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  • Campbell-Brown leads Caribbean contingent in Diamond League

    Three-time Olympic gold medallist and four-time World champion Veronica Campbell-Brown will lead about three dozen Caribbean athletes in the Adidas Grand Prix here next week. The Grand Prix, the third meet of the glitzy, multi-million dollar Diamond League, will be held May 25 at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island here, reports CMC. It will feature dozens of international superstars, including ...

  • Sea Turtle Comeback Giant Leatherback Numbers Rebound In Parts Of Caribbean

    GRANDE RIVIERE, Trinidad - Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using their powerful front flippers to move their bulky frames onto ...

  • Villages in Trinidad embrace threatened sea turtles spark tourist boom

    In this May 2, 2013 photo, a leatherback turtle heads back to the ocean after burying her eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. With more than half of all adult leatherback turtles on the planet having been lost since 1980, mostly in the Eastern Pacific and Asia, the resurgence of leatherbacks in Trinidad is touted by many as a major achievement. ...

  • Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

    Flourishing turtle tourism is providing good livelihoods for people in formerly dead-end farming towns, with the Trinidad-based group Turtle Village Trust saying it brings in some $8.2 million annually. The inflow of visitors, both domestic and foreign, to Trinidad's northeast coast jumped from 6,500 in 2000 to over 60,000 in 2012. Officials with the U.S.-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say ...

  • New board to oversee Trinidads Caribbean Airlines

    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -; Trinidad's finance minister has appointed a new interim board to oversee Caribbean Airlines after announcing that the state-owned company posted losses of more than $70 ...


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Escape From New York [Blu-Ray]

Escape From New York [Blu-Ray]

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  • Has Caribbean Diplomacy Lost Its Mojo

    - Whether by accident or coincidence, recent days have seen a variety of Caribbean leaders and journalists question whether the region is failing to pursue leadership roles within international organisations – and thus losing its voice in global issues like trade, climate change, and peace and ...

  • GISL appoints new board of directors

    the team: The new Government Information Services Ltd (GISL) board are, from left, Denise Balgobin, Jean-Paul Pouchet, Kirt C Walrond, GISL chief executive Andy Johnson; James O'Connor, Gail Prince-Persad, Chadwick Noel; Minister of Communications Jamal Mohammed, Neazam Taylor, chairman Doodnath Bhola, Nickson Trotman, Usha Rampersad-Gokool, Majid S Mohammed and Gail Harris-Persad. Not in ...

  • Ministry launches historic bid round

    "The bid acreage offers a range of opportunities related to block sizes, production potential and hydrocarbon play types. There is a wealth of well and seismic data that should reduce the risk and time of exploration, and the blocks are located in a proven commercial hydrocarbon province, within close proximity to existing infrastructure and producing fields. Trinidad and Tobago has been ...

  • UNWTO Caribbean international tourist arrivals to hit 30 million by 2030

    International tourist arrivals to the Caribbean region are projected to reach 30 million by the year 2030, according to the Tourism Towards 2030 forecast from the UN World Tourism Organization. The Caribbean received a total of 21 million tourist arrivals in 2012. That was announced this week at the 55th Meeting of the UNWTO Commission for the Americas, which is being held in San Jose, Costa ...

  • Caribbean talks conservation on Branson’s island

    Buildings line the shore of Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, Friday, May 17, 2013. Richard Branson, the adventuring CEO and founder of the Virgin Group of companies is co-hosting a two-day meeting at Necker Island, his home in the British Virgin Islands, where he has developed an ultra-exclusive eco-resort that showcases renewable energy technology, reintroduced flamingoes, imported ...

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