2014

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) - Sprint superstar Usain Bolt revealed Friday that he will put back his planned retirement until 2017 at the request of his sponsors. The six-time Olympic gold medallist and 100m and 200m world record holder…

LONDON, England (AFP) - With the new Premier League season kicking off on Saturday, here are fact files on the five leading contenders to win the English title. MANCHESTER CITY Manager: Manuel Pellegrini (CHI) 2013-14 position: 1st; FA…

TILBURY, UK (AFP) -- A man was found dead and 34 others still alive in a shipping container on Saturday after staff at a British port heard banging and screaming coming from inside. The men, women and children, all believed to be from the…

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The suspected case of Chikungunya at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona is among two additional locally transmitted cases confirmed by the Ministry of Health a short while ago. This brings the total number of…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) - MULTI-MILLION selling Rick Ross, will be centre of attention this evening (Friday), the night before Guyana's Amazon Warriors play the Barbados Tridents in the final of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL)…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – Huge crowds at St. Kitts’ Warner Park witnessed Thursday Guyana’s Amazon Warriors storming into a second consecutive CPL final with a thumping ten-wicket win over defending champions Jamaica Tallawahs.…

(ZIZ)-- Students at three primary schools in Constituency #6 now have a head start on the new school year after receiving school bags and supplies courtesy of Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas. On Thursday morning, Prime…

(ZIZ)-- The Charlestown based Bank of Nevis has been the centre of media attention on the sister island as it is alleged that at least one senior member of staff has been terminated over a financial scandal. Former Premier and Finance…

(ZIZ) -- As the second edition of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League comes to a close this weekend, the Federation’s Minister of Sports is pleased with the opportunities it has created in the field of tourism. Speaking to ZIZ Radio…

(ZIZ)-- The Ministry of Health continues to improve the services at health institutions on St. Kitts, particularly the Joseph N. France General Hospital. Miinister of Health, the Hon. Marcella Liburd, during a radio interview on Wednesday…

(ZIZ)-- Even in the midst of the excitement of the CPL Games, public discussion on finding a solution to the boundaries issue is still at the forefront. Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, has taken the lead in the…

(CNN)-- It may have seemed like a good idea at the time but Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad's bizarre celebration in the home straight of the men's 3,000m steeeplechase at the European championships was to cost him dear. Approaching the final…

Georgetown, Guyana - Guyana’s opening batsman Tagenarine Chanderpaul was crowned Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the three-day version of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Under-19 competition on Wednesday evening when the…

(CNN) -- The magnitude of the Ebola crisis in West Africa is "vastly" underestimated, the World Health Organization warned this week, as the death toll steadily climbed. Ebola has infected at least 1,975 people in Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia…

PARIS, France - (AFP) - A candidate vaccine against the joint disease chikungunya, endemic to Africa and south Asia but moving north- and westward, showed promise by provoking an immune response in human trials, its developers said Friday.…