AMMAN, Jordan -- The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World (2009 Edition) is a first of its kind published by the Prince Al-waleed Bin Talaal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, Washington DC in conjunction with the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, Jordan. read more...

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The Commonwealth of 53 nations, whose leaders will be meeting in Trinidad and Tobago next week, has a unique opportunity to stop the crash in world fish stocks and promote sustainable management. “From Hook to Plate”, an expert, up-to-date report on the state of... read more...

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SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) -- South Korea's Samsung Engineering said on Wednesday it had won a US$220 million order to build a refinery unit by March 2012 from the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago. The builder said that it would construct the unit with capacity of 40,000 barrels per day. read more...

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I write as the Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). CHRI is an international, non-partisan, independent NGO headquartered in New Delhi, with offices in London and Ghana. We advocate for greater compliance with the letter and spirit of the Commonwealth’s fundamental political values. read more...

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I read with disbelief in the Trinidad Express newspaper, adverse comments made by High Court Judge, Herbert Volney against the Trinidad and Tobago goverment and went so far to advise remanded prisoners to go on a hunger strike in protest against the criminal justice system in the twin island republic. read more...

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LONDON, England -- According to a new report by Business Monitor International, which provides a detailed analysis of the telecommunications market, Cuba remains a market to watch owing to the possible changes that a renewed relationship with the US could bring. read more...

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LONDON, ENGLAND -- The London School of Business & Finance is coming to Trinidad and Tobago to host the 2009 Accounting Forum in Port of Spain, bringing together students, professionals, ACCA representatives and government officials to discuss the future of accounting and  and education within the Caribbean. read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Cuba and Trinidad & Tobago ratified their commercial cooperation bonds during the fourth day of Havana’s 27th International Fair, which winds up on Saturday at the Expocuba complex. Trinidadian ambassador Lester Efebo Wilkinson thanked Cuba for its cooperation in programs. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Noting that there have been developments associated with the provision of cement on the local market by Trinidad Cement Limited, Cabinet Secretary, Roger Luncheon, on Thursday stated the regional cement company is failing to meet the expectations of the Caribbean Region read more...

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) continues to drive the effort to have this country reap maximum benefit from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM (CARICOM and the Dominican Republic), signed in 2008. read more...

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PIARCO, Trinidad -- Caribbean Airlines newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Captain Ian Brunton announced new changes to the airline’s top management. At an internal meeting organised for all staff at its head office at Piarco, Captain Brunton explained the company was seeking to streamline its operations. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA -- The spirit of Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival returns to New York on Thursday, November 5, 2009 when the New York-based Caribbean-owned special events company, Antilia, Inc. hosts an evening of entertainment and elegance. The event will feature international soca king, Machel Montano. read more...

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) -- Trinidad and Tobago's LNG exports to the United States, its major market, declined during the first seven months of the last fiscal year, while increased shipments went to higher priced markets in Europe and Asia. The US and Spain are the two largest importers of LNG. read more...

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) -- Costa Rica kept their hopes alive of making the World Cup finals in South Africa after Alvaro Saborio scored twice in a 4-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday. The result moves Costa Rica into the third automatic qualification spot, two points ahead of Honduras. read more...

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SANTIAGO, Brazil (Bloomberg) -- The government of Trinidad & Tobago is in talks with a Brazilian company to build an aluminum smelter on the island. The company seeks to build a smelter capable of producing 125,000 metric tons a year of the metal, Energy Industry Minister Conrad Enill said.  read more...

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) -- Expansion of Trinidad and Tobago's liquefied natural gas production may not go ahead because there is currently not enough extra gas, David Small, director of policy at the Ministry of Energy, told Reuters on Wednesday. Demand for LNG has slipped this year. read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba, (ACN) -- Arlene Roberts, an attorney and a journalist specialized in showbusiness, described as arbitrary the decision of the US government of preventing the New York Philharmonic Orchestra from performing in Havana. She says that the Orchestra had planned a visit to the Cuban capital. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The observance of Caribbean Wellness Day 2009 came up for high plaudits by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health at their meeting in Washington, USA on the week-end. The Meeting of the 18th Caucus of Ministers of Health said they were “thrilled at the positive report." read more...

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CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuela said on Friday it had acquired ConocoPhillips' share in the Deltana Platform offshore natural gas project and will develop the field in a joint venture with Chevron. The Deltana Platform is a gas field between the mouth of the Orinoco river and Trinidad and Tobago. read more...

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SCARBOROUGH, Tobago -- Travelers looking for an adventure in flavor are invited to tickle the taste buds during Tobago’s 10th Annual Blue Food Festival on October 18, 2009. Through inspired culinary creations the event will highlight the island’s indigenous foods, including dasheen. read more...

