Published 8 September 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
In Hurricane Irma’s Catastrophic Path
Hurricane Irma is wreaking destruction across the Caribbean and heading for Florida this weekend. In Mexico, a major quake has hit off the Pacific coast. Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:
Published 22 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
US Treasury Department slaps IPSA with a US$259,000 fine
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 22ND 2017 – The United States-based IPSA International, the company that Les Khan left to take up his appointment offered by St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris as the new head of the St. Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Programme, has been slapped with a US$259,200 fine by the Washington-based Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Published 21 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
Record $417M award in lawsuit linking baby powder to cancer
A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene.
The verdict in the lawsuit brought by the California woman, Eva Echeverria, marks the largest sum awarded in a series of talcum powder lawsuit verdicts against Johnson & Johnson in courts around the U.S.
Published 21 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
An upcoming update to Google’s Android software finally has a delectable name. The next version will be known as Oreo, extending Google’s tradition of naming each version after a sweet treat.
Google anointed the software Monday after spending the past few months referring to it as “Android O.”
Published 21 August 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
U.S. Government critical of St. Kitts and Nevis, Caribbean states on “religious tolerance”
WASHNGTON, D.C., AUGUST 21ST 2017 – The U.S. Government has criticised the Timothy Harris-led PLP/CCM/PAM administration in Basseterre for what says is its “religious intolerance.”
In releasing the 2016 International Religious Freedom Report last week, the United States Department of State said that almost 20 years after passage of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, “conditions in many parts of the world are far from ideal,” including those in the Caribbean.
