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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC  – The following is the CANANews Schedule for  Thursday, August 7, 2025

SANTO DOMINGO – A Haitian national was killed and a Dominican soldier injured in an incident near the border wall under construction in the province of Independencia.

KINGSTON- The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) says starting this Saturday,  constituency offices will be to facilitate the collection of Voter ID Cards, especially as  the announcement of the date for the upcoming general election nears.

NEW YORK-The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), a prominent Caribbean immigration advocacy group, says its president and CEO, Murad Awawdeh, along with U.S. Representatives Adriano Espaillat, Nydia Velázquez, and Dan Goldman, was “confined” on Wednesday by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

WASHINGTON- The Organization of American States says it “categorically rejects” what it termed the “false and misleading allegations” recently published regarding the internal functioning, human and financial resource management, and political agenda setting of the hemispheric body.

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