February 2016

Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89. The book remains a towering presence in American literature, telling the tale of a white lawyer defending a black man accused of rape in the Deep South. Read more…

Petrus Private Bank has opened its doors in St. Lucia, becoming the 15th licensed international bank operating from the Eastern Caribbean island. It officially began doing business on Tuesday. Read more:…

Desnoes and Geddes Limited has announced that it will resume production of Red Stripe from Jamaica for export to the North American market in September, just over three years after production shifted to the United States. The move is…

(ZIZ News) -- Prime Minister Dr. The Hon Timothy Harris says during their first year in office his government has made progress in almost every area of endeavour. He made the comments in Friday’s sitting of National Assembly. The prime…

(ZIZ News) -- Prime Minister Dr. Hon. Timothy Harris is thanking the people of the federation for confidence in the government of National Unity since its inception. Speaking at a town hall meeting in observance of the government’s first…

(SKNIS): Minister of State, Honourable Senator Wendy Phipps, who has responsibility for Health, has confirmed that presently there are no suspected cases or lab confirmed cases of the Zika virus in St. Kitts and Nevis. She said this during…

(ZIZ News) -- The government is taking measures to ensure that the monkey population in the Federation does not continue to be a menace to farmers and crops. That’s according to Minister Of Agriculture Hon. Eugene Hamilton who outlined the…

(ZIZ News) -- During the launch of the Information and Communication Technologies Governance Board, government officials and the members of the new ICT Governance Board addressed and explained the process of this new policy. ZIZ…

(ZIZ News) -- On Thursday morning, the Government of St. Kitts-Nevis officially launched the Information and Communication Technologies Governance Board, and the official website of St. Kitts and Nevis. The launch was held under the…

The acting information commissioner in the Cayman Islands has once again ordered a redacted release of the infamous Operation Tempura corruption report after reviewing the objections of the Governor’s Office, which has refused to release…

The Pope has questioned US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's Christianity over his call to build a border wall with Mexico. Pope Francis said "a person who thinks only about building walls... and not of building bridges, is…

Lord Coe is ready to ban Kenya's track and field team from the Olympics if the country's athletics federation is declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) code. Kenya missed a deadline last week to prove to Wada it…

Former West Indies batsman Andy Ganteaume - the only Test cricketer with a better average than Sir Donald Bradman - has died at the age of 95. Ganteaume scored 112 in his one and only Test, against England in 1948. Read more at:…

Iraq has sentenced 40 men to death over the killing of up to 1,700 military recruits at a former US base in 2014. The Camp Speicher massacre was carried out by fighters from the so-called Islamic State (IS) group as they seized territory…

The criminal case against former Curacao prime minister and current Member of Parliament, Gerrit Schotte, leader of the opposition party MFK, and his partner, Cicely van der Dijs, will be substantively heard over two days on Wednesday and…