December 2014

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (HCNN) -- Haitian President Michel Martelly has appointed Florence Duperval Guillaume as prime minister to replace Laurent Lamothe, who resigned over a week ago, in a move to help solve a political crisis threatening…

Kingston, Jamaica -- All indications are that the lights at the National Stadium will be good enough to host matches in the CONCACAF Under-20 tournament, scheduled to start January 9, 2015. That is according to Jamaica Football Federation…

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- An executive member of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB), Patrick Rampersad, has blasted the appointment of 23-year old fast bowler Jason Holder as the new captain of the West Indies one-day side.…

London, England -- The reviews from the London premiere of the Antiguan homegrown movie The Skin are coming in and they are good. The movie made history recently as the first feature film from Antigua and Barbuda to be screened in the…

Washington (AFP) -- Before President Barack Obama announced last week that Washington and Havana would restore diplomatic ties, one US official had already been working on a special project — call it insemination diplomacy — to unite the…

Washington, United States (AFP) -- Former US President George HW Bush, 90, has been admitted to a Texas hospital suffering shortness of breath, a family spokesman said Tuesday. "President Bush was taken by ambulance to the Houston…

(ZIZ News) -- Following a one year sabbatical from the National Carnival line up, the Steel Pan Festival was this year revived with the 16 and 5 a side competition. On Tuesday evening five steel orchestras from the federation participated…

Basseterre, St. Kitts -- It was a message like no other for an effort that has no parallel. The awesome message came from the mouth of Bishop Matthew Hepburn of the Word of Life New Testament Church on Central Street, Basseterre, on Monday…

(ZIZ News) - A new junior calypso king has been crowned. The Mighty Sookie outperformed eight other calypsonians to win the title early Wednesday morning. The Mighty Sookie won the competition after performing to his song, "I Pray". In…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) for Tobago, Peter Reyes said on Sunday he did not know how to switch off his cellular phone, which caused him to run afoul of flight regulations on a flight from Trinidad to…

Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) -- Finance and Planning Minister, Dr Peter Phillips, has cited the need for a “new agenda” of support for Jamaica and other Caribbean states by key international stakeholders. This, he said, to effectively address…

Castries, St Lucia -- The former director general of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr Len Ishmael, says the Caribbean will never achieve the status of economic resilience as long as the international community insists…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- In a statement issued on Monday, Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart responded to last week’s long-term sovereign credit ratings downgrade by Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services to 'B' from 'BB-'.…

New Haven, USA -- Alstom SA, a French power and transportation company, pleaded guilty on Monday and agreed to pay a $772,290,000 fine to resolve charges related to a widespread scheme involving tens of millions of dollars in bribes in…

New York (AP) -- A New York City man imprisoned for nearly 20 years for murder before a judge declared he was innocent is getting $4.75 million from the state. Fernando Bermudez told the New York Post in a statement published Tuesday, that…