GECOM yields to APNU+AFC request for more info on absent voters to be sent for verification
Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Wednesday told Election Commissioners that she has handed over more names of persons who the opposition A Partnership…
28 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Barbados
Twenty-eight people, 13 males and 15 females, tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, September 27, from the 362 tests conducted by laboratories across the island. The cases comprised eight persons…
The right to die
Representatives of the medical and Christian community are recommending a national consultation on the merits and demerits of legalising assisted suicide. That consensus emerged on Monday night during another Man Talk discussion…
Guyana’s Dr Irfaan Ali giving CWI cricket tourism schooling
Caribbean cricket is now being graced with the involvement of two Presidents both with the common background of having served as Tourism Ministers for their respective countries, President Dr Irfaan…
T&T Supermarkets, WITCO concerned over Tobacco Law
Some supermarkets may stop selling cigarettes at their establishments after a law prohibiting how tobacco products are displayed is being enforced after many years. Cigarette dispensers advertising each brand available…
Expect more hardship in T&T warns economist
He giveth and he taketh away. And in an almost “Biblical sense” this is what Finance Minister Colm Imbert did, said economist Dr Marlene Attzs as she examined the 2022/2023…
Cuba begins to turn on lights after Ian blacks out island
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuban officials said they had begun to restore some power Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out electricity to the entire island, while devastating some of the…
Jamaica’s Education ministry urges students to conform to school rules regarding uniforms and tells principals to stop locking them out for violations
EDUCATION Minister Fayval Williams has declared that she has told principals repeatedly not to prevent children from entering schools when they fail to wear the correct uniforms. There have been…
Barbados Gov’t welcomes new SandP ratings
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Barbados Government has welcomed the latest ratings given to the island by the US-based rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) that kept the kept Barbados'…
Economists expect Germany to enter recession in 2023
Leading economic institutes in Germany predict the economy will go into recession next year. Inflation and soaring energy prices are among the key contributors A forecast by a leading group…
