Posted in Caribbean on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a year of complicated and tough negotiations, world leaders will meet in the Danish capital, Copenhagen for a 12-day summit beginning tomorrow to try to reach an agreement on the fundamental issues that will form the substance of a legally binding international agreement.
Despite the camaraderie displayed in Port of Spain over a week [...]
Posted in Caribbean on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
People have a right to protect themselves, their family and their values and this may have been the thinking behind the 41,800 persons who applied for gun licences over the past eight years in Trinidad and Tobago, now a major crime hot spot in the Caribbean.
Some 215 people were granted firearm users licences from a [...]
Posted in Caribbean on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No one can ignore the spate of criticism that has been levelled at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in one way or the other within recent months.
We’ve seen some leaders using the most provocative language to express their disdain at the slowness and the backwardness of the community; governments using not-so-subtle threats against each other over [...]
Posted in Caribbean on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From all accounts, last weekend’s Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain was a major success for the fact that leaders of the 34 countries across the western hemisphere were able to dialogue even though there were deep differences and it took place without the rancour and acrimony which pervaded the Summit in [...]
Posted in Caribbean on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Prime Minister Patrick Manning did promise that Trinidad and Tobago will reap the benefits of hosting this coming week of the Fifth Summit of the Americas, costing taxpayers over US$80 million.
We just did not know that the benefits would have come in so quickly!
So far, the gang-related killings, a daily norm in the country, seem [...]
Posted in Caribbean on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In less than one month’s time, Trinidad and Tobago will host the Fifth Summit of the Americas, bringing together 34 democratically-elected leaders of the Western Hemisphere to continue building the foundation for action to improve the lives of some 800 million people who live in this space.
The leaders attending the Summit, no doubt, will be [...]
Posted in Business articles, Caribbean on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Caribbean countries are bracing – and are warning their populations – about stringent economic times as the fall out from the financial global crisis continues to descend on them.
Jobs have already been lost, not only in the tourism sector on which most of the regional countries depend on, but also from manufacturing and processing and [...]
Posted in Caribbean on February 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For several months, there were whispers among the corporate circle that all was not well with some subsidiaries of the Trinidad-based conglomerate CL Financial.
The conglomerate had over-stretched itself this time, according to the hushed discussions, conquering the globe with rapid investments in energy, real estate, spirits, insurance, banking, manufacturing and distribution.
The issue broke into the [...]
Posted in Caribbean on January 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every year around this time, so-called prophets, soothsayers, psychics and other people who profess to ’see’ into the future emerge to give their ‘predictions’ on what the next 12 months may hold.
I read them out of curiosity and as I go through their ‘predictions’, most of the times I can’t help but think that given [...]
Posted in Caribbean on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For two weeks earlier this months, thousands of delegates from around the world met in Poznan, Poland for international climate negotiations aimed at reaching an ambitious global climate change agreement in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009, as a successor pact to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions reductions, whose first commitment period ends in [...]
