Trinidad and Tobago

  • Tourists rebooking early for next visit – Tobago hoteliers pleased with new trend

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago – Tobago hoteliers are reporting a new trend among international visitors—many are booking their next visit while still on holiday on the island. “There has been a pleasing trend among international markets (that we have noticed) this Christmas. People who are here are rebooking for 10, 12 to 14 months down the road. And…

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  • Constituents thank God for Manning

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former prime minister Patrick Manning stood for more than an hour yesterday as members of his San Fernando East Constituency Office held a special thanksgiving ceremony for him. Manning, who spent Thursday night at the San Fernando General Hospital after suffering another seizure, walked into the National Academy for Performing Arts’ (Napa) south campus at…

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  • Duprey, Monteil refuse to testify as Clico Commission of Enquiry begins tomorrow

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – When the Eleventh Evidence Hearing of the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of CL Financial and the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) begins tomorrow morning at the Winsure Building, Richmond Street, Port-of-Spain, two major players in Clico and the State’s 2009 $20 billion bailout will not be among the witnesses. Hearings are scheduled to continue…

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  • Something’s stirring out there…

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Last month it was Tobago. Last week it was the whitewash defeat of the Tillman Thomas government in Grenada, then the narrow electoral victory of the government in Barbados. That ferment of the Caribbean people may be enough for observers to sight a trend—one that should be disquieting for other regional governments. Every Caribbean politician…

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  • Free movement in CCJ spotlight

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The judgment in a case now proceeding through the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) could prove to be a landmark in the movement of West Indians through each other's countries. Shanique Myrie, a Jamaican, alleges that on March 14, 2011 (then 22 years old), she was originally allowed entry into Barbados at Grantley Adams International…

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  • Dean: T&T energy export demand slashed

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – New discoveries in alternative sources of energy by developed countries such as the United States and Australia has slashed export demands from developing countries like T&T, which has this commodity in large supply. But Gordon Deane, chairman of energy company Atlantic says, however, that for the global energy business the future appears bright. He said…

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  • Former PM collapses at constituency office

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former prime minister Patrick Manning was rushed to hospital on Thursday after he collapsed at his constituency office. Manning, 66, who suffered a stroke in January last year, was “partly paralysed” from what his office said had been a “minor stroke”. He was flown to the United States for further medical treatment and has…

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  • Hoteliers: More than $200m lost

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THE $200 million loss in tourism revenue that Trinidad and Tobago suffers annually due to crime is a “conservative estimate”, industry experts said yesterday. “I am absolutely convinced it is costing the country a huge amount of money. I think $200 million is conservative because that is just lost opportunity through fears of crime, but…

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  • Time for CARICOM rep to head OAS

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – I have read with great alarm and significant disappointment an article published on Wednesday in the Stabroek News of Guyana and carried on the internet with the headline Suriname Will Not Support Ramdin for OAS Post. Apparently, the Suriname Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin has confirmed that his Government will neither nominate nor support the…

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  • Lip-service mainly for eating local

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Practical obstacles in the way of growing more and consuming more local produce have been elaborately acknowledged by Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj. And the ministry's solution: a year-long advertising campaign to persuade citizens to eat local. Such a campaign must necessarily be based on assumptions that ordinary people do not know what they like…

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