June 2015

Pembroke Pines, Florida (AP) -- Investigators say a 28-year-old South Florida woman spent five days in a hospital passing drug pellets filled with almost 1.5 pounds of cocaine. Regis Walker of Pembroke Pines was returning to the United…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Scared by the supposedly demonic potential of the internet viral “Charlie Charlie” pencil and paper game, Jamaica’s ministry of education took the unusual step to ban the supposedly evil game from within the precincts…

Kingstown, St Vincent -- The process of cleaning up the voters list in St Vincent and the Grenadines is soon to begin, which will see the number of registered voters significantly reduced. In the 2010 general election there were 101,067…

Bridgetown, Barbados (BGIS) -- Barbados minister of finance, Christopher Sinckler, believes the time has come for the Caribbean to re-examine how it does business. Sinckler expressed this view on Monday, while delivering an address at the…

St John’s, Antigua -- A multi-million-dollar all-inclusive resort will open in Antigua in another two years, bringing with it 2,000 new jobs, government has disclosed. The agreement for the development of the 500-room resort under the…

Sports Page -- Coach of the Nevis under 15 team, Gerard TRINI Charles, on Wednesday 3rd June, expressed his delight at the sterling efforts of his youthful team in their recent engagements versus their Kittitian counterparts. ‘If only I…

Sports Page -- Thirteen wickets made for an eventful opening day of the series in Dominica, and it was Australia who went to stumps in the slightly stronger position. Denesh Ramdin gave his men the chance to bat first but they survived only…

St. John’s, Antigua -- A dispute between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over an abandoned series could be resolved before the end of June, WICB CEO Michael Muirhead has indicated.…

Sports Page -- Saturday 6th June 2:00pm - Molineaux/Cayon vs. Haynes Smith Umpires: Luther Kelly & Lester Shoy Sunday 7th June 10:00am - Len Harris Cricket Academy vs. Young Guns Umpires: Troy Mills & Steadroy Techeira Match 2…

NIA Charlestown Nevis -- Counsellor attached to the Gender Affairs Division of the Department of Social Services Wayne Maynard, says he is pleased with the public’s response to a new initiative to honour mothers in Nevis but believes that…

Basseterre, St. Kitts -- Back in 1988, the Organisation of American States (OAS) initiated a programme to train persons in ‘life skills’ as it had become evident that training in technical skills alone was not sufficient to produce trainees…

(ZIZ News) -- The Federation has lost two music icons: Kittitian, Aba Lively and Nevisian, David “Watusi” Wade. Described as a veteran calypsonian, Aba Lively participated, for many years, in the country’s annual Carnival festivities while…

(ZIZ News) -- 10 females and five males have been selected as senior pageant contestants for this year’s Culturama festival. This week, Executive Director of the Culturama Secretariat, Antonio Liburd told ZIZ News that the 15 senior…

(ZIZ News) -- A non-profit organisation that provides artificial limbs to amputees has gotten a helping hand from telecommunications firm, Digicel. During a brief presentation ceremony on Wednesday morning, Digicel donated $1000 to the…

(ZIZ News) -- The police are investigating the circumstances that led up to a truck running off the road near Old Road Bay. The incident occurred on Tuesday at around 3:40 pm. ZIZ’s cameras caught footage of the truck shortly after the…