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T&T, Guatemala negotiate Partial Scope Agreement

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Senior government officials are in the final leg of negotiations with Guatemalan officials to sign off on a Partial Scope Agreement. The T&T delegation includes senior officials of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment; the Customs and Excise Division of the Ministry of Finance and the Economy, Solicitor General Department, Ministry of Food Production, exporTT, Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association and Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

New initiatives to spur air links development in the Caribbean

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Aviation officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and South America will meet here in May to discuss initiatives aimed at developing air links between the regions, Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran has said.
Addressing the opening of the 14th annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development (STC-14) here on Monday night, Dookeran, said the meeting would seek to consolidate some of the measures proposed in the San Juan Accord for the regional air transport sector that had been agreed upon five years ago.

Court stays Clico judgment

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Court of Appeal yesterday granted a stay stopping the decision of a High Court judgment which ordered that almost 250 Clico policyholders be repaid their full investments in the failed insurance giant. The stay was granted by Appeal Court judge Alice Yorke Soo Hon during a chamber court hearing at the Hall of Justice, Port-of-Spain. Soo Hon decided to grant the stay after she heard the State’s submissions on the merits of the appeal.

International tourism officials warns of excessive taxes

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A senior international tourism official has warned that increased taxes on air transportation and tourism will damage economies and reduce travel to destinations such as the Caribbean.
Addressing the 24th annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development (STC-14) here on Monday night, Carlos Vogeler, the regional director for the Americas within the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), said taxes on tourism are an all too common occurrence.

Howai: CAL not another BWIA

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Caribbean Airlines (CAL) will not be filing for bankruptcy and is not another BWIA in the making, Finance Minister Larry Howai assured yesterday. “There is no such thought at this stage. The thing is the airline industry is a very difficult industry to manage. Throughout the world we have had a number of different airlines  going into Chapter 11,” he told reporters yesterday after the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers' Association’s (TTMA)  Annual General Meeting at the Hyatt Regency , Port-of-Spain.

Trinidad minister wants greater regional unity in selling Caribbean

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago is calling for a united approach towards developing the region’s tourism industry as it prepares to host the 14th Sustainable Tourism Conference (STC) here on Monday.
The three day event is being held under the theme “Keeping the right balance: Enhancing destination sustainability through products, partnerships, profitability”.
Host Tourism Minister Stephen Cadiz told reporters that a collective approach was the only way the region can become the number one “warm-weather destination” in the world.

Good going, CCJ

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The cross-Caribbean hearings of the Shanique Myrie case have given the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) much-needed and well-deserved prominence as a forum where the average Caricom citizen can seek legal protection and redress. While the CCJ has had some impact on the life of the region, none of the cases that have come before it has excited the public imagination as much as the discrimination and sexual assault case of Shanique Myrie vs Barbados.

Help small and vulnerable economies

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday used an international forum to issue a call for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to increase their aid to small and vulnerable economies. Persad-Bissessar was speaking at the United Nations General Assembly Thematic debate “The UN and Global Economic Governance” in New York.

Remarks by Ms. Desiree Field-Ridley, Officer-in-Charge, Trade and Economic Integration, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat on the occasion of The Opening Ceremony Forty-First Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development

On behalf of the Secretary-General of Caribbean Community, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Forty-First Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development on Energy being held here in Trinidad and Tobago.  The Secretary General sincerely regrets that he could not be here at this so important COTED Energy Meeting.
Ladies and Gentlemen,

T&T to open embassy in China

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Within a month T&T will open its embassy in Bejing, China, more than 30 years after China established its embassy here in T&T. On June 20, 1974 China established diplomatic relations with T&T and in April of 1975 the embassy was established. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran sees no issue in the delay in reciprocating. “It is all a matter of timing,” he said.

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