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Kingston, Jamaica -- A May Pen labourer who attempted to smuggle over two pounds of ganja to Curacao has been remanded for sentencing next month. Twenty-four- year-old Shandell Williams entered a guilty plea to the charges possession of…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- In a statement on Wednesday, issued following the shootings at the Canadian parliament in Ottawa, Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister drew a parallel with the 1990 attempted coup that involved a violent assault…

Nassau, Bahamas -- In a move he acknowledged was likely to ruffle feathers, Minister of Financial Services Ryan Pinder said on Wednesday it is time to allow select foreign law firms to operate within The Bahamas’ financial services…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- The government of Belize will receive an additional loan of US$4.584 million from the Caribbean Development Bank for an ongoing road safety project. The original loan of US$7.248 million was approved in 2012, but…

Port Harcourt, Nigeria (AFP) -- The sister of Nigeria's powerful petroleum minister has been kidnapped in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, police said Friday, in the latest abduction targetting a prominent political family. Osio Agama, whose…

Paris, France (AFP) -- A French investigator who went to Moscow to probe the plane crash that killed Total's chief executive said Friday the snowplough that caused the accident crossed the runway and then mysteriously reversed back into the…

Ottawa, Canada (AFP) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was shoved into a closet when a gunmen stormed parliament, local newspapers said Friday. According to MPs cited anonymously by the daily Globe & Mail and others, Harper…

Miami, USA -- The crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Charles David Jr. repatriated 43 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, on Wednesday. These repatriations are a result of three separate interdictions of people attempting to migrate…

Basseterre, St. Kitts -- President of the St. Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union, Mr Joseph O’Flaherty, Jr., has said that workers in St. Kitts and Nevis and the Caribbean sub region as a whole have benefitted from years of trade…

(ZIZ News) -- High level education officials gathered at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort on Wednesday morning for the St. Kitts-Nevis Secondary School Drug Survey Dissemination Seminar. Legal Affairs and Justice Minister the Hon. Patrice…

(ZIZ News) -- As part of the national response to international Ebola concerns the government has established a St. Kitts-Nevis Ebola Readiness Working Group. The group is a sub-section of the St. Kitts Nevis National Disaster Mitigation…

(ZIZ News) -- The nation’s Justice and Legal Affairs Minister, the Hon. Patrice Nisbett told attendees to Wednesday’s Anti-Money Laundering/Countering Financial Terrorism Seminar that there was an urgent requirement for a radical change to…

(ZIZ News) – Police are investigating a shooting incident in West Bourne Ghaut that has left a young man dead. Reports indicate that the victim is Alston Mitcham, said to be in his twenties. According to reports, just after 8 am Mitcham…

NIA Charlestown Nevis -- Deputy Premier of Nevis and Minister of Tourism Hon. Mark Brantley, announced at the 8th Consultation of the Economy on October 16, 2014, that the tourism industry on Nevis was doing well. That achievement he…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) -- Federal Minister of Labour, the Hon. Patrice Nisbett goes to the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly to seek a proposed amendment to the Housing and Social Development Levy Act. The Housing and Social…