December 4, 2015

(BBC) The female suspect in the California gun attack pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group on Facebook, US media reported. Tashfeen Malik made the post under an account with a different name US officials are…

(BBC) China has announced $60bn (£40bn) of assistance and loans for Africa to help with the development of the continent. President Xi Jinping said the package would include zero-interest loans as well as scholarships and training for…

(BBC) Australia has passed new laws to strip dual nationals convicted or suspected of terror offences of citizenship. The bill, approved by both sides of the upper house late on Thursday, is one of several measures introduced to fight…

(Trinidad Express) Port of Spain, Trinidad - In a first of its kind ruling, national Kareem Ibrahim has been declared a terrorist by the Trinidad and Tobago High Court. Ibrahim was convicted in the United States and sentenced to life in…

(Antigua Observer) Kingstown, St. Vincent – The main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) says it will win at least 11 seats in the December 9 general election. “The last poll that we had done by the New Democratic Party showed our…

(Caribbean360) Havana, Cuba – Denia Arrascaeta suffers water shortages on a near daily basis in the neighbourhood in the Cuban capital where she lives. “Sometimes I don’t even have water to drink,” she told IPS. At her grandmother’s house,…

The attackers who killed 14 people and wounded 21 at a social services centre in California had an arsenal of weaponry in their home, police said. Bomb equipment, weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found by police in a raid…

Danes have rejected adopting EU rules on cross-border policing in a referendum that could have seen the country take closer ties with the bloc, according to final results. Denmark's centre-right government had wanted to abandon some Danish…

Two FIFA vice-presidents have been arrested in a dawn raid at a Swiss hotel on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars of bribes. CONCACAF president Alfredo Hawit and Conmebol president Juan Angel Napout were taken from the Baur au Lac…

A telephone hotline number has been set up to allow people to share information they may have on Trinidad and Tobago nationals who may be heading to join the international terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The…

During his “90 Minutes” show on the government owned Radio Saint Lucia last Friday, local broadcaster Shelton Daniel revealed what he described as a million US dollar drop off of funds at a hotel in the north of Saint Lucia by a suspected…

(ZIZ News) -- The Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union is currently in deliberations to appoint a new Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. Former Governor, Sir K Dwight Venner retired on November 30. Media…

(ZIZ News) -- The local government is implementing measures to boost food security by improving food production and preservation. The St. Kitts and Nevis Information Service is reporting that on Tuesday, the government signed an agreement…