Music Festival offers opportunity to more locals

(ZIZ News) -- The 19th edition of the St. Kitts Music Festival got underway on Thursday night with an explosion of soca music. In addressing a question posed on the infusion of a wider range of entertainment into the festival, Minister of…

C.P.L. owner delighted to bring team to St. Kitts and Nevis

(ZIZ News) -- Despite a rocky start to the 2015 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) for the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots, one of the team’s owners says he is still excited they were able to bring a franchise to the Federation. Patriots'…

Tourism Industry Worker speaks on importance of his job

(ZIZ News) -- It was a busy day on Thursday June 25th for employees within the tourism sector as hundreds of tourists lined the streets of Basseterre and visited shops at Port Zante. One group of young men seemed particularly busy as they…

Journalist jailed in Zimbabwe for starting newspaper

Harare, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The attorney for a Zimbabwe journalist says his client was convicted of publishing a newspaper in a southern town without government permission and sentenced to eight months in prison. Several newspapers and radio…

Trinidad hit by earthquake

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 rocked Trinidad and Tobago late Thursday night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury, the Seismic Unit of the University of the West Indies (UWI)…

CARICOM “strongly objects” to EU tax haven blacklist

Georgetown, Guyana (CMC) -- More than a week after the European Union named 13 Caribbean countries among a list of 30 nations deemed as tax havens, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has taken strong objection to the Europe’s…