Africa meets Caribbean trade mission kicks off next Tuesday

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A high-powered Africa meets the Caribbean trade mission kicks off next Tuesday in Jamaica, before heading to T&T the following Thursday. Theme of the mission is Social Changes: Catalyst for Regional Investment, Growth & Development and it is organised by UK-based Ca...
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Central Bank optimistic about economic growth

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago said it remains “cautiously optimistic” that the country’s economic growth will surpass two per cent in 2013, pointing to a number of actions that have taken place “over the course of last year. Cent...
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PNM Leads THA Race

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A poll ahead of next Monday’s Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election is predicting a landslide victory for the incumbent People’s National Movement (PNM). The poll, by Nigel Henry and Tarik Parris of the firm Solution by Simulation, was carried out by telephone...
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Manage cement price

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last Tuesday, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) announced a rise in price on a standard 42.5 kilogramme bag of cement by 9.5 per cent. The company had warned last July that it would have to review its prices after a 90-day strike by the OWTU meant to shift the company’s p...
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Govt plans to urge CARICOM to decrease duties on cement

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Government plans to lobby CARICOM for a decrease in the duties on cement, Trade Minister Vasant Bharath said yesterday. He spoke about the 9.5 per cent increase announced by Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) during yesterday’s post-Cabinet news conference. Bharath said C...
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Take a bow, Tobago

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - However it goes on THA election day January 21, the people of Tobago have already scored a victory with the agreement by the contesting political parties to participate in tonight's debate. To have secured the leaders of the three contending parties to agree to enter t...
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CARICOM stock market review 2012

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The year 2012 was a challenging year for equity investors in Caricom. Despite solid gains on manufacturing, conglomerate and banking stocks, returns were depressed by declines on tourism, real estate, insurance, investments and retail stocks. As a result, the CSX 30, which...
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Ministers in ‘secret talks’ with Jack

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Seven Government Ministers, including National Security Minister and UNC chairman Jack Warner, were in Tobago yesterday for a meeting with political leader of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP), Ashworth Jack. The meeting took place at the Coco Reef Resort in Crow...
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Christie in demand - Trinidadian coalition brings Christie on board

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica's former contractor general Greg Christie has been brought on board by a coalition of private sector and civil society groups in Trinidad and Tobago to advise it on draft legislative proposals now before the twin-island republic's parliament. Christie has been en...
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