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This Caribbean Beach Has Soft Sand, Vibrant Water, and a Barefoot Rhythm

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There is a version of the Caribbean that lives more in novels than in real life. It is barefoot and unhurried, defined by quiet mornings and long afternoons where nothing interrupts the rhythm of the sea. It exists without crowds or schedules, without spectacle. You come upon it by chance, often on foot, and it […]

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Trinidad Energy Minister Urges Greater Natural Gas Collaboration With Venezuela

Above: Minister Kevin Ramnarine By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine is calling for “greater collaboration and partnership” between Trinidad and Venezuela in the area of natural gas development. Ramnarine made the call this week during a visit to the 2nd Gas Summit of the Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum in […]

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Trinidad Launching Project to Convert Vehicles to Compressed Natural Gas

Above: Port of Spain (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad’s state-owned Natural Gas Company will be investing TT$500 million ($78 million US) to develop the first phase of a compressed natural gas plan for all vehicles in the country, the government announced Thursday. The five-year plan, part of a two-phased plan, will start […]

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Haiti, IDB to Partner on Green Energy Projects in Rural Areas

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Inter-American Development bank has approved a grant for a $3 million cooperation project with the government of Haiti to test green energy projects. The projects will test models based on solar, sustainable biomass and hybrid approaches in a country that has the lowest level of […]


Trinidad Launching Project to Convert Vehicles to Compressed Natural Gas

Above: Barbados (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Construction on a pipeline that will bring natural gas from Trinidad and Tobago to islands of the Eastern Caribbean will begin next year, according to the Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline company. The pipeline will begin at the Cove Eco Business and Industrial Park in southwestern Tobago, […]

Barbados, Trinidad Talk Natural Gas

By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados and Trinidad are currently negotiating a deal that would import natural gas into Barbados, according to Sir Harcourt Lewis, chairman of the country’s National Petroleum Corporation. Lewis was speaking at the 30th anniversary luncheon and awards ceremony of the corporation. The gas would be pumped through a pipeline on […]

Trinidad-Based Pipeline to Supply Natural Gas to Eastern Caribbean

Above: Port of Spain By the Caribbean Journal staff A new pipeline to be laid on 188 miles of seabed will bring natural gas from Trinidad and Tobago to the Eastern Caribbean, the country’s Ministry of Energy announced today in a post-cabinet briefing. The pipeline, which will be laid from Tobago to Barbados, is slated […]

Trinidad, Panama talk Energy

Above: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar shaking hands with Minister of Energy of Panama, Juan Manuel Urriola Tam. Others in photo are Larry Howai, CEO of First Citizens Bank Group; Lindsay Gillette, Chairman of Petrotrin; Ambassador Arline Gonzales Costa, Kevin Ramnarine, Minister of Energy; Neil Gosine, Chairman of NP and Dr Surujrattan Rambachan, Minister of Foreign […]

Trinidad's Energy Minister Meets with Ghanaian Officials on Natural Gas

Ghana’s Energy Minister Dr. Joe Oteng-Adjei and Trinidad’s Minister of Energy Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan By the Caribbean Journal staff Following an agreement that would see Trinidad supply energy for power plants in Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs, Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan, visited Ghana at the end of last month. The minister led a […]