The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Wednesday, October 8, 2025.
BELMOPAN – Belizeans residing on the island of Caye Caulker are on Wednesday voting to decide whether marijuana should be legalised for production and sale three years after the process had been shelved.
PARAMARIBO – Suriname is seeking to become the first country in the world to issue Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs), a new mechanism within the Paris Climate Agreement, similar to carbon credits and is looking to the German-based Deutsche Bank for assistance.
PORT OF SPAIN – Prime Minister Kamla Persad says she remains confident that the courts will ‘deliver a just result’ with respect to her Housing Minister, Dr. David Lee, who along with a businessman, had been taken into custody by police on Tuesday.
GEORGETOWN – The Guyana government has signalled its preparedness to extradite the leader of the recently formed We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party, Azruddin Mohamed, and his father, Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed, who are wanted in the United States on several fraud related charges.
KINGSTON – Health Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton says he welcomes the conclusion of a report by the Integrity Commission(IC) even as he expressed ‘regret’ at ‘any hurt or reputational damage that may have resulted from the prolonged public scrutiny.
SPORTS:
NEW DELHI – West Indies head coach Daren Sammy is looking forward to a much-improved showing from his side when they take on India in the second and final Test match here on Friday.