BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Monday, July 21,2025.
ST. JOHN’S – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) has agreed that it should be kept “up to date routinely” on projects in excess of EC$10 million (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) following the controversy over the construction of the multi-million dollar residence for the Governor of the bank.
PORT OF SPAIN – Police Commissioner, Allister Guevarro, is urging the public of Trinidad an Tobago to support the police as the country continues to be under state of emergency (SoE) after police said last week that they had received intelligence reports “whereby organised criminal gangs with persons inside of the prisons and persons operating on the outside of the prisons have formed themselves into what I would want to term an organised crime syndicate”.
PORT AU PRINCE – The new United States Ambassador to Haiti, Henry Wooster, says his priority is to address the security situation in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country where criminal gangs have been seeking to overthrow the government.
NASSAU – A High Court has awarded US$3.6 million to the family of a child after a botched delivery 12 years ago left their newborn boy with lifelong brain injuries and near-total physical disability.
PORT AU PRINCE – Gang violence in Haiti has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and many are finding shelter in former schools where belief in the power of education remains strong. (CMCFeature).
SPORTS:
KINGSTON – Heroics from pacer Ben Dwarshuis and batsmen Mitchell Owen and Cameron Green propeled Australia to a tense three-wicket win over the West Indies in the opening T20I here on Sunday night.
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