KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is reducing the policy interest rate, offered on its overnight balances, by 25 basis points, to 1.25 percent, in a move, aimed at returning and retaining the inflation ...
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LIAT’s Chief Executive Officer Explains Reasons Behind Flight Cancellations
ST.JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the regional airline, LIAT, Julie Reifer-Jones, said, this afternoon, that an unscheduled maintenance on two of its aircraft was the main reason, behind the decision ...
Read More »Guyana’s President Granger Not Impressed With Business Community’s Statement On Political Situation
GEORGEROWN, Guyana, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – President, David Granger, says he is not impressed, with the statement by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and its affiliates, that “political uncertainty” is gripping the country, as it awaits a Caribbean Court ...
Read More »Construction Of Jamaica’s New Parliament Building To Begin By 2021
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says construction of the new Parliament building is expected to commence by 2021. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, made the statement, as he announced the winner of the government’s House of ...
Read More »Caribbean Losing Momentum On Climate Change; Concerted Action Needed
By Alison Kentish IPS Feature Writer CASTRIES, ST. Lucia March 28, 2019 (IPS) — In 2015, the Caribbean was “the region that could” on the climate change scene. Countries rallied under the “1.5 to Stay Alive” banner, in the face ...
Read More »LIAT Cancels Several Flights
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – The financially-strapped regional airline, LIAT, announced, today, the cancellation of several flights, due to what it termed “operational reasons”. The airline did not elaborate on the “operational reasons” but, in ...
Read More »St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister To Meet With Expatriates In Toronto
TORONTO, Canada, March 28, 2019 — The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Timothy Sylvester Harris, is expected to update Kittitians and Nevisians, living in Canada, of the many positive developments taking place in the twin-island Federation, when ...
Read More »CARICOM Says Europe’s Blacklisting Of Some Member States Is An “Infringement Of Sovereign Rights”
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has hit out at the European Union (EU) for blacklisting some member states, within the regional body. In a statement, yesterday, the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat said, the revised list, ...
Read More »Guyana’s Roadmap To Becoming A Green State
By Desmond Brown IPS Feature Writer GEORGETOWN, Guyana March 27, 2019 (IPS) — In 2008, the then-president of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, established, within the Ministry of the Presidency, the Office of Climate Change. Guyana became the first country in the ...
Read More »Senior Trinidad Police Officer On Half Million Dollar Bail
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – A senior police officer has been placed on a half-million dollar bail, after he appeared in magistrate’s court, charged with abduction, false imprisonment and three sexual offences against a ...
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