May 17, 2014

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – Some 600 delegates, invited guests and supporters of the ruling St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party will gather on Sunday for the 82nd Annual Conference. The Conference takes place at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort…

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) — Prime Minister Kenny Anthony says many St Lucians were shocked by the decision of countryman Darren Sammy to announce his retirement from Test cricket. Sammy called it a day from the longer format of the sport…

NYON, Switzerland (AP) -- Big-spending clubs Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain were fined 60 million euros (US$82 million) by UEFA yesterday and ordered to limit their Champions League squads to 21 players next season for breaching…

(Sports Page)-- OLYMPIC champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and 2011 World Championships 100m champion Yohan Blake will headline a powerful 39-strong Jamaican squad to the inaugural IAAF World Relays set for the Bahamas, May 24 and 25, the…

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Armed men clashed with Ukrainian border guards Saturday after a separatist leader was detained at a checkpoint. He was trying to re-enter the country from Russia, the Ukrainian Border Service said. The incident is…

(CNN) -- As outrage grows over a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christianity, the government defended the verdict, but said it's only preliminary. A Khartoum court this week convicted Meriam Yehya Ibrahim,…

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has requested that senior citizens who are accessing their certificates of title for the first time, do so at a reduced rate. Simpson Miller has asked the Ministry of Water,…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb reiterated Friday that the confederation intended to bid for the 2026 World Cup. Just days after making the point in New York, Webb told local journalists in Barbados that…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- An American missionary who came to Haiti in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake has been stabbed to death in the capital of the impoverished Caribbean country, police and friends said Friday. George Knoop,…

--The students and teachers of the Epworth/Maurice Hillier Memorial Junior School took to the streets Friday morning for the final activity to mark their annual “No TV Week.” Backed by a hi-fi system, the school marched through the streets…

--Chairman of the Nevis Reformation Party and host of Choice Radio's "Tell Me", the Honourable Carlisle Powell has accused Nevis' Premier, the Honourable Vance Amory of spending more time off island than on Nevis. Speaking on Thursday…

--Health officials have been undergoing training this week in a faster method of testing for HIV. It’s called True Rapid Testing and the sessions were organized by the Ministry of Health and the US Centre for Disease Control and…