THE International Finance Corporation (IFC) — a member of the World Bank Group — has appointed Jamaican Judith Green as head of its operations in the English-speaking Caribbean. She will be responsible for coordinating IFC’s programme of investments and advisory services in several countries, including Belize,...
THE Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) has been given until September 27 to provide a detailed report to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) on Saturday’s islandwide blackout. A release from the OUR said that,as stipulated in the Electricity Act, 2015, the light and power...
THE Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has decided to accept the outstanding School-based Assessment (SBA) samples of students of Penwood High School in St Andrew. This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Youth and Information Senator Ruel Reid during a back-to-school press conference at the ministry’s Heroes’...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Trinidad and Tobago yesterday celebrated its 54th anniversary of political independence from Britain with the traditional military parade and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley telling citizens “we have a very bright future ahead of us”. No one, however, will this...
MOSCOW — Russia claimed Wednesday it carried out the airstrike in Syria that killed one of the Islamic State’s most senior leaders, but U.S. officials said they had no evidence to back Moscow’s account and were examining whether the militant was hit in an American...