BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Wednesday, October 23, 2024.
PORT OF SPAIN – Guyana’s President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, Wednesday urged regional countries to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in education warning that failure to do so could result in the Caribbean being left behind in an era of technological development.
APIA – Bahamas Prime Minister Phillip Davis Wednesday called on Commonwealth countries to work together to make wealth more common in the Commonwealth, a grouping of former British colonies.
WASHINGTON – Governor of the Trinidad and Tobago Central Bank (CBTT), Dr. Alvin Hilaire has called on the international community “to stand ready” to assist Haiti which is grappling with a political and socio-economic crisis worsened by criminal gang activities.
GEORGETOWN – Attorney General, Anil Nandlall says the embattled Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus, will go down in Caribbean history as the highest ranking police officer in Guyana “to be implicated in this level of criminality” as the authorities prepare to lay several fraud related charges against him.
UNITED NATIONS – The head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), Maria Isabel Salvador, has warned that criminal gangs are stepping up attacks in areas they do not yet control and that the situation in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country “has unfortunately deteriorated”.
SPORTS:
BALAGOLLA – West Indies posted 189 all out in 36 overs against Sri Lanka in the second One Day International at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium here Wednesday.
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