by Harry Johnsonn //eturbonews.com When government officials and professionals from the Caribbean’s Tourism and Travel Industry converge in Manhattan, New York for Caribbean Week 2023, they can look forward to enjoying Lagniappe – A Culinary Cultural Experience of Trinidad, which will be hosted by Tourism Trinidad Limited at Midtown Loft and Terrace in Manhattan, from 7pm […]
By Jamaicans.com Kes launched IZWE (pronounced “Is We”) in 2021 as a series of five, socially-distanced concerts during what would have been that year’s Carnival season. The limited-capacity shows were the first sanctioned live music events held in Trinidad & Tobago after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which began one year earlier, and just […]
Fort Lauderdale, USA – November 21, 2016: A Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 lands at the Fort Lauderdale International A FL. Caribbean Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Trinidad and Tobago. (Shutterstock) The Caribbean Airlines is set to increase their flight schedule to daily service between Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA), Grenada and Piarco International, […]
By Linda Nwoke Fossil fuel price volatility has rattled global energy markets. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states are particularly vulnerable, importing more than 85 percent of their energy. This causes consumers in CARICOM countries to pay almost double the average price for electricity than those in the United States. CARICOM houses a mixture of hydrocarbon […]
On Wednesday, August 31, the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago celebrated its Diamond Jubilee of Independence. Here is the message from T&T’s Prime Minister, Hon. Dr Keith Rowley: Trinidad and Tobago a nation at 60! Look across the globe, let’s place ourselves on the world canvas, Trinidad and Tobago is “a baby” still, yet it […]
Photo Credit: PP/IQ Inc. Commissioner Manuel Castro, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs: Yes. Thank you, Hazra and thank you to the Bowling Green Association for this important partnership. To be able to celebrate and uplift our immigrant communities because immigrants are just as important to the city’s economy as any industry represented in Wall Street. So […]
Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre has attended the Agri-Investment Forum and Expo II in Port of Spain, Trinidad. It ended yesterday. The event was convened under the theme “Transforming Agriculture through Innovation and Investment” and sought to build on the discussions, initiatives, and outcomes from the first Agri-Investment Forum and Expo held in May 2022 […]
The founder of Algas Organics, the Caribbean’s first indigenous agriculture biotech firm has been celebrated at the just ended Agri-Investment Forum and Expo II in Trinidad and Tobago. Johanan Dujon’s Algas Organics converts the invasive sargassum seaweed into fungicides, pesticides, and crop fertilizers. Dujon was singled out by Gervase Warner, the Chairman of the Caribbean […]
TV6 News in Trinidad and Tobago is reporting on talks for a regional ferry service between Tobago and Grenada. This is being explored ahead of carnival in Tobago scheduled for October. But TV6 reports that Trinidad and Tobago’s Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan says he’s had no conversation with the Tobago House of Assembly […]
By Manuel Holguin Hon. Stuart Young, the Minister of Energy for the twin-republic of Trinidad and Tobago, spoke to CNN about how the southernmost island country in the Caribbean could contribute to the ongoing world crisis of energy during the ongoing Russia and Ukraine conflict. Speaking with Richard Quest, Young sounded self-assured and willing to […]