BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Thursday, November 6, 2025.
BRIDGETOWN – Guyanese born, Muhammad Ibrahim, has been elected the new Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), promising to work across the board for the Latin America and Caribbean region.
GEORGETOWN – The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Thursday withdrew and discontinued tax-related charges against the leader of the main opposition We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party, Azruddin Mohamed.
FLORIDA – The Third District Court of Appeal has upheld a US$131 million judgment against Trinidad and Tobago businessman Steve Ferguson, who had been accused of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme tied to the construction of the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago.
WASHINGTON – A group of United States legislators has written to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, urging President Donald Trump to issue immediate designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Jamaica following the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Melissa.
KINGSTON – The General Accident Insurance Company (Jamaica) Limited (GENAC) says it is moving towards completing the acquisition of the Trinidad-based Beacon Insurance Company Limited (Beacon) as it moves towards creating a leading Caribbean insurer.
BELMOPAN – A former executive director of the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), says Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries must keep pressing the international community to more aggressively address global warming by implementing deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions and transitioning to a low carbon global economy to avoid the catastrophic impact of a weakening Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
SPORTS:
AUCKLAND – Mark Chapman bludgeoned a half century, while captain Mitchell Santer and Ish Sodhi came good with the ball, as New Zealand recorded a nail-biting three run win over the West Indies in the second T20I here on Thursday.
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