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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC –  The following is the CANANews Schedule for Tuesday, December 30, 2025.

PORT OF SPAIN -The Trinidad and Tobago  government is exploring the possibility of regional and international partners being involved in the re-start of the state-owned oil refinery that was shut down  in 2018 when the former government said the cost of upgrading the refinery would have loaded the company with an unsustainable debt burden estimated at TT$12 billion (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) of which TT$5.780 billion is due in August 2019.

PARAMARIBO – The Suriname government has declared Friday as a day of national mourning following the tragic incident that occurred on Sunday in the Commewijne district where a 42 year-old man killed nine people, including four of his own children.

KINGSTON -The attprmey for the former chief executive officer of the failed investment firm, Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL), Zachary Harding, is calling on all parties “to allow the justice system to function based on facts, rather than unverified assertions and assumptions”.

ST. GEORGE’S – Health authorities say there is no evidence of an “unusual disease outbreak” at this time in Grenada, noting that the claims made on social media “do not reflect the current epidemiological situation based on routine national surveillance data”.

KINGSTOWN – Police have issued wanted bulletins for two people after a member of the British Royal Navy was left with nursing an injury to her eye and a vehicle  riddled with bullets in a kidnapping attempt on Monday.

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