November 2014

(ZIZ News)-- The Ministry of Health has continued taking steps to prepare health care workers to respond to an Ebola case and possibly an outbreak. A series of training sessions for JNF Hospital staff wrapped up on Thursday . It was the…

(ZIZ News)-- Activities for World Diabetes Week continued today with free screenings at Independence Square. Public Relations Officer for the St. Kitts Diabetes Association, Dr. Reginald O’loughlin said their goal is to get as much…

(ZIZ News)-- A fund raising activity that was scheduled for Financial Information Month 2014 will now be held on Saturday in Basseterre. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank's Sybil Welsh is encouraging the general public to support the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – The groundbreaking ceremony for the US$70 million Prime Hotel and Condominiums is scheduled for tomorrow morning (Saturday 15th November. The tourism project, approved under the Citizenship by Investment…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – Declaring that her calling to the Bar of the High Court in St. Kitts, represents the “beginning of a new chapter of my life,” Yvonne Bussue told High Court Judge, Her Ladyship Justice Marlene Carter, officers…

Naypyidaw, Myanmar (CNN) -- What a difference two years makes. When Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar in 2012, there was much fanfare about the country's political reforms and apparent road to democracy…

WASHINGTON, (CMC) – The Director of the Department of Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr Marcos Espinal, says preventing local transmission of Ebola is the main goal in preparing for…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Caribbean entrepreneurs who are looking for funding to develop new or existing businesses are being encouraged to look to their own nationals living abroad. “Diaspora financing should be explored as a source of…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- The body of a middle-aged practical nurse was found on a secluded road behind the Riu Hotel in Ironshore, Montego Bay Wednesday night. Preliminary reports are that the woman and a child were abducted by men travelling…

(Sports Page)— The Charlestown Secondary School has a comfortable lead in the inter High Schools Basketball and Netball series versus the Gingerland Secondary School. Despite the inclement weather, matches were played at the Grell…

(Sports Page)-- The much anticipated big bash clash which is part of the celebrations for the Postal services on Nevis, will take place on Saturday 15th November. The action will be at the ET Willet Park starting at 5 pm and will involve…

(Sports Page)-- Mr. KJ Singh, the senior Project Officer responsible for Schools’ Cricket in the Caribbean, held a development forum in Nevis on Thursday 6th November. Prior to the forum which was held at the Sports Department, located at…

St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board Selection Panel today announced the West Indies Test Squad for the tour of South Africa which includes three Test matches. The squad is as follows: Denesh Ramdin – Captain Sulieman Benn…

(Sports Page)-- Ellyse Perry starred with bat and ball as Australia Women registered a comfortable win against West Indies women to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match ODI series. Perry scored his fourth ODI fifty, then picked…

(Sports Page)-- Today is the day! A bumper crowd is expected at the ET Willet Park today Thursday 13th November. The grand finals of the 2014 edition of the Giant Malt sponsored Primary Schools Football league will conclude with clashes in…