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Bharath: Chavez death will not impact trade with T&T

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's death on Tuesday is unlikely to have any impact on trade between that country and Trinidad and Tobago, Trade Minister Vasant Bharath said yesterday.
In a telephone interview with the Express, Bharath said he met with new Venezuelan Ambassador Coromoto Godoy Calderon last week to discuss the possibility of a T&T trade mission to Venezuela to facilitate an improved trade relationship.
He said he was looking at some time in June or July for the mission to take place.

EDITORIAL - Life after Chávez

KINGSTON, Jamaica - AS WRENCHING as it may still have been for his mass of supporters around the world, few could claim that Tuesday's death of Hugo Chávez, the charismatic and controversial president of Venezuela, had been entirely unexpected.
There was a sense that statements in recent days by his deputy, Nicolas Maduro, about the deteriorated state of Chávez's health were preparing the Venezuelan public for the inevitable. In that regard, Chávez's February 18 return to Venezuela from Cuba might have been a coming home to die.

EDITORIAL: Chavez reached out to CARICOM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE NOT SO UNEXPECTED NEWS came on Tuesday night of the passing of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader for the past 14 years. He had become the standout figure in Latin America during his term in office, and forced many to either like him or hate him. There was no middle ground with Chavez.

UWI panel on Chavez today

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Interim President of Venezuela Nicholas Maduro may likely win the upcoming election following the death of Hugo Chavez and his approach may be the same as Chavez’s, says Dr Mark Kirton of UWI’s Institute of International Relations. He spoke yesterday ahead of today’s panel discussion on Chavez by the institute.

Jamaica turned back as many CARICOM nationals as Barbados, CCJ told

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A senior Jamaican immigration official yesterday conceded, during the Shanique Myrie trial before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), that there was no significant disparity in the number of Caribbean nationals denied entry to Barbados in the last five years when compared to Jamaica.
The admission by Ephieum Allen, the acting deputy director for immigration at the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), came while he was being questioned about the statistics tendered as evidence in the landmark case.

Jamaica turned back as many CARICOM nationals as Barbados, CCJ told

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A senior Jamaican immigration official yesterday conceded, during the Shanique Myrie trial before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), that there was no significant disparity in the number of Caribbean nationals denied entry to Barbados in the last five years when compared to Jamaica.
The admission by Ephieum Allen, the acting deputy director for immigration at the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), came while he was being questioned about the statistics tendered as evidence in the landmark case.

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