BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Friday, March 13, 2026.
BRIDGETOWN – Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) pleased with the results of the inaugural January 2026 CSEC examinations, which were administered in full electronic and hybrid formats.
BELMOPAN – The Belize government says it will cooperate “fully” with the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs and the US State Department to provide “any information or clarification” that would assist in their assessment of the country’s investment climate.
GEORGETOWN – The Guyana government says Venezuela has no legal authority over the waters off the Essequibo Region as it responded to an earlier statement by Caracas that the maritime boundary between the two countries has not yet been legally settled.
PARAMARIBO – President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons says the government will accelerate the implementation of several social measures to mitigate the economic effects of the war in the Middle East on Suriname.
KINGSTOWN – Former speaker, Jomo Sanga Thomas, says he does not regard as “frivolous”, the two petitions filed in the High Court challenging the nomination of Prime Minister Dr. Godwin Friday and his Foreign Affairs Minister, Dwight Fitzgerald Bramble, as candidates for the November 27 general elections last year.
ST. JOHN’S -The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has accepted a recommendation to increase the national minimum wage by four dollars(One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents), the Director General of Communications Maurice Merchant has said.
SPORTS:
PORT OF SPAIN -– President of Cricket West Indies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shallow has dismissed suggestions that both the International Cricket Council (ICC) and CWI failed in their efforts to bring the regional team home from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in a timely manner.
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