International

RENOWNED BITCOIN PROMOTERS COMMEND ST. KITTS-NEVIS GOVERNMENT ON ADVANCING ITS FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR

January 27, 2020

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, January 27, 2020 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis on Thursday, January 23, passed [...]

Billionaire Alki David faces $58M in damages in battery case

December 3, 2019

LOS ANGELES — A plaintiff’s attorney says billionaire Alki David has been hit with more than $58 million in damages after a jury found him liable for battery, sexual [...]

Man dies in Venice’s worst floods for 50 years as city calls for state of emergency

November 13, 2019

https://youtu.be/rJto5BSt8Zg By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Updated 0847 GMT (1647 HKT) November 13, 2019 A tourist walks near the Rialto bridge after the passage of the [...]

Canada’s CIBC to sell stake in Caribbean operations for $797 million

November 11, 2019

(Reuters) – Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) (CM.TO) said on Friday it had agreed to sell a significant portion of its majority stake in CIBC FirstCaribbean to [...]

The Past and Present Barbarism of the Turkish State.

October 21, 2019

One of the world’s nastiest collection of brutally barbaric peoples came to an end in 1922. The Ottoman Empire, empire created by [...]

State of Emergency Declared in Ecuador Amid Protests

October 3, 2019

Protesters took to the streets of Ecuador’s major cities on Thursday, blocking major roads in Quito and Guayaquil to protest the scrapping of fuel subsidies, part of [...]

Sanctions-busting tanker de-flagged by St Kitts & Nevis registry

August 14, 2019

Lloyd’s List Intelligence data tracks the Bonita Queen loading crude off the coast of Iran on Kharg Island, with the aframax tanker breaching US sanctions. St Kitts & [...]

ST. KITTS-NEVIS AND THE STATE OF PALESTINE SIGN AGREEMENT TO ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

July 30, 2019

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 30, 2019 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis took a significant and historic step forward on Monday, July 29, when Foreign Minister, the Honourable [...]

A tale of two positives attracting each other

July 29, 2019

Shobha Shukla – CNS I met the two of them at the Clinica Condesa Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, where I had gone to attend the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS [...]

Writing’s on the wall: No #endAIDS without #endTB

July 26, 2019

Shobha Shukla – CNS TB and HIV both are preventable, but cutting the chain of transmission of HIV and TB is proving to be a daunting task. Treatment exists for both TB and [...]