BRIDGETOWN Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Tuesday, October 8, 2024
PORT AU PRINCE – The new head of the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), Leslie Voltaire, was sworn into officce on Monday despite opposition from outgoing president Edgard Leblanc Fils, who refused to sign a decree ratifying the move.
BRUSSELS – The European Union Tuesday removed Antigua and Barbuda from its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, but kept Trinidad and Tobago and Anguilla on that lst describing them as countries that do not cooperate with the EU or have not fully met their commitments.
ROSEAU – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has called on health ministers from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to ensure that make chronic non communicable diseases (CNCD) a priority for the health agenda in the sub-region.
BRIDGETOWN – Barbados will host a two-day conference on an effective multilateral policing architecture against global threat that gets underway here on Wednesday.
BELMOPAN -Prime Minister John Briceño says his government is exploring the possibility of Belize purchasing electricty from ships that sell the commodity, even as it has received an assurance from the new Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum that she will honour an existing agreement between the two countries.
SPORTS:
ST. JOHN’S – Cricket West Indies (CWI) President, Dr. Kishore Shallow, has extended warm congratulations to the Saint Lucia Kings for their groundbreaking triumph in the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL).
ST. JOHN’S – Antigua and Barbuda won the Eastern Caribbean Golf Association (ECGA) Golf Tournament.
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