2016

(ZIZ News) -- The government has dismissed claims that PEP workers based at the Newtown Community Centre have been sent home without pay. ZIZ spoke with Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Mr. Osbert Desuza who said…

(SKNIS): The Honourable Eugene Hamilton, Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources underscores the invaluable use of the Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) equipment that has been beneficial to local fishers. The equipment was handed over…

(ZIZ News) -- Former Principal at the then Sandy Point High School, Mr. William Vincent Hodge has been officially announced as the new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education. The announcement came during the Ministry Of…

(ZIZ News) -- The National Emergency Management Agency, The Basic Needs Trust Fund and the Department of Labor, hosted an Occupational Safety and Health Disaster Management Workshop at the NEMA conference room on Wednesday. Disaster…

Brazil's Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget. It puts an end to 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers' Party. Ms Rousseff denies the charges. Read more:…

Israel has approved the construction of 285 new homes at Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to the settlement watchdog Peace Now. A 234-unit nursing home in Elkana, 30 houses in Beit Arye and 20 in Givat Zeev got the…

Tottenham Hotspur have signed Marseille winger Georges-Kevin Nkoudou for an undisclosed fee on a five-year deal. The 21-year-old played 41 times in all competitions for the French club last season, scoring 10 goals. Read more:…

Aaron Finch equalled the Australian record for the fastest one-day international half-century to help his side complete a 3-1 series victory over Sri Lanka in Dambulla. Opener Finch took just 18 balls to reach his fifty - equalling Glenn…

Venezuelan authorities detained a television crew from the Qatar-based news agency Al Jazeera at Maiquetia international airport outside Caracas and plan to expel them, a local journalists union said on Tuesday. The Al Jazeera workers, who…

Public health officials have confirmed that they have received two more positive zika virus tests on blood taken from patients in the Cayman Islands with no travel history. Acting medical officer of health Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez said…

(ZIZ News) -- As his first duty as the newly appointed Permanent Secretary in The Ministry Of Education, William Hodge made an official announcement listing the names of persons promoted to the position of Principal. “The Ministry of…

(SKNIS): The REACH (Recognizing Everyone’s Ability to Climb Higher) programme for students attending the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) and AVEC (Advanced Vocational Education Centre) has been restructured and is now called SAFE…

(SKNIS): Local divers and tourists, who become ill with decompression sickness or what is known as the bends, can get free treatment in a hyperbaric chamber here in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. This service is available at the…

About 6,500 migrants have been rescued off Libya, the Italian coastguard says, in one of the biggest operations of its kind to date. Some 40 co-ordinated rescue missions took place about 20km (12 miles) off the Libyan town of Sabratha, it…

A car driven by a suicide bomber has exploded after ramming the gates of the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, officials say. The suicide bomber died and three embassy employees, all Kyrgyz nationals, were injured, Deputy PM…