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New Year's Honours (ITV.com)

See strict 0001 GMT Wednesday December 31 embargo. KNIGHTS BACHELOR Professor Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse. For services to Education. (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Professor David Nicholas Cannadine.

New Year Honours list (Daily Telegraph)

Professor Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse. For services to Education. (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Professor David Nicholas Cannadine. Formerly Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Professor, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. For services to Scholarship.

Consultant wants financing for certain courses slashed (The Jamaica Observer)

AS more students matriculate, and competition for scarce resources intensifies, questions are being raised as to whether all the programmes on offer at the University of the West Indies (UWI), the Caribbean's oldest and premier university, should be funded by the state.

Second homes: In St. Kitts and Nevis, beauty's unspoiled, and so is the economy (USA Today)

After more than 500 years of rich history, the Confederation of St. Kitts and Nevis is entering a new chapter as the hottest second-home destination in the Caribbean.

'Caribbean brand' to boost tourism (Trinidad Express)

The establishment of a Caribbean brand for regional tourism sector will not impact negatively on national branding but in fact serve to boost it, Caricom Ambassador Irwin Larocque, assistant secretary-general of trade and economic integration, assured the media last week via video conference from Barbados.