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Travelers Are Flocking to These Caribbean Islands as New Flights, Fresh Hotels, and Foodie Hotspots Fuel a Tourism Boom

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The arrivals hall at Owen Roberts International Airport has felt different this year. Flights from Toronto have been landing full. The nonstop from New York has been carrying winter-weary travelers escaping late-season cold. Restaurants along Seven Mile Beach have stayed busy deep into what used to be quieter weeks. Hotels that normally begin easing rates after peak winter have […]

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Trinidad's Moonilal: Benefits of BP Gas Discovery Will "Take Some Time"

Above: Housing and Marine Affairs Minister Roodal Moonilal By the Caribbean Journal staff The recently-announced discovery of 1 trillion cubic feet of gas by BP Trinidad and Tobago will provide a boost to the country’s economy — but it will take some time for that to happen, according to Housing, Land and Marine Affairs Minister […]

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BP Doubles Trinidad Oil Exploration

By the Caribbean Journal staff British Petroleum said it had been awarded a pair of deepwater oil exploration blocks off the Trinidad coast. The two blocks are off of Trinidad’s eastern coast. BP’s Trinidad operations account for more than half of the country’s natural gas output and 12 percent of BP’s global oil and gas […]

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BP Shuts Down Trinidad Gas Platform to Improve Safety Standards

A BP platform (© BP P.L.C.) British Petroleum, which pumps approximately 60 percent of the natural gas in Trinidad and Tobago, announced that it had shut its Mahogany A offshore drilling platform in order to improve its safety standards. “Since the Gulf of Mexico incident there have been instituted a number of new safety measures,” […]

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