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GEORGETOWN, Guyana May 18, 2020 (CMC) — President, David Granger, yesterday morning, proclaimed that his government stands ready to accept the final declarations of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), after the national recount of the March 2 General and Regional ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – The Dominica government says it has spent an estimated EC$22 million in direct costs, so far, in its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, even as it outlined new initiatives to assist nationals, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) announced, today, it is making available US$66.7, million in emergency loans, to seven Caribbean countries, in the first instance, to finance the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, May, 18, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, named the Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Fitzgerald Hinds, as the new Public Utilities Minister, replacing Robert Le ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – Legal Affairs Minister, Kindra Mathurine-Stewart, today, led the tributes to Magistrate, Karen Noel, who died suddenly at her home, yesterday. “It is with a sense of profound shock and sadness that I ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, May 18, 2020 – Prime Minister, Dr. Timothy, Harris, has announced that the St. Kitts and Nevis electorate will head to the polls on Friday, June 5, to choose a government to lead the nation for the ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – Police are investigating the drowning deaths of two brothers in a pond in Valencia, north east of here, yesterday. The authorities have identified the brothers as 13-year-old Junior Soogrim ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – Haiti has recorded nearly 100 cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), during the past 24 hours, as the number of cases in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country jumped to 456. The ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 15, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, has promised that there will be no job cuts in the public service, but hinted at the prospect of forced savings, as the island emerges from the lock-down, occasioned ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 15, 2020 (CMC) – The United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch, today, pushed for the US-based Carter Centre and the International Republican Institute (IRI) to be allowed into the country, to observe the recount of the ...