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LONDON, England -- A group of Caribbbean High Commissioners in London this week paid a visit to the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in Edinburgh, with the aim of fostering a deeper relationship with members of the Scottish Parliament with the proposed establishment of a Cross-Party Parliamentary Group. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community has lost, in one week, three major literary figures: Jamaica’s Trevor Rhone, Suriname’s Henk Tjon and Trinidad and Tobago’s Wayne Brown. Rhone and Tjon were both internationally acclaimed theatre artists, Wayne Brown was an acclaimed poet. read more...

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- An appeal has been made for more authorship of books from Caribbean writers, retailing the stories of the region. “Our primary responsibility to ourselves is to ensure that our side of our story is told by us,’’ Trinidad and Tobago diplomat Michael Lashley told a group of Caribbean nationals. read more...

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Lorraine Waldropt-Ferguson, an Assistant-Manager, who hails from the private sector in Trinidad and Jean-Robert Richard, a Food Technologist in the public sector in Tobago, provided a perfect mix as representatives of this country at the Forum for Young Leaders involved in the... read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- The Republic of Colombia assumed on Monday the Chair of the Summit of the Americas from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago at a meeting of the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG), the principal organ of the Process of the Summits of the Americas. read more...

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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The foremost non-profit trade and investment promotion organization in Taiwan, the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) has been entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Taiwan to organize and lead a trade mission to Trinidad and Tobago, St Vincent and St Lucia. read more...

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SCARBOROUGH, Tobago -- The island of Tobago is gearing up to host the 23rd Annual International Cycling Classic. The five-day / five-stage event will be held from September 30 – October 4, 2009 and features world-class athletes including the return of last year’s champion, Heath Blackgrove of New Zealand. read more...

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MIAMI, USA (Reuters) -- Ricardo Clark struck a 62nd minute goal as the United States labored to a 1-0 win away to Trinidad and Tobago in their World Cup qualifier on Wednesday. The result sends the US three points clear at the top of the qualifying group for North and Central America and the Caribbean. read more...

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) -- Trinidad and Tobago's economy will recover next year and is forecast to grow 2 percent in 2010 after a projected contraction of 0.9 percent this year, Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira said this week while presenting the 2010 budget to Parliament. read more...

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LONDON, England -- Dwight Yorke, the former Manchester United forward, has retired from football after being released by his last club, Sunderland, at the end of last season. Yorke, 37, won the 1999 Champions League and three successive Premiership titles in a four-year spell at United. read more...

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Divali, known worldwide as the Festival of Lights, is celebrated by Hindus in India and around the globe. In Trinidad & Tobago, where the population is approximately 40 percent Indian, the festival is celebrated by the young and old, rich and poor with colorful events and extravagant light display. read more...

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SCARBOROUGH, Tobago -- Warren Solomon has been appointed to the position of director of tourism for The Tobago House of Assembly's (THA) Division of Tourism and Transportation. Solomon will oversee all the THA’s tourism product development initiatives as well as niche development and marketing. read more...

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ST GEORGE'S, Grenada -- The region’s integration process will be given a boost when the new inter island ferry service is launched. This new service owned and operated by BEDY Oceanlines is expected to be officially launched on October 1 and make its maiden voyage on October 20, 2009. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Population Reference Bureau's 2009 World Population Data Sheet released recently shows a significant number of nationals in five Caribbean countries live on less than US$2 a day. Those countries are: Haiti, St Lucia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname. read more...

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When Commonwealth Heads of Government meet in Trinidad in November, they might have expected to welcome back to their councils a government of Fiji that had been elected in March. As it turns out, there will be no Fiji in Trinidad. If a contest was held to choose a country with a culture of coups d’état... read more...

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NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg) -- Petroleum Co. of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd sold $850 million of 10-year dollar bonds in its first dollar-denominated debt sale in two years. Petrotrin, as the company is known, sold the 9.75 percent bonds to yield 9.875 percent, or a spread of 618.4 basis points. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg) -- Petroleum Co. of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. is offering 10-year bonds that may price to yield about 10 percent in its first dollar-denominated debt offering in two years, according to people familiar with the transaction. The sale will be completed as soon as Tuesday, the people said. read more...

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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Trinidad and Tobago's state-owned oil company Petrotrin could raise upto $850 million through the sale of 10-year dollar bonds next week, a fund manager source said on Wednesday. The benchmark deal is set to launch next week following investor meetings. read more...

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) -- Trinidad and Tobago's economy contracted by 3.3 percent in the first quarter of this year as activity in the Caribbean nation's energy sector declined 2 percent, the Central Bank said on Wednesday. A central bank economic bulletin said crude oil production fell 4.1 percent. read more...

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LONDON, England -- Amnesty International is calling on the authorities in Trinidad and Tobago not to execute a man who is accused of killing his sister-in-law. Ronald Tiwarie was sentenced to death on the Caribbean island in 2004 and it is feared that he could be executed within days read more...

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