ONTARIO, Canada Monday, January 6, 2020 — The first batch of 2020 Jamaican farm-workers departed their homeland, and arrived in Canada, last Friday. A total of 228 workers will be arriving, between January 3 and today, to take up employment opportunities ...
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Mexican Company Pledges To Invest Significantly In Norman Manley Airport Development
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Monday, January 6, 2020 (CMC) –Mexico-based Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico (GAP), which formally took over the management of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) last October, through its local subsidiary, PAC Kingston Airport Limited (PACKAL), says the investment ...
Read More »Former Barbados Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, Is New LIAT Chairman
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda; Monday, January 6, 2020 (CMC) – The head of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA), Captain Patterson Thompson, has welcomed the appointment of former Barbados Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, as the new Chairman of ...
Read More »Guyana’s Main Opposition Party Names Prime Ministerial Candidate For March 2 Elections
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Monday, January 6, 2020 (CMC) – The main opposition, People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), has named retired Brigadier, Mark A. Phillips, as its Prime Ministerial Candidate for the March 2 regional and general election. Late last month, the party ...
Read More »Trinidad’s National Security Ministry To Implement Glass Bottle Ban For Carnival 2020
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Monday, January 6, 2020 (CMC) – The Ministry of National Security says that it will be implementing a ban on glass bottles, during the upcoming Carnival season. During a recent meeting, officials from the ...
Read More »Guyana’s Ruling Coalition Government Launches Campaign For Re-Election
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Saturday, January 4, 2020 (CMC) – The ruling coalition — A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) — government, last Friday night, launched its re-election campaign, with President, David Granger, urging supporters to ...
Read More »New Fines For Antiguans and Barbudans Caught Driving While Using Cell Phones
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, Saturday, January 4, 2020 (CMC) – Motorists in Antigua and Barbuda, who have been “observed and caught”, by police, using a cell phone while driving, will have to pay a fine of EC$500 immediately, the ...
Read More »Jamaica’s Police Commissioner Intervenes, Successfully, In Row Between Police Officers
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Saturday, January 4, 2020 (CMC) – Jamaican police officers say they have reached an agreement to settle their differences, after Police Commissioner, Major General Antony Anderson, yesterday, intervened to end the row between them. A statement from the ...
Read More »Grenada Assumes Chair Of Organisation Of American States’ CIDI
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 ...
Read More »Tullow Oil Reveals Discovery Of Higher Quality Crude Oil Offshore Guyana
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 ...
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