The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Friday, December 12, 2025.
PORT AU PRINCE – The World Food Programme (WFP) says more than a month after Hurricane Melissa slammed the Caribbean, devastated communities still require assistance.
BELMOPAN -The Belize government says it is urgently working to avoid a shut down between cane farmers and producers of the commodity even as the Sugar Industry Control Board (SICB) acknowledged that over 100,000 tons of cane were left to rot last year because there just weren’t enough workers to harvest the crop.
PORT OF SPAIN – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is crediting the presence of a controversial United States radar system on Tobago as helping in the seizure of more than TT$170 million (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) in drugs seized earlier this week.
WASHINGTON – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is urging countries in the Americas, including the Caribbean, to strengthen public investment and financial protection mechanisms, which it described as key measures for achieving universal health.
WASHINGTON – The Caribbean is living through a moment of rising geopolitical tension. As the United States intensifies pressure on the Maduro government in Venezuela, the ripples reach CARICOM shores fast. None of these countries chose this confrontation, yet each of them is forced to navigate its consequences.(A CMCFeature by Sir Ronald Sanders).
SPORTS:
WELLINGTON – Fast bowler Jacob Duffy ripped through the West Indies’ fragile batting lineup with a second consecutive five-wicket haul to bowl New Zealand to a comprehensive nine-wicket victory inside three days in the second Test here on Friday.