The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Monday, July 27, 2026.
GEORGETOWN – A five-day meeting of the Caribbean Organisation of Tax Administrators (COTA) bean here on Monday with regional tax administrations being urged to embrace the technological and digital developments including artificial intelligence (AI) so as to improve their functions.
GEORGETOWN – President Irfaan Ali Monday announced the establishment of a national body to coordinate, mobilise, and foster the necessary work of healing as Guyana remains ‘in the shadow of that dark hour’ following the tragedy involving the MV Barima when the sea claimed the lives of so many nationals.
CASTRIES – The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has praised Cuba for maintaining its relationship with the sub-regional grouping despite the ‘weight’ of a trade and economic embargo imposed on the Caribbean country by the United States dating back to 1962.
BRIDGETOWN – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it is providing a US$100,000 grant to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Private Sector Organization Inc. (CPSO) to support a study that will assess the feasibility and inform the design of a regional stock exchange.
PARAMARIBO – President Jennifer Simons has returned from a four-day visit to the United Kingdom optimistic of greater international involvement in the oil and gas sector in Suriname.
SPORTS:
PORT OF SPAIN – Third day of the first test match between West Indies and Pakistan at the Brian Lara Stadium at Toruba.