August 2016

Island Purified Water Issues Statement

August 08, 2016 in National

St. Kitts and Nevis (Island Purified Water): Recently, Island Purified Water Ltd. temporarily suspended its plant operations in order to investigate and address certain operational issues. The operational issues in question were identified and successfully addressed resulting in the company’s recommencement of its plant operations. Island...

Brathwaite new Windies T20 captain

August 08, 2016 in Sports

World T20 winning captain Darren Sammy has been replaced as captain of the West Indies T20 team by Barbadian Carlos Brathwaite. The all rounder who smacked four sixes in the final over of the world T20 finals in India against England to lift the title is...

Shooting incident at Fenton Hill Nevis

August 08, 2016 in National

Unconfirmed reports coming in to Freedom Fm Newsdesk are of a shooting incident in he Fenton Hill area of Nevis on Sunday around noon. Reports are that a young man was coming from church when he was subjected to gunshot fire from 2 masked men. The incident...

Antigua rattled by earthquake

August 08, 2016 in Regional

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 rocked Antigua on Monday but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) at the University of the West Indies (UWI) said that the quake occurred at...

9-y-o Canadian among dead in St Elizabeth crash

August 08, 2016 in Regional

ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – The police are reporting the death of two individuals and injury of six others following a motor vehicle collision along the Content main road in St Elizabeth, yesterday. The deceased have been identified as nine-year-old Impressi Hughes of an Ontario, Canada address...