BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Monday, August 19, 2024.
ROSEAU- The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Monday said it has embraced artificial intelligence (AI) and is now creating the environment for academic integrity and safeguarding against “intellectual laziness”.
PORT OF SPAIN – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says a national consultation on constitution reform will be held in October this year dismissing in the process, opposition suggestion of an early general election in Trinidad and Tobago.
CASTRIES – The St. Lucia population declined by nearly four per cent over the 2022 figure of 172,948, the Central Statistical Office (CSO) has announced as it released the first comprehensive report from the 2022 Population and Housing Census (PHC).
KINGSTON – Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says he intends writing to the Office of Utilities Regulations (OUR) on Monday amid reports that customers of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) customers have been receiving an “unusual and major spike” in their latest electricity bills.
BRIDGETOWN – The expelled leaer of the main opposition Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Dr. Ronnie Yearwood, is hoping that the party’s annual general conference later this week, will reverse the decision to remove him and the former general secretary, Steve Blackett.
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ST. JOHN’S – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced that elections for the office of Vice President will take place on September 20, 2024. The decision follows a meeting of the CWI Board of Directors on Thursday, August 8, 2024, in response to a recent ruling by the High Court of Guyana.
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