T&T Agricultural produce to be available on Caribbean market

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Trinidad Guardian) – Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj said more of T&T’s agricultural produce may soon be available in Caribbean market. At the re-commissioning of the Orange Valley Wholesale Fish Market in Couva yesterday, Maharaj said Namdevco will s...
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THA must forge new ties with gov’t

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The rout of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) in Monday’s elections for the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) settles many questions. There is no doubt now where the sentiments of the people of Tobago lie. The rejection of Ashworth Jack, ousted from the Mason H...
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Opposition PNM sweeps THA polls

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) has won a landslide victory in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), with preliminary results showing that the party has won all 12 seats. Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, who, along with senior members ...
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Cadiz in Bahamas for regional airlift talks

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Minister of Tourism Stephen Cadiz is in the Bahamas for the Caribbean Travel Marketplace and to convene with the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Aviation Committee and discuss opportunities for increase of airlift to the region. The minister, upon landing at the Lyndo...
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‘TCL can’t keep raising prices’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) cannot just keep raising prices every year, ANSA McAL's chief operating officer Gerry Brooks has said. Brooks told reporters on Friday at the ANSA Coatings Award ceremony, Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) hotel, Port of Spain that what the company nee...
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PM says she has no quarrel with Integrity Commission

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she has “no quarrel” with the Integrity Commission after it wrote President George Maxwell Richards seeking its support following open criticism from the head of the coalition government in Trinidad and Tobag...
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EU continues to fund Caribbean projects

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Despite the economic difficulties in the Eurozone area, the European Union (EU) will continue to fund projects in the Caribbean, Christian Leffler, Director of Latin America Section in the European External Action Service said yesterday. “We will continue to co-opera...
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Tobagonians vote for new THA

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – Voters have started casting their ballots for a new Tobago House of Assembly (THA) following a four week intensive campaign that included Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and senior members of her coalition People’s Partnership government. The senior Cabi...
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Keeping it free and fair

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - After a bruising campaign conducted under a canopy of allegations, counter-allegations and legal threats, Tobagonians go to the polls this morning to elect the leaders of the Tobago House of Assembly for the next term. As brutal as this THA election campaign has been, the ...
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