NIA Charlestown, Nevis – Premier of Nevis, the Honourable Mark Brantley, is set to travel to Grand Cayman this week to undertake official duties. Brantley is scheduled to leave the Federation on Wednesday, July 8, and is expected to return on Sunday, July 12. In his absence, the Honourable Eric Evelyn will assume the role of […]

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, Jul 9, CMC – The Government of Saint Lucia has defended its handling of the disappearance of fishermen at sea in February 2026, saying the matter has been managed responsibly and in keeping with established procedures. The statement on Thursday came a day after Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre faced questions from […]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 9, CMC – There were emphatic wins for Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda when the FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Caribbean Pre-Qualifiers bounced off here on Wednesday. Barbados was led by a team-high 15 points from Kyrone Alexander on their way to blowing out Cayman Islands 89-54 at the […]

MONACO, Jul 9, CMC – Olympic sprint champion Julien Alfred will face one of her toughest challenges this year when she lines up against Gabby Thomas and Adaejah Hodge in the women’s 200 metres at Friday’s Monaco Diamond League. The race at Stade Louis II will feature Alfred, Thomas and Hodge – the three fastest women […]

The report sets the 2024/25 baseline position – the starting point for child poverty before the landmark Child Poverty Strategy was published – and outlines how progress will be measured over the Strategy’s full ten-year course, with annual reporting providing transparency and accountability. Scrapping the two-child limit, expanding free school meals from September 2026 and launching […]

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) plans to modify how it issues building assessment certificates (BACs). The proposed new approach will be more proportionate and targeted. It will also offer greater support to resident-led principal accountable persons (PAPs). The building assessment certificate foundation plan responds to feedback from PAPs, financial institutions and other stakeholders. It addresses the […]

The Department of War announced today the award of two Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements to advance the United States’ next-generation cruise missile and unmanned aerial system (UAS) defense architecture. The agreements with nLIGHT Defense and Lockheed Martin Aculight, executed by the Department’s Scaled Directed Energy (SCADE) Critical Technology Area […]

A Maryland man was sentenced today in connection with charges stemming from his attempt to join and fight for ISIS.  U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson sentenced Michael Sam Teekaye Jr., 22, to 15 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Teekaye […]

On July 7, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) held the first-of-its-kind Higher Education Fraud Summit featuring Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent, Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division Colin McDonald, and White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Executive Director Scott Brady. The event drew over 800 participants to discuss […]

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer asking North Carolina officials to not release from jail a criminal illegal alien charged with causing a car crash that killed a 6-year-old girl in Pitt County. According to local reporting, the crash occurred on […]