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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 20, 2018 (CMC) – Guyana has signed a US$20 million loan with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to support the improvement of the country’s power supply, through the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL Inc.). Finance Minister, ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, September 20, 2018 (CMC) – Governor General, Dame Cecile La Grenade, has issued the writ that will provide for the Parliamentary Elections Office (POE) to conduct the November 6 referendum, as to whether or not Grenada should ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 20, 2018 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it is taking the formation and participation in gangs, very seriously, and that the security forces will be going after gang leaders and apprehending them. “We will be diminishing ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 20, 2018 (CMC) – Attorney General, Faris Al-Rawi, today, said that the state intends filing an appeal against a High Court judge ruling that consensual sex between people in same-sex unions should not ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 20, 2018 (CMC) – The Barbados government has appointed international pop icon, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, with specific responsibility for promoting education, tourism and investment for the island. In accepting her new duties, ...

ORLANDO, Florida, September 20, 2018 (CMC) – A Trinidad and Tobago national, who entered the United States from Canada, was arrested, today, after he jumped a security fence at Florida’s Orlando Melbourne International Airport and boarded a passenger jet. Airport ...

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia September 20, 2018 (CMC) – The United States has named two Trinidad and Tobago nationals as financiers of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “While coalition efforts have led to the collapse of ISIS’s ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, September 20, 2018 (CMC) – St. Lucia recorded 44 new cases of the HIV/AIDS virus, last year, and health officials are urging the public to know their status, as the infection rate, among men, is almost double ...