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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – Canadian gold-mining company, Guyana Goldfields Inc., has appointed Former United States Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway, as its Senior Vice President in charge of Strategy and Corporate Affairs. The company’s only operating mine ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government said, last Friday, that a meeting with officials of the Bank of Nova Scotia will take place this month, after initially indicating that the bank ...

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) yesterday, presented its slate of candidates to contest the general election that will be held this year. The party presented 11 candidates, however contenders for ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The United States Coast Guard says the crew of its cutter, USCGC Resolute, returned to its homeport in St. Petersburg, Florida, following a 59-day patrol of the Caribbean Sea, in which crew ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it is examining long term solutions that will place the coffee industry in a better position in the future. Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Audley Shaw, said that ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – Retired Guyanese Diplomat, Dr. Mohammed Ali Odeen Ishmael, 70, died in the United States, yesterday. Ishmael was a recipient of the Cacique Crown of Honour — Guyana’s third highest national honour — for ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) says it anticipates being in a position to make all interest payments, by Friday, after experiencing what it termed “a delay” in making the payments that were ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says J$23.6 billion had been in circulation during the month of December, last year, representing a 21.4 percent increase, over the corresponding period in 2017. The BOJ said ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), last Friday, said an earthquake, with a magnitude ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The Grenada government says it intends to find a “speedy and lasting resolution to the pension negotiations” with public servants, who, last year, staged several work stoppages to highlight their causes. The ...