BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CCMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Thursday, October 3, 2024
NEW YORK – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Wednesday condemned “in the strongest possible terms” Iran’s ballistic missile strikes against Israel.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations migration office says half of Haiti’s displaced are children, stating that a breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across the French-speaking Caribbean country have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children.
KINGSTON – The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has reported that the Jamaican economy grew by 0.2% during the second quarter of this year, compared to the second quarter of 2023.
GEORGETOWN – The cabinet is preparing to look at the new LIAT 2020 airline’s application to begin operating here in the coming weeks.
SPORTS
KINGSTON- Former Jamaica and West Indies leg-spinner Robert Haynes was officially named the new head coach of the Jamaica Scorpions at a press conference held in the President’s Box at Sabina Park on Wednesday.
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