May 2018

Funerals are being held in Gaza for 58 people killed on Monday when Israeli troops opened fire during Palestinian protests, in the deadliest day of violence there since a war in 2014. The burials coincide with the 70th anniversary of…

Ex-England captain Alastair Cook should bat at number three in the Test side or not play, according to former team-mate Nick Compton. Opening batsman Cook, 33, is the country's leading run-scorer, making 12,028 runs in his 154 Test…

Two days after the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC) stoutly defended the integrity of the electoral process and openly dismissed allegations of discrepancies on the preliminary voters’ list of just over 256,990 people,…

(SKNIS): A British High Court has confirmed that it has no evidence that the Dr. Timothy Harris-led St. Kitts and Nevis Government concluded any contract with PV Energy Ltd (PVE), a business engaged in the provision of renewable energy and…

(RSCNPF): Three (3) persons are presently in Police custody assisting with investigations into the death of Sergeant Dwight Davis. Two (2) persons were held for questioning on Saturday, May 12, along with one (1) person who was held on…

A body found at a marina on the banks of the Firth of Forth has been confirmed as missing Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison. The discovery was made at Port Edgar, between the Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing, at about…

Juventus' Gianluigi Buffon has been charged by Uefa over comments about referee Michael Oliver after their Champions League defeat by Real Madrid. Buffon was sent off for dissent after Oliver awarded Real a late penalty, which they…

While Chikungunya and Zika which swept the region in 2014 and 2016 are not expected back anytime soon, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is warning residents to “gear-up for the possibility of a major outbreak of dengue fever in…

Iran has backed Syria's "right to defend itself" after Israel launched strikes on what it said was Iranian military infrastructure inside Syria. In the first comments by Iran since Thursday's wave of strikes, the foreign ministry…

Rafael Nadal's 21-match unbeaten run on clay ended as he was knocked out of the Madrid Open in the quarter-finals by Dominic Thiem. Nadal had been unbeaten on the surface since losing to Thiem in May 2017and again lost to the Austrian…

During a podcast interview last week by journalist Freddy Gray for Britain’s Spectator magazine, Sven Hughes, a former employee of the SCL Group/Cambridge Analytica, discussed SCL’s work in manipulating election outcomes in the Caribbean in…

A 34-year-old politician was one of three men jointly charged with conspiracy to import and trafficking cannabis, after a compressed quantity of the illegal drug was found inside a barrel at the Maurice Bishop International Airport last…

Two employees of an aviation services company and two security guards are among five people charged in what is reported to be the single largest cocaine bust at the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago. Krystel Birot, 24,…