December 24, 2011
NBA reduces player suspensions
The NBA has reduced suspensions for the Lakers' Andrew Bynum and the Pistons' Charlie Villanueva by one game because of the shortened season. The league on Friday trimmed one game off the five-game ban Bynum was given for knocking the Mavericks'…
December 24, 2011
Allen Stanford ruled fit for trial over ‘Ponzi scheme’
A US federal judge has ruled Texan financier Allen Stanford is mentally fit to stand trial for allegedly operating a $7bn (£4.5bn) Ponzi scheme. Mr Stanford, 61, is accused of one of the biggest white-collar fraud cases since Bernard Madoff. The…
December 24, 2011
Burrell back in the fold
Well-known personalities Horace Burrell, Ronald Jones and Yves Jean-Bart were among nine administrators appointed to restore the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) to normality over the next five months. Burrell, the suspended president of the Jamaica…
December 24, 2011
Fifa riding roughshod over CFU officials—Jack
Former vice-president of world football governing body FIFA, Jack Warner, says the organisation is engaged in a hostile takeover of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and it must be stopped. Warner said FIFA had “no locus standi or even hierarchical…
December 24, 2011
St Kitts welcomes inaugural non-stop commercial flight from Canada
The Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport will today welcome its first non-stop commercial flight from Canada. Government said the Air Canada flight from Toronto will make St. Kitts and its sister island, Nevis, a more viable winter destination…
December 24, 2011
Stanford lawyers file motion to delay January trial
LIAT intends to expand its cargo service next year, Director of Cargo and Quikpak,Wilbur Edwards has said. The disclosure came as the airline announced that its freighter service has transported a million pounds of cargo within a year of its…
December 24, 2011
Michael Blackburn resigns as head of LIAT pilots union
Captain Michael Blackburn has resigned as Chairman of the Leeward Islands Pilots Association (LIALPA) as he prepares to file a lawsuit against regional carrier LIAT challenging his summary dismissal earlier this month. Captain Blackburn said his…
December 24, 2011
India to fund construction of specialty hospital in Guyana
Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr Roger Luncheon said on Wednesday that the EXIM Bank of India has approved and made available the funding at concessionary terms for the construction of a specialty hospital at Liliendaal in Guyana. When…
December 24, 2011
Mel Gibson’s Ex Wife Takes Half His Estimated $850 Million in Divorce Settlement
Mel Gibson is now legally single after his divorce was finalized Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom, but bachelorhood came at a heavy price. Robyn, his ex-wife of nearly 30 years and the mother of their seven children, is walking away with half his…
December 24, 2011
George Michael: ‘Incredibly fortunate to be here’
Returning to London after weeks of being treated in an Austrian hospital for severe pneumonia, singer George Michael revealed Friday his illness was much more serious than his representatives had said previously. "I'd say (it was) touch and go for a…