PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar Monday described the death of Britain’s former head of government, Margaret Thatcher as “ a profound sense of loss”. “The United Kingdom and indeed the world, has lost a woman who, throughout her life,...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Destination stability and competitiveness in the current global environment, are some of the issues that will be addressed at the upcoming Sustainable Tourism Conference to be held here April 15-18. The 14th annual conference of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) says it is unable to identify any environmental reasons why more than 100 black vultures (Coragyps atratus) died in West Trinidad on Monday. The EMA said it is also working on the theory that the birds may have been feeding ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -The Government of Barbados has been accused of being involved in a "huge cover-up" after local authorities trampled on the rights of Jamaican woman Shanique Myrie. The claim was made yesterday before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by the lawyer representing Myrie in he...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - On the Caricom front, Trinidad and Tobago has unexpectedly been drawn into a low-level confrontation against the United States, its own major trading partner. Two areas of conflict comprise online gambling (whereby players participate in virtual casinos online), as pursued ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last month, veteran journalist Owen Baptiste, former editor in chief of both the T&T Guardian and the Trinidad Express, spent a week in Florida talking with Lawrence Duprey. This is the first of an exclusive five-part series by Baptiste, based on their long, frank discu...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Dame Hilda Bynoe, Grenada’s first -ever native head of state has died here after a prolonged illness, relatives confirmed. She was 91. “Grenada considers the passing of Dame Hilda as a great loss, not just to Grenada but to the Caribbean as a whole. She cam...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Ministry of National Security is reported to be awaiting answers from officials of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) over the carrier’s failure to secure work permits for several of its foreign pilots. The T&T Guardian understands the ministry wrote to the airline two ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will hear final submissions in the Shanique Myrie case when the court sits at its headquarters in Port of Spain on Monday and Tuesday. The Trinidad-based CCJ will hear testimony in the case brought by Myrie, 25, who alleged that when ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Unbroken education for Haitian children is one of the success stories that has emerged in the aftermath of the earthquake which rocked Port-au-Prince on January 10, 2010. The children were displaced, and to some extent they still are not studying and learning in comfortable...