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Post Harvest Losses Workshop Underway
(ZIZ News) - The Department of Agriculture has teamed up with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to help farmers mitigate losses to their crops, post harvest.
This is being done through a five-day training workshop dubbed Post…
Registration Officers Sworn In
(ZIZ News) - Registration Officers were sworn in on Monday afternoon at the St. Christopher Electoral Office, in the presence of Supervisor of Elections, Elvin Bailey and Acting Manager of the Electoral Office, Amicia Mussenden.
The four…
Ministry of Education’s Summer Workshop for Teachers
(ZIZ News) - Tradition was kept alive on Monday as the Ministry of Education's Annual Summer Workshop kicked off, signalling the start of the new school term.
Speaking for the first time at the workshop in his capacity as Minister of…
Relief Supplies Arrive in Dominica
(ZIZ News) - The vessel carrying relief supplies from St. Kitts-Nevis to Dominica arrived there safely on Sunday.
MV Miss Abigail arrived in Portsmouth, Dominica at 5:30pm on Sunday and was scheduled to be in Roseau at midday on Monday.…
Hitters Team Searches For Answers
(ZIZ News) - 19-time Premier Division Champions, the Rams Hitters will have to make some adjustments if it hopes to avoid falling in a 2-0 hole in the 2015 SKNABA Premier Division Finals.
Hitters was out-rebounded and outplayed for the…
Vibrant England show nerve in five-run win
Sports Page -- In years to come, people will look at the scorecard of this match and presume that Ben Stokes - with modest bowling figures and a peripheral figure with the bat - played nothing more than a supporting role in this game.
But…
Usain Bolt anchors Jamaica to 4x100m relay gold after U.S. mishap
Sports Page -- Usain Bolt completed a triple gold World Championships performance, anchoring the Jamaican 4x100m relay team to victory over the disqualified U.S. in Beijing on Saturday.
Also Saturday, Ashton Eaton broke his world record in…
Cop killed in jailbreak and two ministers on Trinidad Independence honours list
Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran and Labour Minister Errol McLeod will receive the country’s highest award, the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, as the twin-island republic marks its 53rd…
Seaga to step down as PFAJ head
Kingston, Jamaica -- Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga says he will resign as chairman of the Professional Football Association of Jamaica (PFAJ), effective Tuesday, September 1.
Seaga made the announcement Monday morning at the launch of…
Barbados to explore cultural agreement with Haiti
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (BGIS) -- Barbados is currently exploring the possibility of creating a cultural agreement with Haiti.
This was disclosed by minister of culture, Stephen Lashley, following a meeting with Haitian counterpart, Dithny…
Death toll from Tropical Storm Erika rises to 20 in Dominica; PM says damage worse than expected
Roseau, Dominica -- Twenty people have been confirmed dead in Dominica, following the passage of Tropical Storm Erika, but that number could increase as more than two dozen are still missing. And Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says the…
Kenya celebrates athletes but more doping probes underway
Nairobi, Kenya (AP) -- Some of Kenya's newly crowned track and field world champions returned home on Tuesday and were ferried to a celebratory breakfast in a convoy of limousines bearing the logo "Hotbed of Champions."
Javelin gold…
J’can teen who received heart transplant becomes US citizen
West Haven, Connecticut (AP) -- Thursday was a beautiful day for Rajay Linton on several counts.
In the morning, he went back to Harry M Bailey Middle School for the first time since having a heart transplant last April — and with all…
Dozens of Venezuelans shot by police amid crime crackdown
Maracay, Venezuela (AP) -- Workers in the industrial complex had been hiding in bathrooms and closets for hours when the shooting stopped. The last of the four suspected thieves, a slightly built man in yellow rain boots, surrendered on the…
Bahamian caught at Florida port with cocaine taped to ankles
Florida, United States -- US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested a Bahamian man for smuggling approximately 2.4 pounds of cocaine into the country, taped to his ankles and in his luggage.
The man, whose name was not…