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February 3, 2014

NIA/ARK break ground for added animal care facility

NIA Charlestown Nevis-- Minister of Agriculture on Nevis Hon. Alexis Jeffers, thanked the Nevis Animal Humane Society-Friends of ARK for its partnership with the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) which will result in an expanded facility at…

Tenth CCLEC Training Begins

Basseterre, St. Kitts (Customs PRO) - Twenty-five junior officers of the St. Kitts and Nevis Customs Department and Montserrat Customs and Revenue Service will participate in the Tenth Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC)…

‘Bunny Rugs’ of Third World is dead

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- William ‘Bunny Rugs’ Clarke former lead singer of the popular band Third World has died in a Miami hospital. Clarke who would have turned 66 on Thursday, February 6, had been in intensive care for some time. He missed…

New Opposition leader for St Lucia

CASTRIES, St.Lucia - The appointment of Dr Gale Rigobert as the country’s new Leader of the Opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has now been confirmed. Dr. Rigobert was selected a week after Parliamentary Representative for Castries…

RBC Sheds Staff in Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN,Trinidad - Banking giant RBC Financial (Caribbean) Ltd is continuing to streamline its operations, this time sending home 20 employees from its Business Development Unit at a number of branches across the country. The layoffs…

$8-m rehabilitation of Freeport Road in MoBay underway

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica -- The Freeport main road in Montego Bay, St James, is currently being rehabilitated by the National Works Agency (NWA) at a cost of $8 million. State Minister for Transport, Works and Housing, Richard Azan,…

Two dead after gunman takes students hostage in Moscow school

Moscow (CNN) -- A Moscow high school student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and held about 20 other pupils hostage in a classroom Monday before he was disarmed and detained, Russian authorities said, just days before Russia hosts…

Officials: Michigan inmate escapes prison, abducts woman

(CNN) -- A man convicted of four murders from 1993 has escaped from a Michigan prison, and authorities think he abducted a woman, the Michigan Department of Corrections said. Corrections officials said they discovered Michael David Elliot…

Reports: Small plane crashes in South Africa, killing 3

(CNN) -- A small plane crashed in South Africa early Monday, killing 3 people, local media reported. The plane, a King Air 90, crashed at Lanseria airport, a privately owned facility situated just to the northwest of Johannesburg. Heavy…

Noella Freeman slam dunks previous record

Little Noella Freeman stormed past the finish line at a rapid pace with Tianna Griffin not far behind to beat the previous record for the Junior Girls’ cross country event at the Jocelyn Liburd Primary School. The event was held on Friday…

Final Four heats up as Bath and Stoney Grove draw match

The final four stage of the local Football competition hosted by the Nevis Football Association continues to heat up as the teams continue their intense struggle for a spot in the coveted finals. There was a very exciting game on Sunday…