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CANANEWS AND SPORTS SCHEDULE AT 1200 ECT

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Tuesday, June 10,2025.

NEW YORK – Chairman of the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Ian Gooding-Edghill, says he is looking forward to the 2025 State of the Tourism Industry Conference (SOTIC) to be held in Barbados later this year, following a successful Caribbean Week here.

NEW YORK – Caribbean-American Congresswoman, Yvette D. Clarke, has described as “an authoritarian escalation” the decision by President Donald J. Trump to deploy marines on the streets on Los Angeles to help quell protests against raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on Caribbean and other immigrants.

BELMOPAN – The Belize government Tuesday defended the hiring of  the financial administrator for the Global Fund Implementation Unit, reaffirming its “commitment to transparency, good governance, and the successful implementation of the Global Fund Grant in Belize.

PORT OF SPAIN – An Appeal Court has reinstated the TT$20 million (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) compensation award to nine men who had earlier been found not guilty of the murder of the high profile kidnapping and murder of businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman.

GENEVA – The executive director of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), Misha Lobban Clarke, says the eighth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) held here last week highlighted the importance of the private-public partnership.

SPORTS:

LONDON -The West Indies look to avoid being whitewashed in the three-match T20I series  with the final game set to be played on Tuesday.

ST JOHN’S – The trio of Dilum Sudeera, Dulaj Samuditha and Ashian Daniel spun a web around West Indies Academy’s batters to propel Sri Lanka Emerging Players to a 75-run win inside three days in the opening four-day match.

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