May 2014

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…

Charlestown Nevis -- Seven year-old Jae-ele Swanston of the Ivor Walters Primary School and 16-year-old Kelsia Liburd of the Gingerland Secondary School were selected as finalists in the Junior and Senior categories respectively, in the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS): As part of his on-going series of listening meetings with employees of various industries, Prime Minister The Honourable Dr. Denzil Douglas met with staff of industrial engineering companies Jaro and Kajola…

Basseterre, St. Kitts-- Prime Minister the Right Hon Dr. Denzil Douglas met with hospitality staff at The St. Kitts Marriott Resort and Royal St. Kitts Hotel yesterday (May 15) assuring them that their interests are always being considered…

ZIZ News -- The Mentoring Advising Guiding and Instructing Children Programme that recently graduated more than 300 students here on St. Kitts has caught the attention of the Caribbean Community . Commissioner of Police, Celvin Walwyn…

ZIZ News -- ZIZ's recent interview with Police Commissioner Celvin Walwyn has caught the attention of the Nevis Island Administration which has since issued a statement responding to Commissioner Walwyn. The controversy surrounds the…