Monthly Archives

May 2016

Tourism Awards Finalists Announced

Thirty finalists will vie for various awards in the 2016 St. Kitts Tourism Experience Awards, which takes place on Saturday 21st May at the Carambola Beach Club. According to a statement The St. Kitts Tourism Experience Awards is the…

Sand sculpting competition

(ZIZ News) -- On Sunday the Department of Youth Empowerment hosted a beach event to bring fathers and children together. The Father Child Sand Sculpting Competition was held at the Marriott Beach. Three father child teams took part in the…

Youth show creative products at Junior Achievement Trade Fair

(ZIZ News) -- The results of weeks of planning, marketing, research and creativity were put on display on Friday when participants in the Junior Achievement Programme in St. Kitts and Nevis offered their services for hire at a Trade Fair at…

Illegal firearm seized during community safety patrol in Cayon

(RSCNPF): A community safety patrol by men of the Tactical Unit in Cayon has resulted in the seizure of a .40mm pistol and a magazine with fourteen (14) rounds of .40mm ammunition. While patrolling to ensure citizen safety in the “shanty…

Mosquito Awareness Week

(ZIZ NEWS)— The Ministry of Health raised awareness on mosquitoes in the Federation with an exhibition at the Independence Square on Friday. According to Deputy Chief Environmental Health Officer, Jermaine Lake, the awareness campaign was…

Pay hike for Jamaica’s early childhood educators

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Friday May 13, 2016 – Early childhood education teachers are to benefit from a further 15 percent increase in salary this year. State Minister of Education, Youth and Information Floyd Green, who made the announcement on…

Nigeria Hosts Regional Summit On Battling Boko Haram

Regional and western powers gathered in Nigeria to discuss their war with boko haram, as the United Nations said the group posed a major threat to security in West Africa. Nigeria is seeking closer military cooperation to bring to an end…

UK Priest Wanted Over Sex Abuse Claims ‘Held In Kosovo’

A British former Catholic priest wanted over child sex abuse allegations has been arrested in Kosovo, local police sources say. Lawrence Soper was being hunted over sex offences allegedly carried out when he was abbot of Catholic Ealing…

Cayman Islands premier calls for end to global hypocrisy

The Cayman Islands premier has called on the world’s nations attending the anti-corruption summit in London to stop the hypocrisy regarding the fight against financial crime and make standards truly global. Alden McLaughlin did not name…