Government sets aside $1 billion for health infrastructure upkeep in midweek bulletin

On Wednesday 13 May 2026, a headline-style bulletin opened with a fiscal move from the Government: one billion dollars is being placed into a maintenance fund dedicated to health infrastructure, underscoring upkeep spending alongside new capital work.

The economics desk followed with its habitual scan of trading floors and indicators, rounding out the segment with additional business pointers that the short clip did not spell out in detail.

Across the region, the rundown also listed material tied to CARICOM membership, treating the item as one line among several slated for deeper coverage in the full newscast rather than as a stand-alone explainer here.

Sport shifted to the schoolboy programme, where Calabar High School has installed Kemar Ricketts as head football coach. The change is being pitched internally as a multi-year rebuilding effort aimed at steady improvement instead of a one-season spike.

Taken together, the package offered listeners a rapid sweep of public finance, markets, Caribbean governance and campus athletics before moving on to other stories in the wider broadcast day.