October 2014

Sports Page -- On a bright sunshiny day in St.Maarten on Sunday 12th October, the St.Maarten team engaged St. Kitts in a LICA one day fixture. St. Maarten won the toss and elected to send the visitors in to bat. St. Kitts amassed an…

Sports Page -- The finalists for this year’s LICA tournament in both the three day and one day formats have been decided. In the three day finals, it will be Antigua and Barbuda versus Anguilla as both teams won their respective zones. In…

Sports Page -- Chasing 264, West Indies were coasting. Dwayne Smith had gone past his highest ODI score, and his second-wicket partnership with Kieron Pollard was assuming threatening proportions. With nine wickets in hand, a long list of…

Sports Page -- The third ODI between India and West Indies on October 14 in Visakhapatnam has already been abandoned because of a cyclone on the country's east coast. The game will not be rescheduled and the series is now a four-match…

Hambantota, Sri Lanka, CMC --A batting meltdown overshadowed off-spinner Shane Shillingford’s five-wicket haul and cost West Indies A dearly, as they were left them facing an uphill battle to save the first unofficial “Test” against Sri…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has completed a significant upgrade to general postal services island-wide, with the opening of the Dieppe Bay Post Office on Thursday (October 09). Officials boasted…

(ZIZ News) -- The Violent Crime Unit is investigating a shooting incident which occurred at Willett's Village, St. Paul Village about 3:15 AMthis morning (Sunday 12 October 2014), where a local St. Paul's Village resident was shot in the…

TROPICAL STORM GONZALO ADVISORY AS OF 11 PM GONZALO EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN WHILE IT MOVES THROUGH THE LEEWARD ISLANDS TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY... SUMMARY OF 1100 PM AST...0300 UTC...INFORMATION...…

Washington, USA -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined global partners, including the head of the World Bank, at a high-level conference in Washington, DC, to combat water borne diseases like cholera in Haiti and, raise…

Madrid (CNN) -- A nurse's assistant in Spain -- the first person to contract Ebola outside Africa -- has taken a turn for the worse. Dr. Yolanda Fuentes, who works at Madrid's Carlos III hospital, said Thursday that Teresa Romero Ramos'…

London (AFP) -- The American actress Angelina Jolie was made an honorary dame for her work combatting sexual violence by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at London's Buckingham Palace on Friday. The star of such Hollywood films as "Tomb…

Niigata, Japan -- Assistant Reggae Boyz coach Miquel Coley has been hospitalised here. It was not clear the extent of his illness, but individuals close to the team told the Jamaica Observer that the Jamaica College (JC) coach had…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- The National Carnival Commission (NCC) is contemplating postponing Carnival celebrations in 2015 due to fears associated with the Ebola virus that has claimed the lives of thousands of people mainly in West…

Georgetown, Guyana -- The oil and gas rich Republic of Azerbaijan's ambassador to Guyana, Elnur Sultanov, on Wednesday presented his credentials to President Donald Ramotar in Georgetown. Sultanov became Azerbaijan's first ambassador to…

Port Au Prince, Haiti (CMC) -- Former Haiti president Jean Bertrand Aristide is due to appear in court Friday after the judge investigating alleged corruption charges against him issued an extraction order for his appearance. The order of…