DR Peter Phillips, the finance minister, said yesterday that it would not be hard to resist the “urge to splurge” because there was no money in the kitty to spend on elections widely expected by year-end. Phillips also reiterated that the country had “come too far...
HOUSTON -- The Houston Rockets fired Kevin McHale on Wednesday with the team off to a lackluster 4-7 start just a year after advancing to the Western Conference finals. Assistant J. B. Bickerstaff will take over as interim head coach in the shake-up announced by general...
[caption id="attachment_8700" align="alignleft" width="300"] National Security Minister Edmund Dillon[/caption] PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- There are now 89 Trinidad and Tobago nationals -- including families -- known to the government who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the last three years,...
Residents of St. Kitts and Nevis are advised that an outbreak of a virus infection called Zika was recently reported in Suriname. This is the first confirmed outbreak in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Spread of the virus to the island chain is inevitable because of the...
DESPITE members of the private sector, civil society and the parliamentary Opposition calling for the naming of the election date, prime minister and People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller told thousands of supporters on Sunday night that the date for the 17th General...