September 2016

(SKNABA) -- Basketball City was full of excitement on Thursday Evening as the long anticipated 2016 Bigger, Better and More Exciting SKNABA National Bank Premier Division Finals tipped off . Both teams got off to a slow start with Hitters…

Former presidents and officials of the West Indies Cricket Board have urged CARICOM to conduct a forensic audit of the board in order to save West Indies cricket from "absolute and total downfall". READ MORE:…

US Open finalist Angelique Kerber says that being able to call herself the new world number one "sounds amazing". Kerber, 28, beat Caroline Wozniacki in her semi-final as current number one Serena Williams lost against Karolina Pliskova to…

Three women arrested over a foiled attack in Paris were directed by so-called Islamic State (IS) from Syria, a French prosecutor has said. The group "wanted to make the women into fighters", Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said. Read…

Surgeons have used a robot to operate inside the eye and restore sight - in a world first. A team at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital used the device, controlled via a joystick, to remove a membrane one hundredth of a millimetre thick.…

The Atlantic basin is a bit quiet for now, with no organized features at this time. But a couple of tropical systems may develop as the pattern changes early next week. “We are currently monitoring a few tropical waves in the Atlantic…

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Friday September 9, 2016 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will be setting up offices in Jamaica as part of measures to help fight crime and…

NIA – Foreign Affairs Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and Deputy Premier of Nevis Hon. Mark Brantley, welcomed recognition given to Nevis’ thrust in geothermal development by Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States of America (USA),…

(ZIZ News) -- Premier of Nevis and Minister of Social Security the Hon. Vance Amory has said that the social security board has approved a loan to the government for housing development that is expected to stimulate economic growth in a…

(ZIZ News) — In continued efforts to restructure the People Employment Programme, (PEP) the management has begun what has been identified as the PEP Initiative. According to Permanent Secretary Responsible for The People Employment…

(ZIZ News) -- High school students in the Federation will soon be better equipped with knowledge on safety and disaster preparedness as result of a five day Student Emergency Response Team (SERT) training exercise held by the National…

A court in the Indian city of Mumbai has given the death penalty to a man for throwing acid at a woman at a busy railway station three years ago in what is being hailed as a landmark ruling. Preeti Rathi, who was 23 when she was attacked,…

Barack Obama has chided Donald Trump as "wacky" and "uninformed" after the Republican candidate said Russia's President Putin was a better leader. Speaking in Laos, Mr Obama said that every time Mr Trump spoke it became clearer that the…

The US Coast Guard is searching for a woman who reportedly jumped overboard the Carnival Ecstasy cruise ship approximately 27 miles southwest of Freeport, Bahamas yesterday. Read more:…

Jamaica is trying to cash in on the multi-billion-dollar health and wellness tourism sector that several Caribbean countries are turning to in order to boost visitor numbers, but it won’t be traditional medicine it plans to use to reach a…