Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- The drop in world energy prices is forcing Trinidad and Tobago to postpone the construction of new schools and two major hospitals.
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
The Georgetown Cricket Club’s under-21 indoor ladies’ hockey team surprised all by taking the gold medal at the Magnolias Indoor hockey tournament played in Port-of-Spain ...
oil and energy news (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The prime minister of energy-rich Trinidad has told its citizens to expect cuts in government programs because of an anticipated loss of $1 billion due to the fall in prices of crude oil, natural gas and petrochemical products. Prime Minister Patrick Manning told his country in a televised address Thursday night [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- A pair of goals by Kenwyne Jones and Dwight Yorke in a two-minute span in the second half helped Trinidad to a 3-0 win over Cuba on Wednesday night and a place in the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying.
Soccer Insider (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
CONCACAF wraps up the semifinal round of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup today with four critical matches: *USA-Guatemala in Denver (8 p.m. ET, ESPN Classic and Galavision; tape on ESPN2 at 10 p.m.) *T&T-Cuba in Port of Spain *Honduras-Mexico in San Pedro Sula (8 p.m., Telemundo) *Jamaica-Canada in Kingston Group A: T&T needs only a tie to join the USA in the final round. Guatemala must beat the...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
“More than three years have passed already since the Saturday morning in October 2005 when thousands of Trinidadians marched through the streets of Port of Spain to protest the Manning government's failure to deal with spiralling murder and kidnapping rates, widespread public anxiety, and the profound social inequalities behind these”: Nicholas Laughlin thinks “it is [...]
Boot Sale Sounds (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
An EP 45 I bought at Crewe flea market today for 20p. Predictably dull MOR version of latin sound. I was considering whether this was worthy of including here but seems churlish not too. Recorded at the Edmundo Ros' Club in London 1958. Wikipedia says- "Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Ros' mother was an African-Venezuelan; his father was Scottish. Ros' parents separated not long after he...
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Wednesday November 12 2008 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) said it remains hopeful that the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States will lead to the lifting of the decades-old trade and economic embargo against Cuba. Speaking at a news conference, ACS Secretary-General Luis Fernando Andrade Falla noted that Obama had already expressed the...
Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Peter Richards PORT OF SPAIN, Nov 10 (IPS) - When he ”dropped in” on the Power 102 radio station last weekend to complain about the ”unprofessional conduct” of two local broadcasters, Prime Minister Patrick Manning insisted that he was exercising his right as an ordinary citizen. He later told reporters [...]
HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The east coast is starting to really feel like fall--or worse yet, winter--and just like clockwork, the New York Times used their travel section this past weekend to go ga-ga for the Caribbean. In addition to an article gushing 39 reasons to go tropical this year, they wrote a mostly positive review of the Hyatt Regency Trinidad in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. The hotel opened last January, and the NYT...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
With its attentive staff and large meeting spaces, the Hyatt may be the only option for discerning travelers.
Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, November 05, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Peter Richards PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Nov 5 (IPS) - They sat glued to their television sets as the new president-elect of the United States, Barack Obama, during his acceptance speech in the early hours of Wednesday, made [...]
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD (MARKET WIRE) Media are invited to speak with Canadian Forces (CF) Health Services personnel embarked on USS Kearsarge for Exercise Continuing Promise 2008 while in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Trinidadian blogger Attillah Springer speaks to students in a disadvantaged area of Port of Spain, encouraging them to “defy the expectations this society has of them…because if a man called Barrack Hussein Obama can have a reasonable shot at being the President of the United States of America then by ShangoAllahShivaJesus, anything is possible.”
Riddimjamaica (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
JAMAICAN reggae star Luciano is coming heading to Trindad for a concert on Monday. The event, hosted by Nu Wave Productions led by Michael Sealey - takes place at Reggae Park, St John’s Ambulance Hall, Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain. A popular roots reggae singer/songwriter, Luciano was only 11 when his father died leaving him a guitar he had made by hand. Luciano’s passion for music started with that...
