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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 12, 2019 (CMC) – The Chair of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Camille Robinson-Regis, says the regional institution must continue to evolve, even on the completion of its ongoing transformation, in order ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 12, 2019 (CMC) – The cash-strapped, Antigua-based, regional airline, LIAT, says despite pilots and its workers, across all its destinations, agreeing to a six percent salary cut, it is still facing a severe financial problem and may ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 8, 2019 (CMC) – The Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Matthew Langevine, says students, housewives and the unemployed are being used, by criminals and drug dealers, to launder funds on their behalf. Langevine said the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 2, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica-based Fly Jamaica Airways says it is making all staff redundant, as of last Sunday, saying the lack of planes to carry out operations has left it, without any other alternative. In ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, April 2, 2019 CMC – The Suriname-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Competition Commission (CCC) says the intended sale of Scotiabank’s assets in nine Caribbean countries, could have anti-competitive effects, in at least three CARICOM member states. “The Commission remains ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, March 29, 2019 (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government has reiterated its position, that it would not issue a vesting order to facilitate the sale of Scotia Bank operations, here, as the Parliament approved ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is reducing the policy interest rate, offered on its overnight balances, by 25 basis points, to 1.25 percent, in a move, aimed at returning and retaining the inflation ...

GEORGEROWN, Guyana, March 28, 2019 (CMC) – President, David Granger, says he is not impressed, with the statement by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and its affiliates, that “political uncertainty” is gripping the country, as it awaits a Caribbean Court ...

  By Sonia B. Dhaliwal Guest Writer Tax season is upon us, and many Canadians are flocking to their tax advisers hoping for magical tips that will help them save some of their hard-earned money. Recently I came across an ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 25, 2019 (CMC) – The Director of Guyana’s Energy Department, Dr. Mark Bynoe, says Guyana has, so far, benefitted from more than GUY$15.6 billion from the oil and gas sector. Bynoe said the funds received so far, ...