October 2014

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- Trinidad and Tobago National Security Minister Gary Griffith has extended an invitation to Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson to visit Port of Spain for talks on immigration issues between the…

Kingston, Jamaica -- With reports of a shortage of Panadol -- the brand of tablet recommended for treatment of the symptoms of Chigungunya – the Health Ministry is assuring the public that there are several other brands of paracetamol…

Sports Page -- The grand finals for this year’s Leeward Islands senior Cricket Tournament will be held in Montserrat, starting tomorrow Thursday 16th October. The finals in both the three day and one day formats will be played at the…

Hambantota, Sri Lanka, CMC -- An impressive century stand for the eighth wicket between Shane Shillingford and Nikita Miller averted an innings defeat but offered little hope of a significant come-back as West Indies A suffered a…

Sports Page -- The Number 1 seeded Defending Champions Challengers Exodus and the Number 2 seed Cotton Ground Rebels held true to their regular season seedlings when they each dominated their Final Four Semifinals opponents on Saturday…

Sports Page -- The SKNABA in Collaboration with the SKNOC will be facilitating the conducting of two Technical Courses for Coaches in Basketball (Level 1 and Level 2) in the federation of St.Kitts-Nevis. Both Courses will be conducted by…

NIA Charlestown Nevis --Head of the Nevis Disaster Management Department (NDMD) Lester Blackett says that although Nevis did not suffer any major damage from the passage of Tropical Storm Gonzalo on October 13, 2014, the experience should…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- An 11-member group of travel agents, tour operators and a journalist from the United Kingdom is on a tour of the twin-island Federation. The group is jointly sponsored by the St. Kitts Tourism Authority and…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- The St. Kitts and Nevis National Education Foundation (SKNNEF) has been said to be “a vehicle through which the dreams of many students, teachers and budding professionals can be realised.” These were the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- Energy officials in Basseterre anticipate a reduction in the cost of electricity generation and greater savings for consumers and the government as the roll out of the Light Exchange and Distribution…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is projecting to have the strongest economic growth in the English-speaking Caribbean in 2014 and in the Eastern Caribbean in 2015. That’s according to Caribbean…

Miami, USA -- A hurricane watch was issued for Puerto Rico, Vieques and Culebra, and the British and US Virgin Islands as Tropical Storm Gonzalo moved through the Leeward Islands on Monday, with rain bands already affecting Guadeloupe,…

Pretoria, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius offered $34,000 to the family of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after he killed her, but they rejected it because they did not want "blood money," a prosecutor said Tuesday at the sentencing…

Kingston, Jamaica -- A woman was Tuesday morning stabbed to death during a dispute with her boyfriend at their Montego Bay St James home. The boyfriend was hospitalised after sustaining stab wounds as well. Reports reaching OBSERVER…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- Guyana has a mass preparedness campaign on-stream as the Ebola virus continues to cause worldwide uproar. This is according to Dr Johanna Cole, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) internal…