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CANANEWS SCHEDULE AT 1200 ECT

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews Schedule for Thursday, January 30, 2025.

PORT OF SPAIN – The Minister of Finance on Thursday announced  that government has given the Administration at the University of the West Indies an improved offer for a wage increase of six percent  for the six-year period August 2014 to July 2020.

NEW YORK – United States President Donald  Trump on Wednesday signed into law a measure  criminalizing Caribbean and other immigrants for nonviolent offenses.

HAVANA – Cuban President and First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Miguel Diaz-Canel described as a brutality act the recent announcement from the Trump administration in the United States about forcibly incarcerating thousands of migrants at its naval base in Guantanamo Bay.

KINGSTON – Investment Minister Senator Aubyn Hill, is encouraging banks to respond to the reduction in interest rates by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), by lowering their interest rates.

 

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