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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 7, 2019 (CMC) – Guyana announced, yesterday, that the US-based oil giant, ExxonMobil, had made two additional discoveries of oil, offshore Guyana, building on the previously-announced estimated recoverable resource of more than five billion oil-equivalent barrels on ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 4, 2019 (CMC) – The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) says it has sold US$50 million to authorised dealers and cambios in a “flash sale auction”, over the past two weeks, aimed at offsetting the effects of excessive ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, February 4, 2019 (CMC) – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government has acknowledged owing an estimated EC$33 million for lands acquired at Argyle, for the construction of the Argyle International Airport, which opened ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 29, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it will, in the coming months, be looking at privatising a number of assets under its portfolio. Speaking at the official opening of the 120-room S Hotel in Montego ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 24, 2019 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, is urging Jamaicans to acquire shares in public companies, listed on the island’s stock exchange. “I am encouraging Jamaicans to buy shares in these public companies, when they are ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – Canadian gold-mining company, Guyana Goldfields Inc., has appointed Former United States Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway, as its Senior Vice President in charge of Strategy and Corporate Affairs. The company’s only operating mine ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, December 29, (CMC) – The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) says that domestic growth momentum appeared to have slackened in the third quarter of 2018, while inflation remained very low. “Domestically, after ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 22, 2018 (CMC) – A High Court judge has awarded Fly Jamaica Limited US$4.2 million in damages, for breach of contract against ADS Global Limited, the company that operated the airline’s call centre, from 2012 to 2014. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 18, 2018 (CMC) – Jamaica-based Sandals Resorts has categorically denied allegations that it is covering up allegations of sexual assault on two American female guests, insisting that it stands ready to “vigorously defend itself in court”. In ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, December 13, 2018 (CMC) – The Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) announced, yesterday, the dismissal of 51 of its employees, as the head of the Communications Workers Union (CWU), Clyde Elder, said ...