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 ...
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Jamaica Developing Long Term Solutions For Coffee Industry
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 ...
Read More »Career Guyanese Diplomat Dr. Mohammed Ishmael Dead
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 ...
Read More »Barbados’ Central Bank Apologies Over Late Interest Payments
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 ...
Read More »Bank Of Jamaica Says Billions Of Dollars Were In Circulation Last Month
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 ...
Read More »Third Earthquake Rattles Caribbean Islands In A Day
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 ...
Read More »Grenada Government Says It Is Committed To Finding Solution To Pension Negotiations With Public Sector
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 ...
Read More »Dominican Opposition Legislator Calls For Review Of 1978 Constitution, With Reference To Dual Citizenship
ROSEAU, Dominica, January 5, 2019 (CMC) – An opposition legislator says Dominica should decide whether a person with dual citizenship can contest elections in the country. “It is only fair and proper that we look at our Constitution and make ...
Read More »Jamaica Prime Minister And Opposition Leader Hold Private Meeting; Agree To Crime Talks
KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 5, 2019 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, and leader of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP), Dr. Peter Phillips, have agreed to meet, on Monday, with stakeholders to discuss topics, related to crime and security. ...
Read More »Guyana Government Files Supreme Court Application To Declare Motion Of No Confidence Invalid
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 5, 2018 (CMC) – Yesterday, Senior Counsel Rex McKay and a team of high-powered lawyers — on behalf of the coalition government — filed an application in the Supreme Court, seeking to invalidate the results of the ...
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