Trinidad and Tobago
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CSA chief: Corruption impeding regional shipping
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – President of the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA ) Grantley Stephenson says corruption in international trade is impeding growth of the region’s maritime business. Speaking at Monday’s opening of the 12th Caribbean Shipping Executives Conference in Freeport, Bahamas, Stephenson said: “The association has previously addressed issues related to smuggling of narcotics and through earlier contacts with…
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Marathon debate on no-confidence motion Monday
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad- Next Monday’s debate on the Opposition’s no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister will be a marathon one, lasting into Tuesday, Communication Minister Jamal Mohammed said yesterday. Speaking at yesterday’s post-Cabinet media briefing, Mohammed said all Government MPs would speak and were prepared to debate into Wednesday if necessary. The motion was filed by Opposition Leader Keith…
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2030: Shared prosperity is possible in our region
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The World Bank, under the leadership of President Jim Yong Kim, has focused attention on the ambitious and demanding work to eliminate extreme poverty in the world’s population by 2030 and to increase the income of the poorest 40 per cent in order to promote shared prosperity. It may sound bold, but it is possible…
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EU supporting regional food security project
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The European Union is providing an Euro 8.6 million (One Euro = US$1.29) grant to support a project to improve Caribbean food security in the context of climate change. The project is being conducted in Belize, Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago and is being organized by the Caribbean Agricultural Research…
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CAL’s current situation clearly unsustainable
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Is it unrealistic for T&T to continue to have a national airline? Or is the issue one of incompetent and corrupt management at the national airline? Can Caricom, as a group of struggling economies, continue to have half a dozen national airlines, all of them losing hundreds of millions of dollars annually? In the instance…
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CAL not in crisis, says chairman
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Caribbean Airlines (CAL) board has directed that its acting chief executive Robert Corbie provide a report on why the company has to potentially write off $200 million in cargo revenue and credit card fraud. Chairman Rabindra Moonan, in a telephone interview yesterday, observed that those losses are the responsibility of the company’s management. He…
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Caribbean airline integration: A call to action
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – In his book, Re-engineering Management, James Champy states: The results are in: Re-engineering works—up to a point. The obstacle is management. The only way we’re going to deliver on the full promise of re-engineering is to start re-engineering management. The problem is, current Caribbean leaders will not acknowledge that leadership models across the Caribbean are…
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Regional transport ministers to discuss transport woes
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ministers of transport will meet in St. Vincent and the Grenadines later this month and are likely to make recommendations that will go before regional leaders at their annual summit in Trinidad and Tobago in July on the vexing question of air and maritime transportation in the Caribbean. CARICOM Secretary General…
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Regional countries adopt new strategies to deal with changing global environment
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Foreign Ministers ended a two-day meeting here on Wednesday night agreeing on a number of new initiatives to give the Caribbean a greater role in global economic and political situations. Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran, who chaired the 16th meeting of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community…
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