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Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, continued to captivate the imagination and attention of the youths, many of whom did not mind cutting short their Saturday morning sleep to greet her during an early morning visit to Queen’s Hall, Port of Spain, yesterday.
Tags: Hall, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Queen, Queen's University, Carnivals, Human Interest
Carrington also noted Guyana President Bharat Jagdeo has also made strong statements on the issue, ’especially in the aspect with respect to forests’...The matter was at the top of the agenda of a Caricom caucus meeting that took place at the Hyatt Regency...
Tags: Edwin Carrington, Caricom Heads Liliendaal, Trinidad and Tobago, CHOGM, climate change, New York City, Environment, Caribbean Community, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Caribbean, Guyana
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, along with sports personalities, Darryl Browne and Daren Ganga yesterday visited Fatima grounds on Mucurapo Road for the launch of Unicef’s International Inspiration’s youth programme. Brown took time out from his...
Tags: International Inspiration, UNICEF, Gordon Brown, Darryl Browne, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Daren Ganga
Jahajee Massacre walk postponed Sunday, November 29th 2009 The annual Jahajee Massacre walk, which was supposed to take place today from Couva to the Bali Dan Tola (Place of Sacrifice), Mon Repos site, has been postponed to a date to be announced. The...
Tags: Jahajee Massacre Walk, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Bali, Asura, Vaishnavism, Mahabali, Chiranjeevins
This from a Government insider who said though diplomacy is meant to rule the round table, with the issue of climate change being so high on the agenda, tempers could flare at this week’s series of high powered meetings. The urgency of striking a climate...
Tags: climate change, world leaders, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Environment, Carbon finance, 19th century, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Global warming, 21st century
Despite much criticism about the proposed draconian penalties in the tobacco legislation recently passed, the initiative is a welcome move, but it is well to remember that the air we breathe today contains more than tobacco smoke.
Tags: vehicle emissions, tobacco smoke, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Environment, Air pollution, Smoke, Liquid fuels, Gasoline, Petroleum products, Tobacco, Disaster Accident, Automobile emissions control, Air dispersion modeling
Prof Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Winner 2001, came to UWI and delivered a brilliant lecture on the measurement or rather the mismeasurement of economic growth. It was not the most eloquent lecture we have had from Nobel visitors, but it was certainly...
Tags: Joseph Stiglitz, European Social, Mr Sarkozy, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Economic ideologies, Applied ethics, Happiness economics, Index numbers, Gross domestic product, Happiness, National accounts
The Act, I expect, will join those preventing littering and mandating the use of seatbelts (among many other bits of legislation relating to motoring behaviour) that, on paper, make the country appear awfully progressive but which in reality are seldom...
Tags: Tobacco Control Bill, Tobacco Control Act, legal product, hand smoke, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Smoking, Tobacco smoking, Passive smoking, Cigarette, Tobacco, Smoking ban, Tobacco politics, Tobacco control movement
North Zone coaches hold successful workshop Sunday, November 29th 2009 Former WI coach: Gus Logie The North Zone Cricket Coaches Association held a successful two-day workshop at Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, last weekend, with the likes of former...
Tags: west indies, north zone, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Coach, Garfield Sobers, Coaching, Life coaching, allnews, Gus Logie
Bas missed golden opportunity Sunday, November 29th 2009 Basdeo Panday, as Leader of the Opposition, is constitutionally recognised as being part of what is known in democratic societies as ’Government’. He, however, usually sits in Parliament and is...
Tags: US White House, square feet, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Politics, Basdeo Panday, Palace