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Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
PORT OF SPAIN -Lalman is among a record number of more than 600 people reported missing in this twin-island state last year. Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert insists that there is no evidence "to suggest people are being trafficked". "People just don't disappear into thin air. We know that human trafficking exists, but the police are probably too embarrassed to come out and say so," said MPA...
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Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Trinidadian boxing champion Giselle Salandy died Sunday from injuries sustained in a car crash on the outskirts of the Caribbean country's capital. She was 21. TRIBUTE Salandy died at Port-of-Spain General Hospital on Sunday morning shortly after the dawn crash, according to Information Minister Neil Parsanlal. He said Salandy's car ran off a highway and smashed into a concrete column after she had...
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RightFielders (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
WBC women’s Junior Middleweight champion Jisselle Salandy died due to injuries suffered in a tragic car accident on the outskirts of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Jisselle was just 21 years old. “The sport fraternity has suffered a tremendous loss and Trinidad and Tobago has lost an icon,” sports minister Gary Hunt said. “Jisselle was a role model for [...]
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Trinidadian boxing champion Jisselle Salandy died yesterday from injuries she suffered in a car crash on the outskirts of the Caribbean country's capital of Port-of-Spain.
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allvoices (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
by Biodun Iginla, News Analyst for BBC News, the Economist, allvoices.com. Research by Moira Tamayo in Puerto Rico. PORT OF SPAIN From The Economist print edition DON’T BOTHER TO REFORM, JUST EXECUTE ON DECEMBER 19th, as the small island state of St Kitts and Nevis prepared to celebrate Christmas and the annual Carnival, bells rang out from the prison in the heart of the capital, Basseterre. Charles...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Notes from Port of Spain examines the situation in Gaza: “In terms of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is a total waste of time and of life. It is a big step backwards.”
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The Seferm Post (Free subscription) | 26/12/2008
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Patrick Manning on Wednesday returned to Trinidad after having a cancerous kidney removed in Cuba.
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Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | 25/12/2008
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Mexico's Cemex SAB is reportedly preparing to unload its 20 percent ...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 25/12/2008
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- Mexico's Cemex SAB is reportedly preparing to unload its 20 percent share in Trinidad Cement Limited, the largest individual stake in the company.
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Patrick Manning on Wednesday returned to Trinidad after having a cancerous kidney removed in Cuba. "I still need a period of rest and convalescence and I should be back in service not too long from now,
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- Cuba is covering all the cost of a cancer operation on Trinidad's prime minister, Trinidadian officials said.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- Prime Minister Patrick Manning underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumor from a kidney on Wednesday, the government said.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
West Indian bloggers continue to comment on the Bush show-throwing incident. Barbadians Jdid and Cheese-on-bread! are unimpressed with the Secret Service's response time, while Notes from Port of Spain says: “It's a pity that the journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi isn't a better shot.”
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
The walls of the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain have been plastered “with large posters showcasing the who's who in local contemporary art” - the bookmann thinks a few additional steps need to be taken to make the project worthwhile.
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Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Igloo Ice Cream, Pepsi, Smalta, TCL, Demerara Power Company, Lifetime Reality & Noble House Seafoods Watched by a spattering of fans at the Wilson Road ground in South Trinidad, just under 60 miles from the Capitol Port-of-Spain, Guyana squeezed past the Windward Islands by one wicket with three balls to spare yesterday in [...]
