BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews Schedule for Monday, July 22, 2024.
KINGSTON – The consultant director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies (The UWI), and Vice-Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, Professor Verene Shepherd, says while she accepts Sunday’s apology for slavery from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, it did not go far enough in apologising for the Anglican Church’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
ST. JOHN’S – An opposition legislator is threatening to take legal action if the Antigua and Barbuda government fails to appoint an Information Commissioner despite promising to do so in May.
PARAMARIBO – The main opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) has reiterated its support for fugitive former president Desi Bouterse whom it named last week as “honorary chairman” insisting that he has made a very significant contribution to the national unity and development of Suriname during his political career.
THE VALLEY – The Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCU), Timothy Antoine says regional recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic remains remarkably resilient.
UNITED NATIONS -The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is leading a delegation to Haiti on Monday during which she is expected to make two “major announcements during her trip to support efforts to respond to the security and humanitarian emergency”.
ST. JOHN’S – It is almost midnight and along the northwest coast of Antigua a muted red light erratically pierces the darkness on a mile-long beach (CMCFeature by Roseann Pile).
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