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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 4, 2019 (CMC) – Local telecommunications provider, the Guyana Telephone And Telegraph Company (GTT) introduced Guyana’s first 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile network service, yesterday. Subscribers from Georgetown to Great Diamond (East Bank of Demerara), Lusignan ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 1, 2019 (CMC) – The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says it will be maintaining the policy interest rate, offered on overnight balances from deposit-taking institutions, at 0.50 percent. It said that the decision is based on its ...

By Nalisha Adams and Busani Bafana Contributing Writers JOHANNESBURG, South Africa/BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, September 20, 2019 (IPS) — Arama Sire Camara, a fruit and vegetable seller in the province of Kindia, some 135 km from the Guinean capital of Conakry, feels ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 19, 2019 (CMC) – United Kingdom-based Tullow Oil Company and United States-based ExxonMobil, on Monday, announced the discovery of more oil in the Guyana basin. Head of the Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe, said, on Monday, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 11, 2019 (CMC) – The Guyana government, today, said the decision, by the Trinidad and Tobago-based Massy Stores, to open its second largest facility in the Caribbean, underscores the influx of foreign investments into the Caribbean Community ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, September 11, 2019 (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it is now in a better position than before, after the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) announced, last weekend, that it had approved the ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, September 4, 2019 (CMC) – The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has sought to downplay reports of its impending departure from the Caribbean, saying that such rumours have been around for more than 99 of ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Writer CANADA, August 28, 2019 — Unparalleled, even by the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, is the 2019 booming Canadian cannabis industry. June 2018 saw the Cannabis Act (C45) paving the way for the legalization of ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 20, 2019 (CMC) – A delegation from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is due to travel to the United Kingdom, as part of a business exchange, focussing on the oil and gas sector. The ...

By Laurence Ashworth Guest Writer Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, made headlines in the U.K. recently for his speech at the Trades Union Congress conference in Manchester, England. His remarks were forcefully pro-union and strongly disapproving of corporations, the ...