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Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- The parade of cruise ships into St. Kitts’ Port Zante continued Monday and Tuesday of this week with just under 11,500 from 5 ships. Three ships are scheduled to visit Wednesday, the Celebrity Eclipse, the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas says the double salary been paid to Federal civil servants this week is not been financed by the Sugar Industry Diversification Foundation (SIDF). In…

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, DECEMBER 16TH 2014 (CUOPM) – As world oil prices continue to drop, motorists at SOL gas stations in St. Kitts continue to pay less for gasoline at the pump. The Ministry of Finance announced Monday that effective…

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS -- There will be no new taxes for the budgetary period 2015. Premier of Nevis and Minister of Finance Hon. Vance Amory made that disclosure when he presented the Nevis Island Administration’s just over $165 million…

(ZIZ News) -- Mark Powell of The Alley, Sandy Point was formally arrested and charged for Refusing to Give Name, which was committed on 12th December 2014. Ashley Parris of Bath Village was formally arrested and charged for Possession of…

Basseterre, St. Kitts -- Tenets of good neighbourliness came into play in the period December 10 to December 16 as residents of Newtown were afforded free hair-do and styling, manicures and pedicures by students of the PEP School of…

(ZIZ News) -- The seven finalists who will seek to dethrone the reigning Senior Calypso Monarch, Richie Buntin, have been named. Lady Diva, Lord Kut, Astro, Queeny G, Socrates, Rudder and Big Lice have advanced to the final round of the…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has described the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) as an example of cooperation to improve health care,…

(ZIZ News) -- The country’s Health Minister, the Hon. Marcella Liburd, was among those present at Monday morning’s Annual Christmas Programme at the Mary Charles Hospital. Minister Liburd, who delivered brief remarks, used the opportunity…

(ZIZ News) -- Four days of budget debates concluded on Friday in the National Assembly Chambers at Government Headquarters. During his rebuttal, the Nation’s Leader and Finance Minister, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas said boldly that…

NIA Charlestown Nevis -- The following is the full text of a statement made by Premier of Nevis Hon. Vance Amory regarding the status of a double salary payment to Civil Servants on Nevis. “My Fellow Nevisians and Citizens of St. Kitts and…

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (December 15, 2014) --Premier of Nevis and Minister of Finance in the Nevis Island Administration Hon. Vance Amory will present the 2015 Budget at a sitting of the Nevis Island Assembly on December 16, 2014. The…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas says closure of the 350-year-old sugar industry in St. Kitts in 2005, has resulted in the Federation becoming a leader in the regional…

(ZIZ News) -- On 16th December 2014, members of the Violent Crime Unit, Crime Scene Unit, Criminal Investigations Department, Special Services Unit and Drug Squad responded to a report made of a shooting incident that occurred on Sanddown…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- Parliamentary approval of the 2015 Budget in the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly last Friday gives the governing St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Administration the greenlight to “move forward unimpeded -…