March 2016

(ZIZ News)— Students and staff at the Cotton Thomas Comprehensive School joined the global community in observing World Down Syndrome day for the first time on March 21st. Principal of the school Charmaine Blanchette said observing the day…

(SKNIS): A fleet of vehicles was donated to the Water Services Department by the Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis and the Government of National Unity in an effort to maximize the department’s services to the people of St. Kitts and…

(ZIZ News) -- The court has awarded about half a million dollars to a couple in Nevis who were the victims of a sex video scandal three years ago. According to the couple’s lawyer, Angelina Sookoo, in 2013 the male victim was in police…

(ZIZ News) -- On Tuesday St. Kitts and Nevis will be joining other countries across the globe in commemorating World Water Day. The theme this year is “Water and Jobs” Minister of Public Infrastructure, the Hon Ian Liburd launched a…

(SKNIS): Notice has been given and the Order Paper circulated for a sitting of the National Assembly to be held at the National Assembly Chambers at Government Headquarters on Wednesday 23rd March, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. The National Assembly…

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (March 21, 2016) -- Sylvester Meade, overall winner of the Ministry of Tourism’s first Photographer of the Year Competition hosted by the Ministry of Tourism on Nevis, says his passion for photography was one of the…

At least 13 people have been killed after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on a Spanish motorway between the cities of Barcelona and Valencia. Most of the 57 people on board the bus were students on the Erasmus programme who were…

President Barack Obama has arrived in Cuba for a historic visit to the island and talks with its communist leader. He is the first sitting US president to visit since the 1959 revolution, which heralded decades of hostility. Read more at:…

(SKNIS): The People’s Labour Party in Team Unity is hosting the Annual Kite Flying Competition in Belle Vue on Good Friday, March 25, 2016, starting at 11am. The Competition was introduced to help revive the cultural pastime of kite flying…

(SKNIS): Three of the participants of this week’s fetal and pediatric cardiography workshop expressed pleasure with the training, noting that it will be effectively used in the countries where they operate. Dr. Gillian Birchwood, a newborn…

(ZIZ News) -- Local writer and voice actor, Delé Adams says his production team’s recent win at the Kingstoon Animation Festival indicates that the future of Caribbean animation and filmmaking looks bright and he hopes governments will come…

(SKNIS): Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Kaye Bass, has articulated the position of St. Kitts and Nevis in Geneva, Switzerland, where she gave a report on the Universal Periodic Review for Consideration to the…

A suicide bomb attack at a busy shopping area in the Turkish city of Istanbul has killed at least four people, officials say. Another 36 were injured - 12 foreign nationals - as the bomb went off near a government building on Istiklal…

All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport , Russian officials said. READ MORE:…

Allegations of a breach of the Parliament rules against the hiring of relatives gathered momentum yesterday with fresh claims that Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has broken the rules too. Reports surfaced yesterday that…