Richards Publicly Recognises Carnival Sponsors

(ZIZ News) -- The country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture, the Hon. Shawn Richards, has publicly recorded appreciation to this year’s National Carnival or Sugar Mas sponsors. During the adjourning moments of Monday night’s…

New Rental Arrangement To Ease Government Spending

(ZIZ News) -- During the 2016 Budget presentation, Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris said his administration was dissatisfied with the management of government assets, particularly Government-owned businesses. He noted that…

Hon. Ian Liburd Donates to Constituents

(ZIZ News) -- Parliamentary Representative for Constituency #1 Hon. Ian Liburd has made sure that no one is left out this season, as he donated to the old and the young over the past weekend. During closing remarks at the most recent…

Police Investigate Shootings, Break-Ins

(ZIZ News) -- The police are currently investigating a shooting incident in the Ocean Lawns, Camps area that occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning. According to a police statement, at about 12.45am, two armed assailants dressed in…

Sandra Bland jail death: Jury rules against indictments

(BBC) A grand jury has decided not to indict anyone in the case of Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas jail earlier this year. The jury ruled that neither sheriff's officials nor jailers committed a crime in their treatment of Bland. It has…

Islamic State conflict: Iraqi forces ‘move into Ramadi’

(BBC) Iraqi forces are advancing into the centre of Ramadi, after launching a major assault to drive Islamic State militants from the city, officials say. Security sources told the BBC that troops and allied tribesmen, backed by US-led air…

Nigeria raises borrowing in budget as oil prices fall

(BBC) Nigeria's president has announced plans to raise spending by 20% next year by borrowing heavily amid falling oil prices In his first budget since his election victory in March, Muhammadu Buhari said he would spend $31bn (£20.8bn) in…

Stanford requests rehearing of criminal appeal

(Antigua Observer) St. John’s, Antigua - A financial crime consultant here says that convicted Ponzi schemer, R. Allen Stanford, has filed a petition for an “en banc” rehearing with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for are hearing of his…

Mothers of dead babies protest as new UHWI board faces press

(Jamaica Observer) WHILE a few of the mothers whose babies died in the recent bacteria outbreak at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) were outside the facility’s gates protesting yesterday, the hospital’s new board was facing…