BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Friday, June 13, 2025
BRASILIA – Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Friday said that the one-day Brazil-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit provides an opportunity to consolidate the work started during his first term in office, as Caribbean leaders welcomed the closer collaboration with the South American country.
BRASILIA – Antigua and Barbuda Friday said it is looking forward to boosting trade, improving transport connectivity, and reinforcing regional supply chains and trade corridors with Brazil, saying these are all essential steps toward achieving food security and building lasting resilience across Latin America and the Caribbean.
GENEVA -The Regional Chief for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) in Latin America and the Caribbean, Nahuel Arenas, says the private sector has to be an ally in building resilience.
GEORGETOWN – The Guyana government says it will be implementing new conditions under which Cuban health professionals will be employed here as it plans to to embark on the “aggressive” recruitment of foreign nurses to work at several new hospitals that are being built across the country.
BRASILIA -The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sas while in recent decades, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have made significant progress in human development, these gains have proven volatile.
SPORTS:
BRIDGETOWN – Dr. Karen Pilgrim is the new chairperson of the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization (RADO), becoming the first female to hold the position in the organization’s history.
LOS ANGELES – West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder will lead the Los Angeles Knight Riders in the 2025 Major League Cricket.
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