BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Friday, June 6, 2025.
CARACAS – The Venezuela government Friday expressed “its profound surprise at the irate and unjustified reaction” of the Trinidad and Tobago government in response to what it termed as “ a legitimate complaint” by President Nicolas Maduro about the attempts to overthrow his administration by mercenaries using Trinidad and Tobago.
BRIDGETOWN – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will meet later on Friday to discuss the situation in Haiti, where efforts continue to end the socio-economic and political crisis in that French-speaking CARICOM country.
GEORGETOWN – The Guyana government says it “will continue to work diligently” with the United States after US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a number of named Guyanese and foreign nationals as a result of continuing investigations into the use of Guyana as a place for transhipment of drugs to the North American country.
GEORGETOWN –Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, has criticcised a statement by the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA), urging President Irfaan Ali to withhold assent to the Oil Pollution Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Responsibility Bill.
PARAMARIBO – President Chandrikapersad Santokhi says there must be “no uncertainty or ambiguity in society” as voters in this Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country await the outcome of the May 25 general election.
SPORTS:
ST JOHN’S – The West Indies will have to do without the services of the number two ranked T20 bowler in the world, Akeal Hosein for its first T20I against England on Friday in Durham, after he failed to meet the UK visa requirements.
DUBAI – Despite maintaining their ninth position in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) One Day International rankings, the West Indies are in danger of being overtaken by Bangladesh following their 3-0 defeat to England in the recently concluded ODI series.
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