Caribbean holidays unfold in festivals and island luxury Holiday travel across the Caribbean is gaining momentum as resorts, cities and islands prepare weeks of festivities that stretch from late November into the first days of the new year. Visitors are finding that the region’s beaches and warm weather are only part of the appeal. A […]
Trinidad & Tobago PM backtracks as questions raised about US military personnel Uncertainty over the presence and purpose of United States military personnel in Trinidad and Tobago deepened this week after Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar reversed earlier assurances that US Marines had departed the country. Speaking with reporters lst Thursday, she confirmed that Marines […]
Trinidadian Brent Sinanan appointed World Bank’s global energy adviser The World Bank’s search for a seasoned hand to guide its global energy strategy has led to a Trinidadian engineer whose career has spanned continents and several major petroleum companies. Brent Sinanan, who took up the post of global energy adviser in early October, arrives at […]
Black surgeon Charles Drew was ‘father of the blood bank’ The story of Charles Richard Drew is returning to national attention with the publication of a new biography, “Genius Unbroken,” which revisits the life of the pioneering surgeon whose work reshaped emergency medicine and modern blood banking. The renewed focus highlights not only Drew’s scientific […]
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, known in the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, succumbed to cancer in federal prison while serving a life sentence for killing a Georgia police officer and wounding another in 2000. He spent 25 years in jail. Al-Amin once led the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced “snick”). He later became the […]
Global sporting icons for World Cup draw FIFA Legend Rio Ferdinand says stepping onto the global stage to conduct the historic Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ is “an unbelievable honour.” The former England captain, who spent his playing career thriving under the pressure of football’s biggest moments, now takes on a new […]
Trinidad and Tobago’s decision to once again welcome the United States Marine Corps’ 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) has thrust the country and, by extension the wider Caribbean, into a geopolitical crosswind that its government appears unwilling to acknowledge. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has celebrated the week-long joint training exercise with the United States as […]
Avelo Airlines is offering Canadians bargain basement fares to US destinations by Stephen Weir According to recent reports, Windsor residents, especially “Boomers” are no longer crossing the border to visit Detroit. Blame it on Trump and concerns about ICE border patrols. That, however, may be old news Avelo Air, a 4-year-old bargain basement airline, beckons […]
Hurricane wipes out 30 per cent of Jamaica’s GDP Relief efforts in Jamaica and Cuba continue as authorities and humanitarian partners work to reach communities cut off by last week’s category 5 hurricane. United Nations officials said on Tuesday that both countries face massive recovery needs after the storm destroyed homes, crippled infrastructure and disrupted […]
Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has confirmed that Grenada is in advanced talks with the United States over a proposal to install a radar system on the island to monitor activity near Venezuela, but assured citizens that no agreement would be made in secret or without legal safeguards Speaking during a parliamentary debate last Tuesday, Mitchell […]
