NEWS · Aug 16
President to launch mentorship programme for youth in September
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Aug. 16, CMC – President Jeffrey Bostic says the Chapman Challenge initiative will be officially launched on September 23. In a…
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NEWS · Aug 16
Cuban national pleads guilty for role in international ‘alien smuggling’, money laundering conspiracy
TAMPA, Aug. 16, CMC – A 31-year-old Cuban national has pleaded guilty to migrant smuggling, asylum fraud and money laundering charges in…
NEWS · Aug 16
IDB strengthens Belize’s hurricane resilience with first ‘catastrophe swap’
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says Belize will have faster access to emergency financing following major hurricanes…
NEWS · Aug 16
Scholarship to be established to honour late track and field coach
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 16, CMC – The government has announced plans to establish a scholarship for a student-athlete at the University of…
NEWS · Aug 16
Government denies agreeing to amnesty on outstanding water bills
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, Aug. 16, CMC – The government of this British Overseas territory has denied that it promised an amnesty…
NEWS · Aug 15
Efforts underway to boost power supply as El Niño drives record electricity demand
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Aug 15, CMC – The Government is taking a series of measures to strengthen electricity supply as unusually high temperatures…
NEWS · Aug 15
Gov’t explores limited desalination projects amid water stress, rules out nationwide rollout
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug 15, CMC – Government is conducting feasibility studies on potential desalination projects in St Thomas and Clarendon as it…
NEWS · Aug 15
Government to evaluate bids for MV Barima salvage
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Aug 15, CMC – The Guyana Government has moved to the next stage in efforts to salvage the MV Barima,…
NEWS · Aug 15
OAS chief to lead high-level mission to Haiti focused on security, elections, humanitarian needs
WASHINGTON, Aug 15, CMC – The Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin will lead a high-level delegation of…
NEWS · Aug 15
Trump administration establishes task force to end ‘birth tourism’ for Caribbean immigrants
WASHINGTON, Aug 15, CMC – As legal groups file a lawsuit against United States President Donald J. Trump’s new birthright citizenship order…