At least 235 killed in Egypt mosque attack
CBS News EL-ARISH, Egypt — Militants attacked a crowded mosque during Friday prayers in the Sinai Peninsula, setting off explosives, spraying worshippers with gunfire and killing at least 235 people in...
View ArticleMontserrat not ready for Investors
Montserrat’s realities, says ECCB – Governor Antoine By Bennette Roach As the week of busy budgetary and economic updates, seminars, discussions, negotiations and workshops on border security and...
View ArticleA Third of Secondary School Children in Eastern Caribbean At Risk of Dropping...
Caribbean360 January 23, 2018 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 23, 2018 – A ground-breaking study has found that up to 33 per cent of the children in secondary schools across the Eastern Caribbean are at...
View ArticleAndrew Pearce sworn in as Montserrat’s Governor
By Bennette Roach Montserrat, welcomed new Governor (designate) Andrew Pearce OBE at a special sitting of the Legislative Assembly at the Cultural Centre on Thursday, February 1 with a little less...
View ArticleWhere is the new Hospital?
It has long time gone that the Government of Montserrat should present to the people the real situation of what the general state of affairs was that existed in September 2014, and now, in particular,...
View ArticleSt. Patrick’s Day It’s not too late to get it right!
Once again Montserrat is about to celebrate, but care has been taken in some quarters, to call it ‘commemorate’, through a weeklong St Patrick’s Day calendar of events with regards to what has been...
View ArticleMVO Director Stewart fixes UK Guardian, Express newspapers misrepresentation
by Bennette Roach It wouldn’t be the first time that UK Newspapers have distorted and published information that turned out unfavourable and detrimental to the Island. Here MVO director sets the record...
View ArticleUK newspapers endanger Montserrat, again
by Bennette Roach It wouldn’t be the first time that UK Newspapers have distorted and published information that turned out unfavourable and detrimental to the Island. We can point to the recent not so...
View ArticleAntiguans and Barbudans voting for a new government, voters reportedly turned...
by STAFF WRITER ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Mar 21, CMC – Voters in this Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country are casting ballots Wednesday for a new government in a general election that Prime Minister...
View ArticleAntigua and Barbuda General Election Results – 21 March 2018 – ABLP returned...
General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 21 March 2018. Source: Caribbeanelections.com Click here: Comprehensive report: Electoral System The 17 elected members of the House of...
View ArticleSylvester Silcott: Tributes paid to dad-of-two stabbed to death in Homerton...
Hackney Gazette, UK PUBLISHED: 21 March 2018 | UPDATED: 22 March 2018 Emma Bartholomew and Sam Gelder Another man told the Gazette: “This is a shock for the whole Montserrat community, not just the...
View ArticleFarewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South...
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | April 1, 2018 09:29pm ET An artist’s concept of China’s Tiangong-1 space station prototype burning up in Earth’s atmosphere during its fiery fall back to Earth...
View ArticleAmber Rudd ‘sorry’ for appalling treatment of Windrush-era citizens
TMR: PM May will redeem trust and decency… The Guaradian Minister criticises Home Office and promises cases will be resolved in two weeks Windrush-era citizens row: timeline of key events Amelia...
View ArticleMontserrat wants to go back on list to be decononised
Premier Reuben Meade, May 30, 2012: ”…It is therefore my recommendation that this UN Decolonisation Committee remove Montserrat from their list of non-self-governing countries within their...
View ArticleThe 2018-19 Montserrat Budget Premier Romeo presents $164.8 million
There had been much ‘to-do’ about the budget delay, which, explained by the Premier was due to an ‘inordinate delay in approval by DFID”. Last year the budget was not presented until June,...
View ArticleMontserrat wants to go back on list to be decolonised
Premier Reuben Meade, May 30, 2012: ”…It is therefore my recommendation that this UN Decolonisation Committee remove Montserrat from their list of non-self-governing countries within their...
View ArticlePraises for Sir Dennis Byron as Antigua High Court observers his retirement
by STAFF WRITER ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, May 16, CMC – Prominent regional and international jurists Wednesday praised the contributions of the outgoing President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ),...
View ArticleDavy Hill Side Walk Handover
Davy Hill Community Sidewalk and Pedestrian Disaster Risk Reduction Project was born out of funding from the British Red Cross to carry out Phase II and III of the Disaster Risk Management programme...
View ArticleSisters for Progress: A Committee Organising an Event for International...
March 17 2018 marks the 250th anniversary of the massacre in Montserrat of enslaved Africans who had allegedly plotted to rise up against their enslavers to secure their freedom. There is historical...
View ArticleThe new Police vessel “HELICONIA STAR” arrives
After a voting process lasting over a month, the Montserrat community at home and abroad voted to name the new and long-awaited marine vessel, MV “Heliconia Star“, which arrived on Wednesday morning...
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