June 2015

Basseterre, St. Kitts -- After serving the public from a rented and outgrown location in Basseterre’s Central District for a decade and a half, the Solid Waste Management Corporation SWMC (St. Kitts) is preparing to move into its own…

(ZIZ News) -- Members of the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots team are off to St. Lucia, in anticipation of the first match against the St. Lucia Zouks on Wednesday. On Monday, our cameras were at the Yu Lounge, which is owned by team sponsor,…

(ZIZ News) -- Prime Minister, Hon. Dr. Timothy Harris has commended the sponsors of the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots team. Prime Minister Harris and Attorney General Hon. Vincent Byron mingled with the players on Monday at the Yu Lounge as…

(ZIZ News) -- Several former students of the Cayon High School reunited, this week, and participated in their former school’s General Assembly on Monday morning. Prime Minister, the Hon. Dr. Timothy Harris, a former Cayon High student,…

(ZIZ News) -- His Excellency Sam Condor has reported to duty in his first assignment since being appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Representative to the United Nations. The Royal St. Kitts Hotel was the venue…

NIA Charlestown Nevis -- The Ministry of Health on Nevis is urging the public to take advantage of its annual Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) day. It will be held through the HIV/AIDS Coordinating Unit at the ministry’s parking lot…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (SKNIS) -- Eleven year-old Malyka Howell of the Immaculate Conception Catholic School won this year’s T-shirt Design Challenge with her depiction of the theme for the 2nd annual Youth Empowerment summer camp “A Safe…

(ZIZ News) -- The Old Road Police Station is investigating a report in which a Green and Black Skye Marshall Yamati motor scooter PA3238 was stolen from Trinity Apartment between 5:00 pm on Sunday 21st June 2015 and 7:30 pm on Monday 22nd…

(ZIZ News) -- The Ministry of Social Development will be reviewing its Social Assistance Programmes to stay in line with the increased cost of living. That’s the word from Director of Social Development, Azilla Clarke. “The rate of…

Everett, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania man has been jailed on charges he robbed a small town bank while armed with a machete. Thirty-nine-year-old Charles Risenburg, of Six Mile Run, faces a July 1 preliminary hearing on…

Mumbai, India (AFP) -- The death toll from India's latest case of mass bootleg liquor poisoning rose to 100 Monday as authorities in Mumbai pledged to crack down on the illicit trade. Dhananjay Kulkarni, deputy police commissioner in the…

Johannesburg, South Africa (AFP) -- The South African government secretly plotted to ensure safe passage out of the country for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir despite an international warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges, a…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- Mexico is supporting a new initiative promoting vitro cloning of tropical plants in 13 Caribbean countries. The project, which is being carried out with support from the Inter-American Institute for…

Kingston, Jamaica (AP) -- US officials may have to wait a little longer for the extradition of a Jamaican financier convicted of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked $220 million from investors across central Florida and the Caribbean. David…

Kingstown, St Vincent -- The Electoral Office in St Vincent and the Grenadines has advised that the list of names to be removed from the voters list would not be published on Friday June 19, as earlier announced. According to supervisor of…