PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The World Bank, under the leadership of President Jim Yong Kim, has focused attention on the ambitious and demanding work to eliminate extreme poverty in the world's population by 2030 and to increase the income of the poorest 40 per cent in order to promote shared prosperi...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The European Union is providing an Euro 8.6 million (One Euro = US$1.29) grant to support a project to improve Caribbean food security in the context of climate change. The project is being conducted in Belize, Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Is it unrealistic for T&T to continue to have a national airline? Or is the issue one of incompetent and corrupt management at the national airline? Can Caricom, as a group of struggling economies, continue to have half a dozen national airlines, all of them losing hundreds...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Caribbean Airlines (CAL) board has directed that its acting chief executive Robert Corbie provide a report on why the company has to potentially write off $200 million in cargo revenue and credit card fraud. Chairman Rabindra Moonan, in a telephone interview yesterday,...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In his book, Re-engineering Management, James Champy states: The results are in: Re-engineering works—up to a point. The obstacle is management. The only way we’re going to deliver on the full promise of re-engineering is to start re-engineering management. The problem is, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ministers of transport will meet in St. Vincent and the Grenadines later this month and are likely to make recommendations that will go before regional leaders at their annual summit in Trinidad and Tobago in July on the vexing question of...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Foreign Ministers ended a two-day meeting here on Wednesday night agreeing on a number of new initiatives to give the Caribbean a greater role in global economic and political situations. Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Affairs Minister Win...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Proper governance structures need to be in place at all enterprises funded by taxpayers, including one like Caribbean Airlines (CAL), to avoid situations where these companies have to write off major debts, business leaders have said. “In the private sector, you can&r...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - US Vice President Joe Biden is to spend one night and two days in Trinidad and Tobago during his visit later this month. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran told reporters after the opening ceremony of CARICOM’s Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCO...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Recently, there have been a number of rash and, in some instances, derogatory letters, describing Jamaica's perceived relationship with Trinidad & Tobago (T&T). Some were whimsical and others simply vacuous. Generally, they demonstrate a lack of understanding regardin...