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WASHINGTON, DC January 3, 2020 (CMC) – Grenada’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Yolande Yvonne Smith, has assumed the Chair of the OAS’s Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI). “My delegation is committed to continuing the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The UK-based company, Tullow Oil, revealed, yesterday, that it has discovered a higher quality of crude oil, offshore Guyana, in the Carapa-1 well, within the Kanuku licence. According to the company, while the ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, has dismissed a threat of a lawsuit, by the Chairman of the Antigua and Barbuda True Labour Party (ABTLP), Vere Bird 111, insisting that the statements ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Readers, forgive me if I fail to reflect any change in my approach now that 2020 has arrived. In fact, in the name of progress and enlightenment, I have resolved to be even more brutally ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says despite economic shocks in the third quarter of last year, the local economy has shown signs of expansion. Finance and Public Service Minister, Dr. Nigel Clarke, says the Statistical ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The national flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been installed at the United Nations Security Council, as the multi-island country begins its historic, two-year term as a non-permanent member. ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The former Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, who helped to negotiate the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, Giza Gaspar Martins, is warning the Caribbean that climate change is “real”, and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says during the last five work-days of December, last year, it recorded net currency issue of J$2.9 billion to financial institutions, including commercial banks, building societies and cambios. ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Ministry of Education has announced that a mandatory hour of prayer will be introduced, on the first day of school, in the new school year. In a statement, yesterday, the Ministry ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Barbados Defence Force (DDF) says, in a statement, that it wants to reassure the public that its members are not above the law of the land, and that it is “committed to ...