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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 15, 2019 (CMC) – President, David Granger, met, today, with members of his Cabinet, in what has been referred to as a “plenary” session, as it sought not to contravene a High Court ruling that the motion ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, February 15, 2019 (CMC) – The St. Kitts-Nevis government, today, warned that “nothing is off the table”, as it announced new initiatives to deal with the “unprecedented spate of violent crime” in the twin-island nation, over the ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, February 15, 2019 (CMC) – Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, are due visit St. Lucia, as part of a visit to the Caribbean, next month, according to a government statement, issued ...

ROME, Italy February 15, 2019 (CMC) – The Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, Dr. Patrick I. Gomes, says the newly-launched Agri-Business Capital (ABC) Fund, with an innovative approach for attracting much-needed capital for ...

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, February 15, 2019,(CMC) – The World Bank has approved a US$35 million flood-risk management project that will benefit more than 350,000 people, living in vulnerable settlements in the Greater Paramaribo area of Suriname. The Washington-based financial ...

BRIDGTOWN, Barbados, February 15, 2019 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) signed a finance agreement with the France-based Agence Française De Développement (AFD), providing three million Euros towards the creation of a more climate-resilient Caribbean region. The financing ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 15, 2019 (CMC) – The Executive Director of the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr. C. James Hospedales, says the regional response to the grave threat, posed by non-communicable diseases ...

By Kenton X. Chance Correspondent KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, February 15, 2019 (CMC) – The former supervisor of elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sylvia Findlay-Scrubb, says she has always considered her role to be one of ...

NASSAU, Bahamas, February 15, 2019 (CMC) – Tourism and Aviation Minister, Dionisio D’Aguilar, says the need for “a national airline, today, is greater than it has ever been”,  and urged the national flag carrier, Bahamasair, to seek full advantage of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 15, 2019 (CMC) – Finance Minister, Dr. Nigel Clarke, presented the Estimates of Expenditure for a J$803 billion budget to Parliament, yesterday. The budget is slightly more than the J$802.5 billion that was expended in the current ...