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CANANEWS SCHEDULE AT 1200 ECT

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The following is the CANANews Schedule for Monday, October 6, 2025.

PORT OF SPAIN – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has quietly carried out a minor re-shuffle of her cabinet less than six months after winning the April  28 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago.

GEORGETOWN – Guyana on  Sunday evening commissioned the Chinese funded US$262 million dollar Bharrat Jagdeo Demerara River Bridge, with President Irfaan Ali saying it signals the dawn of a new era of transformation.

ST.  JOHN’S – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has confirmed that the government has acquired a majority stake in Blue Ocean, the company involved in critical dredging projects at the Deep Water Harbour and Crabbes Harbour.

KINGSTON – A four-year-old infant school  pupil was among five people shot  and killed after gunmen opened fire on a group of people playing games at a yard in Linstead,  south east of here on Sunday night.

BELMOPAN – The Belize government has confirmed that an unexploded  and exploded ordnance (UXO) found last week in San Jose Nuevo Palmar Village, northwest of here is a “training bomb” and that the general area was once used as a training ground, “and therefore, similar findings may occur”.

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