June 2014

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas says the late Kishu Chandiramani “personified entrepreneurship, business insight, and corporate solidity in the Federation of St.…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – Belmont Resorts Limited has named its Chief Financial Officer. He is Clive Armbrister, who was born of Kittitian parents and took up residence in Nevis in the 1960s. An accountant by profession, Ambrister…

Basseterre: On Saturday Port Zante will come alive with music, dancing and a magnificent display of fireworks to celebrate Freewinds’ 25thAnniversary of sailing in the Caribbean. Since 1989 the Freewinds has visited the Federation hosting…

(ZIZ)-- Vaughn Parris of New Castle was formally arrested and charged for Throwing Missiles, which was committed on 7th June 2014. Latisha Joshua of New Castle was formally arrested and charged for Battery on Police, which was…

(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal, the man who stood on top of the tennis world after winning his ninth French Open title last weekend, was brought back to earth with a bump Thursday. The world No.1, so dominant on the clay at Roland Garros, was…

(CNN) -- Nervy, unconvincing and fortuitous -- but Brazil could scarcely care less. On a night where its players finally stepped into the high-pressure cauldron atmosphere of the World Cup on home soil, Brazil found a way to win. Gone are…

(Sports Page)— MS Dhoni, the India captain, is the only cricketer on the list of 100 highest-paid athletes in the world. He is also, obviously, the only Indian on the list. At 22, he has fallen six places from the list released in 2013,…

(Sports Page)— Joe Root accepted the opportunity to put a disrupting Ashes series behind him by marking the onset of England's Test summer with a third hundred once again replete with promise. It was a polished affair against a Sri Lanka…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - Jamaican opener Nkrumah Bonner unleashed a hostile century to catapult West Indies High performance Centre to a six wicket victory over Bangladesh A in the third and final One Day game of a three match series…

(Sports Page)—It was indeed a hard fought game and the few spectators on hand, were highly entertained. This as the local Basketball league action continued on Thursday night with the match up for third place honours between PJ’S and the…

(CNN) -- A priest was killed and another critically wounded in an attack at a Catholic church in Phoenix, police said early Thursday. The Rev. Kenneth Walker was fatally shot, and the Rev. Joseph Terra is hospitalized in critical…

FRESNO, California (AP) -- A burglary defendant who won his freedom because of a jury's mistake lost his life a few hours later when he was stabbed to death in a fight. The jury in the trial of Bobby Lee Pearson, 37, mistakenly signed a…

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Health officials are faced with what has been described as a major battle in the fight against Chikungunya owing to what they say is a reluctance of Dominicans to accept that the disease is transmitted by…

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- The Government is reporting that it has undertaken a number of preparatory activities, as it readies for the roll out of the J$1.4 billion Tablets in Schools pilot project for the new academic year. State…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Gaston Browne led his Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ALP) to a crushing victory in the general elections held on Thursday and has pledged to make the island an economic powerhouse in the Caribbean during his…