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October 13, 2013
U.S. Senate leader sees chance for breaking fiscal…
By David Lawder and Tim Reid WASHINGTON | Sun Oct 13, 2013 (Reuters) - Senate negotiations to bring a boiling fiscal crisis to an end showed signs of progress on Sunday, but there were no guarantees…
St. Kitts and Nevis pledges to reduce deaths from…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 13TH 2013 (CUOPM) – St. Kitts and Nevis’ Minister of Health, the Hon. Marcella Liburd, was among health leaders from across the Americas who have agreed a pledge to cut…
St. Kitts and Nevis now a leading cruise…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 13TH 2013 (CUOPM) – A top tourism official in Antigua says that St. Kitts and Nevis is now a leading cruise destination in the OECS. According to Antigua and Barbuda’s…
Mass evacuation saves Indian lives as cyclone…
By Sruthi Gottipati and Jatindra Dash GANJAM/BHUBANESWAR, India | Sun Oct 13, 2013 (Reuters) - A mass evacuation saved thousands of people from India's fiercest cyclone in 14 years, but aid workers…
A&B gets set for Miss Caribbean Tourism Queen…
OBSERVER Entertainment - Friday, October 11th, 2013. Antigua & Barbuda’s representative Althea Richardson-Walter Daughter of the soil Althea Richardson-Walter will be representing Antigua &…
Former prime minister wants Caribbean leaders to…
By CMC BRIDGETOWN, Barbados– Former Jamaica prime minister PJ Patterson says the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping needs to strongly condemn recent developments in the Dominican…
UK Government Blocks Caribbean Reparations Bid
Written by Mary Isokariari 12/10/2013 THE UK Government is rebuffing attempts by several Caribbean countries to force it to pay reparations for slavery. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office told The…
U-19s fall to Bangladesh
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC:West Indies Under 19s crashed to an ignominious 198 run defeat against Bangladesh Under 19s in the third Youth one-day international (ODI) match on Friday. The West Indies were…
Expansion of Arrival Hall will accommodate an…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 12TH 2013 (CUOPM) - Work has begun on the expansion of the Arrival Hall at St. Kitts’ Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport Terminal. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of…
St. Kitts and Nevis students among the increasing…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 12TH 2013 (CUOPM) – Nationals of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis are counted among the increasing number of transfer students attending the University of the…