BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
CASTRIES – Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre has presented an EC$2.05 billion (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) budget to Parliament extending a tax amnesty programme, allowing for improved allowances for nurses and other public sector workers, while insisting that his administration will remain focus as it prepares for a general election in the coming months.
UNITED NATIONS – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Wednesday reiterated a call for an international rules based order to help small island developing states (SIDS) deal with the impact of climate change.
GEORGETOWN – The Guyana government has expressed a “level of surprise and disappointment” at the 2025 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) released by the United States saying that many of the claims made by public officials were not backed by evidence and contradict assessments by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF).
BELMOPAN – Police Commissioner Chester Williams says “it is reasonable to say” that justifiable force was used by the passenger , who shot and killed Akinyela Taylor, who last Thursday had hijacked a Cessna 208EX Grand Caravan carrying 15 passengers and one pilot.
UNITED NATIONS – A delegation from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is leading a humanitarian mission to Haiti this week amid a surge in armed violence that has driven many people to flee their homes, a senior UN official has said.
SPORTS:
LONDON – Following a superb 2024, West Indies’ T20 star Nicholas Pooran has been voted Wisden’s Leading T20 Cricketer in the World.
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