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  • Indian Caribbean Museum in Nat Geo list of 500 sacred places

    The Indian Caribbean Museum, described as "a national treasure, a window to the past, and an opportunity to see history come alive", has been cited by a National Geographic publication that showcases 500 of the world's most powerful and spiritual places and guides travellers who wish to visit them. "This is a fitting recognition in just seven years of our existence, especially as we celebrate ...

  • Ex-pilot joins CAL board

    Retired BWIA pilot Cpt Azad Niamat will be the newest member of the Caribbean Airlines board of directors, Finance Minister Larry Howai said yesterday.Howai told reporters at the opening ceremony for the TSL Tech Expo at the Hyatt Regency (Trinidad), Port of Spain that he asked Niamat to join the board, and he agreed, so he (Howai) was now in the process of organising his instruments of ...

  • Howai aims to pay off wage backlog from 2008 - 2010

    Six months into the new financial year, Finance Minster Larry Howai has said that revenues to the State are up, and expenses are down. But this is both a good and bad thing, he said.Howai spoke to reporters yesterday at the opening ceremony for the TSL Tech Expo 2013 at the Hyatt Regency (Trinidad), Port of Spain. "You have to manage expenses, but part of expenditure, particularly on the ...

  • Turtle tourism booming in Trinidad village

    UP CLOSE: In this May 2 photo, a tourist takes photographs of a leatherback turtle as it heads to the ocean after burying her eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. Officials with the US-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say Trinidad is now likely the world's leading tourist destination for people to see ...

  • Kobo Town A Haunted Jukebox Filled With Caribbean Sounds

    , Kobo Town frontman Drew Gonsalves declares his love for the past even as his feet are firmly planted in the present. The music of the Toronto-based band can drift between classic Caribbean pop styles and even verge on hip-hop, but the singer's perspective remains sharply focused, wry and witty. The song "Postcard Poverty," for example, ribs tourists for whom tropical slums ...


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Nathaniel Hawthorne could have been thinking about Bob Crane when he wrote in The Scarlet Letter, No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Since he was brutally murdered by having his head smashed in with a camera tripod in a Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment in 1978, Bob Crane ... ...

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  • Stressed in Cuba the Need to Increase Links in the Caribbean

    Havana, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Caribbean Cultural institutions need to promote and get more cooperation between them, said here Lourdes Croes, Director of the National Library of Aruba, the unique institution of its kind in the ...

  • Research and Markets Trinidad Tobago Exploration and Production Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020

    "Trinidad & Tobago Exploration and Production (Upstream) Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Fields, Blocks, Supply- demand and competitive landscape" report to their offering. Trinidad & Tobago oil and gas Exploration and Production industry research work from OGAnalysis is a compulsory report for all analysts involved in the sector. It ...

  • CIBC says thanks to TT staff

    CIBC FirstCaribbean (Trinidad & Tobago) Managing Director Duane Hinkson, left, expresses thanks to staff members during the company's Employee Appreciation Day ...

  • Cable Wireless Comms targets Caribbean cost cuts

    Wed May 22, 2013 2:27am EDT LONDON May 22 (Reuters) - Cable & Wireless Communications met expectations with a 1 percent rise in full-year core earnings, and said it would cut $100 million of costs from a business now focused on the Caribbean and Central American. The company, which has sold its Macau and Monaco and Islands businesses, posted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and ...

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