‘Issue may require CARICOM mediation’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran yesterday said CARICOM should use its goodwill to bring about a resolution to the controversy with respect to relations between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Last week the country’s Constitutional Court ruled the children...
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Bird Flu Alert! - Six cases confirmed

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The Health Ministry today issued a statement advising that six cases of influenza A/H1N1, common know as bird flu, have been confirmed locally. The Ministry is advising citizens to take health precautions. The following is the statement from the Ministry of Health - The ...
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BIRD FLU IS HERE

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Bird flu has come to T&T. Contacted last night, Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan confirmed there are three cases of the H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as bird flu, in this country. Khan said there was no need for panic and assured that the ministry and relevant authori...
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Police probe whether murders linked to Local Government poll

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police are investigating the murder of two men, including a close relative of a candidate contesting the October 21 Local Government election on a ticket of the coalition People’s Partnership administration. Police Public Information Officer, Acting Inspec...
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Regional governance institute launches today

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute (CCGI) will be celebrating its formal launch today from 5 pm–8 pm at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad. The CCGI is a non-profit membership- based organisation dedicated to strengthening principles of good corporate governance acr...
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Food import bill down two per cent

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Agricultural production is up and an additional 4000 acres will be put into cultivation next year, Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj has announced. Speaking at the second ceremonial harvest launch of the Caroni Green Initiative at Orange Valley, Couva, Maharaj said th...
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Sparrow responding well

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Slinger Francisco, aka the Mighty Sparrow, continues to do well. According to a media release from his wife, Margaret Francisco, “I am happy to report that the Mighty Sparrow is responsive, resting comfortably and is slowly progressing to what we trust will be a sati...
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Trinidadian scholar killed in Kenya buried in his homeland

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – 31-year-old Ravindra Ramrattan was cremated here on Tuesday, more than a week after he was murdered during the attack on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Niarobi by Shabab militants. At least 68 other people were killed during the attack. President Anthony Carmona ...
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Caribbean warned of debt trap

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Jamaican writer Rachel Manley has called on Caribbean governments and Central Banks to engage in visionary economic thinking to benefit the region. She was at the time delivering the feature address at the 27th Dr Eric Williams Memorial Lecture, at Central Bank auditorium,...
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CAL manager suspended

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - State carrier Caribbean Airlines has suspended one of its managers as an investigation continues into what has been described as a million-dollar fraud involving the use of bogus credit cards which has already cost CAL more than $12 million in losses. Sources familiar with...
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