A Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate cooperation on scientific, technical and policy aspects of energy efficiency and clean energy technologies through the exchange of ideas and information was signed between Trinidad and Tobago and the United States Department of Energy.
RTC PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Does the judgment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the Shanique Myrie case open the door for someone to have the court rule that governments of Caricom are violating the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC) and should therefore be forced to end their continuing resistance to having the CCJ replace the British Privy Council as their final court of appeal? It is a question I shall return to later in this column.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE ripple effects of the landmark ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case of the Jamaican Shanique Myrie vs the Barbados government, should shake the leaders of Caricom out of their Rip van Winkle-like slumber to honour their commitment to unhindered free intra-regional movement of citizens of the regional community.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Promises, promises and more promises. This is what angry farmers said they been receiving over the years from the Government. Various farming associations falling under the umbrella of the National Food Crop Farmers Association (NFFA) protested yesterday at the Norris Deonarine Wholesale Market, Macoya. At the protest, they held placards, banners and threw pumpkins and vegetables.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - From her busy schedule of travel and other obligations, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar must make time for an ugly crisis engulfing two member states of Cariforum, which shares membership with Caricom, of which she also serves as chairman. The crisis has been triggered by a Dominican Republic constitutional court ruling that threatens a devastatingly disparate impact on many thousands of people in that republic, descended from Haitian immigrants.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Caricom Secretary General came to town last week and managed to deliver a lecture distinguished mainly by its silence on two of the most explosive issues in the Caribbean.
Within 24 hours of his lecture, one of them broke wide open. The Caribbean Court of Justice’s decision delivered last Friday in Port of Spain in the Shanique Myrie case has made integration more real to Caribbean people than all the decades of communiqués and Heads of Government meetings put together.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - As a committed proponent of regional integration we, too, welcome the ruling delivered on Friday by the Caribbean Court of Justice in the Shanique Myrie case.
The ruling by Sir Dennis Byron and his panel effectively sends a message to all Immigration authorities throughout the Caricom region that the days of arbitrary denial of access to Caricom nationals are at an end.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Trinidad and Tobago and Panama on Thursday signed a Partial Scope Trade Agreement on Thursday which help boost the economies of both countries.
The Partial Scope Trade Agreement, provides the preferential treatment that exporters from Trinidad and Tobago will enjoy in the Panamanian market and the reciprocal preferential treatment that Panamanian exporters will receive in the Trinidad and Tobago market.
FLU PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Two persons who died after exhibiting influenza H1N1 symptoms may possibly be among the six confirmed cases of the swine flu virus, Minister of Health Dr Fuad Khan said yesterday.
Speaking at a media conference at the Ministry of Health, Park Street, Port of Spain, Khan who called on citizens not to panic said the six cases of the H1N1 influenza A virus were confirmed in three patients from San Fernando General Hospital, one from Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and two patients from an unknown area.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Following confirmation late Wednesday by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (Carpha) of six local cases of Influenza A/H1N1, better known as swine flu, the first response from Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan was that such cases were “nothing new” for T&T. The minister’s biggest concern was avoiding “overreaction and over-treatment,” which he said occurred in 2009 when swine flu cases first emerged in this country.