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Trinidad Takes Caribbean Lead in Year-End FIFA Rankings
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Carnival’s Mardi Gras to Begin Short Cruises as Line Expands Commitment to Key U.S. Markets

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More and more cruise lines are getting into the short-getaway business. The most notable? Royal Caribbean, which continues to make a push into mini-cruises. The next? Carnival. And now, Carnival Cruise Line’s flagship Mardi Gras will soon begin offering short cruises from its current homeport, Port Canaveral, expanding the line’s footprint in one of the […]

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Trinidad, El Salvador to Begin Second Round of Trade Talks Next Month

More and more cruise lines are getting into the short-getaway business. The most notable? Royal Caribbean, which continues to make a push into mini-cruises. The next? Carnival. And now, Carnival Cruise Line’s flagship Mardi Gras will soon begin offering short cruises from its current homeport, Port Canaveral, expanding the line’s footprint in one of the […]

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Trinidad, IDB, United States Talk Energy

More and more cruise lines are getting into the short-getaway business. The most notable? Royal Caribbean, which continues to make a push into mini-cruises. The next? Carnival. And now, Carnival Cruise Line’s flagship Mardi Gras will soon begin offering short cruises from its current homeport, Port Canaveral, expanding the line’s footprint in one of the […]

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Trinidad Foreign Minister Visits Europe

More and more cruise lines are getting into the short-getaway business. The most notable? Royal Caribbean, which continues to make a push into mini-cruises. The next? Carnival. And now, Carnival Cruise Line’s flagship Mardi Gras will soon begin offering short cruises from its current homeport, Port Canaveral, expanding the line’s footprint in one of the […]

Trinidad, IDB, United States Talk Energy

 Above: the International Criminal Court By the Caribbean Journals staff Trinidad’s Justice Geoffrey Andrew Henderson has been appointed as a judge of the International Criminal Court. Henderson was named in elections during the 12th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC. Henderson received votes of 98 of the […]

Rebranding at Tobago's Magdalena Grand

 Above: the Tobago Plantations Golf Course By the Caribbean Journal staff The Magdalena Grand in Tobago has been renamed the Magdalena Grand Beach & Golf Resort, following a move by operator efm Hospitality Solutions to take over management of the nearby 18-hole Tobago Plantations Golf Course. The golf course will officially reopen with that name […]

Trinidad and Tobago to Establish National Committee on Reparations

 Above: Port of Spain (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago is setting up a national committee on reparations for slavery, the government announced last week. In a statement, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar expressed “delight” on the formation of a committee, saying that St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph […]

JetBlue Gets Final Approval For Service to Trinidad and Tobago

 Above: Port of Spain (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago’s Civil Aviation Authority has issued JetBlue its operating licence to begin service to Port of Spain, the Ministry of Transport announced. The New York City-based carrier will begin daily nonstop service from New York to Port of Spain beginning Feb. 24, […]

Trinidad and Tobago Signs $48 Million MoU on Agricultural Production

 Above: Trinidad (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj has signed a $48.3 million USD memorandum understanding with a group of companies in the agricultural sector. The agreement involves the use of the Caroni Green Initiative, which aims to use land that was left uncultivated after the […]

Greater Caribbean Establishes First "Sustainable Tourism Zone"

 Above: Trinidad (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The greater Caribbean region is now the world’s first-ever “Sustainable Tourism Zone,” following ratification by member states of the Association of Caribbean States. The convention creating the Sustainable Tourism Zone officially entered into force on Nov. 6; it has been a major priority of the ACS, […]

A New Diplomacy of Development?

 Above: Trinidad Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran By the Caribbean Journal staff Is it time for a new diplomacy of development? That’s the view held by Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran, who made the call during a speech to Commonwealth Finance Ministers in Sri Lanka this week. He was speaking during a a meeting […]

Tobago to Install Coral Reef Early Warning System at Buccoo Reef

 Above: Tobago (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Tobago will be part of the CREWS international coral reef early warning system, according to Godwin Williams, secretary of agriculture, marine affairs, marketing and the environment in the Tobago House of Assembly. Tobago’s participation will mean the installation of specially-manufactured buoys at the Buccoo Reef in […]