September 2014

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- As St. Kitts and Nevis celebrates 31 years of political independence, the Federation’s Deputy Prime Minister the Hon. Dr. Earl Asim Martin has been highlighting homeownership by thousands of nationals as one…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- A Taiwan Youth Ambassador delegation has concluded a four-day visit aimed at promoting Taiwanese culture and conducting exchanges programmes with local students of Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) and…

NIA Charlestown Nevis -- Premier of Nevis Hon. Vance Amory urged one of the long-serving churches on Nevis to hold fast to its mission and faith, as it celebrated its 50th anniversary at a special service at Whitehall on September 14, 2014.…

(CNN) -- Hurricane Odile was downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane Monday morning, hours after making landfall at the southernmost tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, according to that country's National Meteorology Service. Odile is…

(CNN) -- A British man and woman were found dead on a beach on a popular resort island in Thailand, police said Monday. The two victims were found on the island of Koh Tao, and police are investigating their deaths as murder, authorities…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has pledged financial support towards the launch of Start Up Jamaica, as part of the regional private sector development programme (RPSDP) funded by the…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley responded to the Trinidad and Tobago government’s budget proposals in Parliament on Friday. In a two-hour statement, he criticised what he described as the increasing annual…

Castries, St Lucia -- Allen Chastanet, the embattled political leader of the opposition United Workers party (UWP) in Saint Lucia, may be facing a new challenge at the party’s convention next month. Local economist Dr Claudius Preville, a…

(CNN) -- The Davis Cup is the just about the only major honor in tennis to elude Roger Federer and the Swiss maestro took another big step to righting that omission Sunday as he led his country into November's final against France. Federer…

Sports Page -- Asst. Secretary-Treasurer of the Nevis Turf and Jockey Club, Delroy Liburd, apologized to the general public for the lack of the accustomed press conference to herald the commencement of his Association’s signature event for…

Gros Islet, St Lucia, CMC -- Speedster Kemar Roach rocked Bangladesh with a devastating five-wicket haul to leave their innings in ruins as West Indies kept their stranglehold on the second and final Test here Sunday. The right-armer…

Sports Page -- Deandra Dottin and Anisa Mohammed teamed up to be the key players in ensuring a second consecutive win for the Windies women’s Cricket team in their ongoing one day series versus the New Zealand women’s team. The match was…

Sports Page -- The West Indies women’s Cricket team, virtually strolled to a comfortable victory at Warner Park on Friday 12th September, versus the New Zealand women’s team. This in the first one dayer in their current series versus the…

Sports Page -- The members of the Nevis Cricket squad faced off over the weekend in two trial matches which will serve to select the final squad for this year’s Leeward Islands cricket tournament, which is set to bowl off on the 25th…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- St. Kitts and Nevis is on a development trajectory which has placed the twin-island Federation in the forefront of Caribbean Development. St. Kitts-born Professor Dr. Frank L. Mills delivering the feature…