BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Tuesday, May 13, 2025
BELMOPAN – Prime Minister John Briceño has presented a BDZ$1.74 billion (One Belize dollar=US$0.49 cents) budget to Parliament, indicating that his administration will continue to advance a broad-based tax reform agenda aimed at improving equity, efficiency, and sustainability within the national tax system.
PARAMARIBO – The Governor of the Central Bank of Suriname (CBvS), Maurice Roemer, says which ever government emerges from the May 25 general election here, the first priority should be to structurally link economic policy to a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme.
PORT OF SPAIN – The state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) Tuesday defended its policy of having passengers pay for their tickets in United States currency, saying “it is important to note that around 70 per cent of the airline’s operational and other expenses are payable in foreign currencies”.
ST. GEORGE’S – The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) says it has de-rostered a sitting judge in Grenada after he had ben charged with the indictable offence of “assault with a deadly instrument” .
GEORGETOWN -The Medical Council of Guyana (MCOG) says it has postponed a decision on the short-term registration of Trinidadian pathologist Dr Hubert Daisley, who has been identified by the family lawyers of 11-year-old Adriana Younge to provide a fourth opinion in the ongoing investigation into her death.
SPORTS:
ST JOHN’S – Guyanese all-rounder Realeanna Grimmond and Kittitian fast bowler Jahzara Claxton have been included in a West Indies Women 15-member squad to tour England later this month.
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