morton said a project of this nature was well needed at the…

(ZIZ)-- This weekend marks the official end of Sugar Mas 42 and the carnival committee is already planning for Sugar Mas 43. In an interview with ZIZ News, Chairman of the Carnival Committee Sylvester Anthony said that Sugar Mas 42 was…

(ZIZ)-- The police are crediting the community with the fifteen percent drop in crime in 2013, compared to 2012. Police Commissioner Celvin Walwyn said their community policing programme has built up a stronger relationship with…

Basseterre, St. Kitts, January 10, 2014 (SKNIS): The National Archives of St. Kitts has commenced 2014 by providing interesting samples of the history of St. Kitts and Nevis through its Gems of the Archives initiative. Archivist Mrs.…

Nia Charlestown Nevis -- Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) attached to the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis, Nevis Division Robert Liburd called on members of the Nevis community to do all they could to assist Police in their continued…

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – The cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, said Friday it would hold talks with the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) after it had been slapped with a notice of penalty in connection with an…

ST ANDREW, Jamaica — The police a short while ago issued an advisory urging members of the public to use alternative routes of Old Hope Road or Gordon Boulevard in Kingston 6 as a section of Mona Road is now impassable. Earlier today a gas…

ST THOMAS, Jamaica — An elderly woman died after fire of unknown origin destroyed her house on Dominique Drive, Retreat in St Thomas Thursday morning. She has been identified as 76-year-old Nydia Johnson, otherwise known as ‘Millicent’.…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC)- - Former West Indies Cricket captain Brian Lara is to compete for a place on Trinidad and Tobago’s national team for the upcoming Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship (CAGC) in Puerto Rico. Lara is down to…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban news media say former President Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time since April last year. The Communist Party newspaper Granma reports that the 87-year-old Castro appeared Wednesday night at the…

(CNN) -- A lightning strike killed three people on a beach in Argentina Thursday and injured 22 others, state media reported. "We were hiding in a tent to take shelter from the storm when we felt an explosion, and then I saw my friend…