By Caribbean Business Report | Photo credit: Ms. Barbara D’Adrea Adrian, Chief of the International Trade Statistics Section Regional governments should increase investment in trade enabling initiatives which strengthen both competitiveness and efficiency, says Ian Durant, the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB, the Bank) Director of Economics. Speaking at the joint Regional Workshop on Measuring Digital […]
By Natricia Duncan and Kejan Haynes, The Guardian Escalating violence in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) has caused the country’s government to extend emergency security measures declared in December, after a week of bloody gang warfare that left at least six dead. Late on Monday evening, the T&T parliament unanimously agreed on a three-month extension of a state […]
By Kenneth Mohammed, THE GUARDIAN A state of emergency has been declared amid unprecedented gun violence, but no one in our stagnating government is taking responsibility. Just before the new year, Trinidad and Tobago’s government declared a state of emergency after a weekend of gun violence. Trinidad and Tobago, a country of about 1.5 million people and once the […]
Photo credit: Caribbean Business Report St Vincent and the Grenadines Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves says the country’s economy lost an estimated EC$290.12 million (US$107 million) following the collapse of the two Trinidad-based insurance companies in 2009. In October, the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that the Trinidad and Tobago government was not […]
By Elizabeth Williams, Trinidadexpress.com | Photo courtesy of her family AMONG the bodies piled up at the Scarborough mortuary awaiting autopsies are that of Sarah Smith, 34, and her two children, 18-month-old Phoenix Smith and three-year-old Genuine Smith. Their bodies were found in a decommissioned WASA tank on September 11 in Parlatuvier. Autopsies today: […]
Photos: Sarah Smith Facebook | Flyer by Hunters Search and Rescue Team Trinidad & Tobago I write to you as a devastated father appealing for urgent attention to the tragic and brutal murder of my beloved children, Genuine and Saballie Smith, along with their mother, Sarah Smith. Sarah Smith This tragic event occurred in the […]