BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 24, 2019 (CMC) – Barbados has announced plans to establish a medicinal cannabis industry project implementation unit, tasked with establishing the administrative framework for the timely implementation of the project. Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, who delivered her ...
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Guyana President Completes First Phase Of Medical Cancer Treatment In Cuba
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 24, 2019 (CMC) – President, David Granger, has completed the first phase of his medical treatment in Cuba and is steadily improving. This was disclosed by Guyana’s Ambassador to Cuba, Halim Majeed, in a statement, yesterday. Granger, ...
Read More »St. Vincent Prime Minister Describes Meeting Between US President And Select Group Of Caribbean Leaders As “Troubling”
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 24, 2019 (CMC) – The Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, has described the recent meeting, last Friday, between United States President, Donald Trump, and a select group of four Caribbean leaders, ...
Read More »Canada Facilitates Meeting Between CARICOM And Venezuela’s Opposition Leader
By Peter Richards CMC Correspondent BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 24, 2019 (CMC) – Canada facilitated a meeting, between Caribbean Community (CARICOM) officials and foreign ministers and Venezuela’s Opposition Leader, Juan Guaidó, and his delegation, yesterday, in Barbados. A brief statement, issued ...
Read More »Guyana Parliament To Meet Following Court Of Appeal Ruling
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 24, 2019 (CMC) – The Guyana government says Parliament will soon meet, to conduct the affairs of the country, even as Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, said the main opposition People’s Progressive Party-Civic (PPP-C) will appeal the country’s ...
Read More »Jamaica Government Defends Closure Of Embassy In Venezuela
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 24, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says the decision to shut down its embassy in Venezuela should not be viewed as a “break down in diplomatic relations”, and that the decision was “not influenced by political ...
Read More »Guyana’s Attorney General Welcomes Appeal Court Ruling; Says Government Is Legal
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 24, 2019 (CMC) – Attorney General, Basil Williams, on Friday, welcomed the Court of Appeal ruling that the motion of no confidence, passed in the Guyana National Assembly on December 21, last year, was invalid; even as ...
Read More »Jamaica Prime Minister Describes Meeting With US President As “Promising”
MIAMI, Florida March 22, 2019 (CMC) – United States President, Donald Trump, held talks, today, with the leaders of five Caribbean islands, with Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, describing the meeting as “promising”. Trump, who met with the leaders of ...
Read More »Guyana’s Court Of Appeal Rules No Confidence Motion Not Valid
GEORGEOWN, Guyana, March 22, 2019 (CMC) – The Court of Appeal ruled, this afternoon, that the motion of no confidence, passed by the National Assembly in December, last year, and resulting in the downfall of the coalition government of President ...
Read More »Caribbean Development Bank Forecasts Guyana On Verge Of Sharp Economic Growth; But Political Uncertainty May Dampen Prediction
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 22, 2019 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says Guyana is on the verge of a sharp increase in economic growth, but immediate prospects partly depend on ending political uncertainty. It said that the coalition ...
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