BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Tuesday, January 7, 2025.
GENEVA -The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, Tuesday reiterated a call for countries not to repatriate Haitians to their homeland as the UN Human Rights Office reported that at least 5,601 people were killed in Haiti last year.
PARAMARIBO – Suriname says it’s request to Brazil to extradite local politician Joel ‘Bordo’ Martinus, who is suspected of having committed serious criminal offences here, has been denied.
WASHINGTON – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched an interactive dashboard to monitor avian influenza A(H5N1) cases in the Americas including the Caribbean.
PARAMARIBO – The lawyers for the family of the late Suriname president, Desi Bouterse, say they have been invited for talks with the Public Prosecution Service (OM)after they had threatened to take legal action against the government for publicly disclosing the cause his death last week.
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GEORGETOWN – Legendary former West Indies captain Sir Clive Lloyd believes that if the International Cricket Council (ICC) implements a proposed two-tier World Test Championship (WTC) system it would be detrimental to the development of West Indies cricket.
ST GEORGE’S – Grenada’s first Olympic medalist Kirani James was conferred with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies global campus over the weekend in recognition of his excellence in athletics.
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