August 2014

TORONTO, Canada (CMC) -- Four of the biggest names from the West Indies cricket team have signed a deal making them co-owners in the new Canadian Premier League T20 set for next year. The four are one-day captain Dwayne Bravo, Test captain…

Basseterre, St. Kitts -- The People Employment Programme (PEP) is being hailed, by one of its facilitators, as a vehicle that is training and professionalising the Federation’s workforce. The programme according to facilitator Mr Gerard…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS): With the 2014-2015 school-year fast approaching, teachers are being equipped with the proper tools to stimulate young minds through annual summer workshops. The August 26 to 28 workshops are held every year…

(ZIZ)-- Education and training are two priority areas for the government of St. Kitts-Nevis and the country's Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Dr. Denzil Douglas has said that his team is constantly exploring ways of facilitating both.…

(ZIZ)-- A large quantity of marijuana plants have been removed from the streets of St. Kitts. While conducting a routine security operation in the Phillips’ Mountain area, members of the St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force stumbled onto a…

(ZIZ)-- Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis the Right Honourable Dr. Denzil Douglas and his cabinet continue to find ways of diversifying the economy to further stimulate growth. Speaking recently, the Federation's Prime Minister…

(CNN) -- Surprise, mobility and the merciless treatment of opponents: the blueprint of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq as it has gobbled up territory in both Syria and Iraq over the past few months. But as its adversaries regroup, ISIS…

DALLAS (AP) — Hackers attacked Sony's PlayStation Network and apparently disrupted the travel plans of a top company executive by going on Twitter to suggest that there was a bomb on his American Airlines plane. American cut short the Sony…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The Caribbean Community Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (CARICOM IMPACS) is hosting a three-day regional training of trainers workshop on the International Small Arms Control Standards (ISACS) and…

ST ANN, Jamaica -- Roads in the resort town of Ocho Rios were flooded following heavy rains on Monday afternoon. Several other areas of the north coast parish also received heavy rainfall. The Meteorological Service of Jamaica forecast…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) - Ten Officers, including one from the St .Kitts and Nevis Defence Force (SKNDF), have graduated from the Guyana Defence Force Senior Command and Staff Course (SCSC) Number 13. Having successfully completed the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – A senior official of Hyatt hotel has expressed delight with the advanced pace of construction of the Park Hyatt St. Kitts on the island’s South East Peninsula. “We are very excited to be bringing the Park…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – After over 42 years of touring, Kittitian singer Joan Armatrading, has never undertaken a solo world tour. Martin Hutchinson, writing in the Derbyshire Times, writes: And on this, her last major tour, the…

NIA Charlestown Nevis -- In a second report on his visit to Hong Kong where he held meetings with hundreds of potential investors, Deputy Premier of Nevis Hon. Mark Brantley, described the media attention garnered from the meetings as…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – St. Kitts and Nevis got the victory over Antigua and Barbuda they had hoped for at Hasely Crawford Stadium, on Sunday, by a 2-1 scoreline in the CFU Women’s Caribbean Cup 2014, but it was only consolatory as…