November 12, 2015

Minister Kuo-Yen Wei Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan) November 2015 During the 1970s, British scholar James Lovelock put forward the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that the Earth is a…

(BBC) Protests against racial injustice have spread beyond the University of Missouri as students at least two other US campuses have walked out of classes. Rallies were held on Wednesday at Ithaca College in New York and Smith College in…

(BBC) At least 37 people have been killed and 181 injured in two explosions in the Lebanese capital Beirut, officials say. The blasts hit the southern suburb of Burj el-Barajneh, a stronghold of the Shia Hezbollah movement. The blasts…

(BBC) Apple has apologised to six schoolboys asked to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students described as a racist incident. Footage of the incident at Melbourne's Highpoint shopping centre emerged on Tuesday sparking…

(Antigua Observer) Antigua and Barbuda’s Shamere Yearwood is the region’s top CAPE student in Information Technology. The second year Antigua State College student not only recorded the best score in Unit 2 IT, but also the sixth highest…

(Jamaica Observer) Kingston, Jamaica - Newly appointed Health Minister Horace Dally says that he will be meeting with the mothers of the 19 babies who died from health care-associated infections at the University Hospital of the West Indies…

(Bahamas Local) Nassau, Bahamas - A teacher at Queen's College was shot dead at the intersection of Parkgate Road and Village Road around 8 o'clock last night. This was the first of two murders police reported. The other happened nearby off…

(ZIZ News) – Jaheida Lewis is set to use her platform as a contestant in the upcoming National Carnival Queen Pageant to be an advocate for the development of women’s football. Lewis is an avid footballer who has represented St. Kitts and…

(ZIZ News) – The West Indies Cricket Team picked up a win in the second and final Twenty20 International, to end what had become a disheartening tour of Sri Lanka, on a positive note. West Indies, winning the toss and batting, reached 162…

(ZIZ News) – Stakeholders in the Tourism Industry met on Wednesday to discuss the goals and objectives necessary in charting the way forward for Tourism in the Federation. The annual Stakeholders’ Meeting saw Minister of Tourism, Hon.…

(ZIZ News) – Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. Eugene Hamilton used his appearance on Wednesday’s edition of "Working for You" on ZIZ Radio, to stress the importance of the agricultural sector to St. Kitts and Nevis. He said however, that…

(ZIZ News) – Banking officials and service providers are meeting in St. Kitts, this week, to discuss issues that would affect how they do business in the future. The two-day Caribbean Association of Banks Conference began with an official…

(ZIZ News) – On Wednesday, St. Kitts and Nevis made history when it became the first country in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to launch the Criminal Justice Strategic Board . That Board was launched during a ceremony at the…