Yearly Archives
2020
Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’…
By Tim Weiner Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard, who combined the sacred shouts of the black church and the profane sounds of the blues to create some of the world’s first and most…
COVID-19 And Monkeys
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 8, 2020 (ZIZ News): While live virus testing at National Primate Centers in the United States have demonstrated that the green velvet monkey can contract the COVID 19 virus,…
Post Offices Are Open for Business across St.…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 08, 2020 (SKNIS): The General Post Offices in Basseterre and Charlestown, as well as sub-post offices around St. Kitts and Nevis, are operating under reduced hours, but the…
FAA downgrades the safety rating for the…
By Erasmus Williams Basseterre, St Kitts, May 8, 2020 - The Washington-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Friday that it has downgraded the safety rating for the Organization of…
Four Nevis patients cleared of COVID-19, top…
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 08, 2020) -- The four persons in Nevis who had contracted COVID-19 have been declared free of the disease which has been plaguing the world for the past few months and has…
Limited access to beaches allowed under new…
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 8, 2020 (PLP PR Media Inc.) -- The fight against the Covid-19 global pandemic in St. Kitts and Nevis is far from over, but on advice of the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Hazel…
New COVID-19 Regulations Provide For Five Days of…
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, May 07, 2020 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – In its calculated and careful steps towards gradually opening up the Federation, the Government of St. Kitts and…
Commissioner of Corrections In St. Kitts-Nevis…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 07, 2020 (SKNIS): Commissioner of Corrections at Her Majesty’s Prison in St. Kitts and Nevis, Terrance James, said that the early release of inmates has to first go through…
COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund in No Way Affects…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 07, 2020 (SKNIS): The $15 million earmarked by the St. Christopher and Nevis Social Security Board to facilitate the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund will not impact the…
CMO Laws Lauds Citizens and Residents for Their…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 07, 2020 (SKNIS): Chief Medical Officer (CM)), Dr. Hazel Laws has lauded the efforts of citizens and residents in St. Kitts and Nevis for their support and obedience as the…
Senior Minister Amory Urges Beneficiaries to Spend…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 07, 2020 (SKNIS): Senior Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Security, the Honourable Vance Amory strongly encouraged beneficiaries of the COVID-19 Emergency Relief…
Education minister reports on ‘Back to School’…
ANGUILLA--Students in Anguilla will return to school on Monday, May 11. Minister of Education Cora Richardson-Hodge said that Education officials have been hard at work dealing with all that is needed…
Millie Small: My Boy Lollipop singer dies aged 72
Jamaican singer Millie Small has died at the age of 72 after suffering a stroke. The star was most famous for her hit single My Boy Lollipop, which reached number two in both the US and the UK in…
Member of Cuban Medical Brigade in Dominica, dies
Health Minister, Dr. Irving McIntyre, has confirmed the death of a member of the “Henry Reeve” Cuban Medical Brigade which arrived in Dominica on March 29, 2020, to help in the fight against the…
Nevis Water Department installs drop box to…
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 07, 2020) -- The Nevis Water Department is now offering its clients who settle their accounts via a cheque a more efficient and less time consuming manner in which to do so.…