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CAL staff angry as top executive orders US$20,000 trip for 19 ‘friends’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Vice-chairman of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) Mohan Jaikaran is proving the state enterprise is not cash-strapped, as he has requested 19 complimentary airline tickets for a Mother’s Day concert scheduled for New York City and Toronto this weekend, of which he is a co-promoter. The directive caused raised eyebrows among management, as two weeks ago there were reports that the national carrier had once again turned to the Government for funding, to the tune of $100 million.

Diplomatology: We’re not ready

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last Friday, Malay Mishra, India’s High Commissioner to T&T, arrived from Grenada on Liat flight 727. No immigration forms were issued on the flight, and everyone, flight crew included, had to fill out the required forms on entry at the Piarco Terminal. What happened after Mr Mishra entered the building remains almost perfectly inexplicable. The diplomat went to the appropriate queue reserved for such officials, the first indicator that he was not a casual passenger on the flight.

Trinidad and Tobago gives assurances to Grenada

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada said Tuesday it is prepared to take its concerns to a “higher body” if Trinidad and Tobago does not live up to its commitment to resolve the restriction imposed on the import of honey from t6he neighbouring Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. The issue was discussed at the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) meeting in Guyana last week where Grenada made a submission under the heading “Confiscation of Honey exported to Trinidad and Tobago”. According to Dr.

Complaints about CARICOM produce at Macoya market

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Farmers operating out of Norris Deonarine Wholesale Market in Macoya have complained that too much space is being inhabited by those selling produce from outside the country. Terrence Haywood, head of the National Foodcrop Farmers Association (NFFA), said yesterday goods bought on the open CARICOM market are flooding the Macoya facility and local farmers are now competing for limited space, as well as having to match the prices of the regional goods.

Central Bank maintains 2.5 per cent economic growth for Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Less than 24 hours after the Washington-base International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Caribbean countries would experience economic growth of just over one per cent this year, the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) is maintaining that the oil rich twin island republic will record economic growth of 2.5 per cent in 2013.

PM hints that Warner may not be UNC candidate for by-election

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has indicated that her former national security minister Austin “Jack” Warner is not an automatic choice of the ruling United National Congress (UNC) to contest the parliamentary seat he vacated in the wake of a damning report of his activities as an international football executive.

Trinidad to host Canada-CARICOM business meeting

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will host a meeting of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Canadian public and private sector officials to share best practices, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has announced.

TRINIDAD-MEDIA-Government moves to repeal criminal libel legislation

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday said it would move to amend the existing libel and defamation legislation so as to ensure that journalists were not jailed “for the malicious publication of any defamatory libel.” Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, speaking at a news conference following talks with a delegation from the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) and the Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA), said she would take a note to Cabinet on Thursday t

Call for better tsunami warning systems

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In the Caribbean and western mid-Atlantic, tens of thousands of lives are at risk and millions of dollars are at stake if a tsunami strikes and therefore all communities must implement more efficient warning systems. So says Christa von Hillebrandt Andrade, manager of the US national weather service Caribbean tsunami warning programme, who spoke yesterday at the eighth session of the Inter-Governmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) at Capital Plaza, Port-of-Spain.

‘Be ready for natural disasters’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Citizens must make themselves ready to deal with disasters and not depend on the Government, head of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM), Dr Stephen Ramroop, said yesterday.
Ramroop was speaking at the eighth session of the Inter-Governmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean, at Capital Plaza in Port of Spain.

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