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The value of cocoa estates to T&T
Trinidad Express
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August 6, 2025
Before the discovery of oil, the economy of Trinidad and Tobago was almost entirely based on agriculture, with cocoa reigning supreme. This crop brought wealth and prosperity to the islands, and the grand colonial homes along Queen’s Park West...
TTBWA calls for free glucose monitors for the blind
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The Trinidad and Tobago Blind Welfare Association (TTBWA) has called on the Government to extend its proposed initiative to provide Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) to include blind and visually impaired...
T&T Chamber Urges CARICOM Dialogue After US Tariff Increase
TTT Live Online
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August 4, 2025
The Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce is raising strong concerns following a new US executive order that increases tariffs on regional imports. Starting August 7th, the United States will raise reciprocal tariff rates from 10 to...
Suite success
Trinidad Express
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In a lecture as moving as it was masterful, emeritus professor Winston Suite offered a rare and deeply personal account of his journey through engineering, academia and law—and the unplanned events that shaped a defining Caribbean career in...
‘What ya gonna do with your freedom?’
The Tribune (Bahamas)
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August 6, 2025
By Alicia Wallace WHAT you gonna do with your freedom? This is the question posed by Freedom Morning Come, a play by Entou Pearl Springer, performed in front of the Treasury Building in Port of Spain on the morning of August 1—Emancipation Day in...
T&T must focus on renewable energy
Trinidad Express
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August 4, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago stands at a critical crossroads. With natural gas reserves declining and now representing just a decade of production capacity, down from 37 years in 2000, we can no longer afford to anchor our future to a single vulnerable...
Holland publishes expanded new edition of his Bennington Battle guide
Bennington Banner - Vermont
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BENNINGTON – Phil Holland has published a significantly expanded second edition of his 2016 book, “A Guide to The Battle of Bennington & the Bennington Monument,” but he doubts he’s finished writing about the August 1777 victory that, well, put...
CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease
British Medical Journal
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Kenneth Sterling Charles, senior lecturer1, Carolyn Nicole Maharaj, researcher2, Farah Selina Mohammed, researcher3, Melissa Friday, consultant4 1Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, St...
TTPS Police Academy to launch degree in policing
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Police Academy has announced the introduction of a Bachelor of Science Degree in Policing. The academic programme is designed to enhance professional development and...
Ramirez and Cuello Score KOs in Libya; Fonseca Upsets Oumiha
The Sweet Science
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August 9, 2025
Ramirez and Cuello Score KOs in Libya; Fonseca Upsets Oumiha Boxing is a global sport and there was no better example than tonight’s card in Benghazi in the oil-rich Northern African nation of Libya. Among the listed co-promoters were Mexico’s...
U-M School of Nursing trains Caribbean leaders through simulation-based education initiative
Ann Arbor Times - Michigan
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August 6, 2025
The University of Michigan School of Nursing hosted nursing and midwifery leaders from Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago for simulation training this week. The event is part of a continuing effort to improve health care education and...
La Chupalla House / Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos
ArchDaily
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August 6, 2025
© Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma+ 19 Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1032834/la-chupalla-house-juan-carlos-sabbagh-arquitectos Design Team: Trinidad Fernandez Cox Interior Design: Tfc diseño /...
Zimbabwe studies T&T’s public sector reform model
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Zimbabwean officials are studying elements of Trinidad and Tobago’s public administration system as part of a visit aimed at strengthening their country’s governance framework. Led by Steyn Berejena, Chief Director in...
A Caribbean-African Dilemma: When we knoweth-not from whence we cometh!
The Voice
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August 6, 2025
Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet Saint Lucians have reason to share their Prime Minister’s vexed concerns about what current Opposition politicians are saying and doing to devalue and undermine regional efforts to...
Seek partnerships with Europe
Trinidad Express
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As he prepares to conclude his diplomatic tenure in Trinidad and Tobago, outgoing European Union Ambassador Peter Cavendish has issued a clear message to the local business community: see Europe not as a distant, complex market, but as an...
Mindstar Spelling Bee Ignites Young Minds At SAPA
TTT Live Online
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August 8, 2025
The Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA) came alive with vibrant energy on Friday as one hundred primary and secondary school students, from first year to Form Five, participated in the Mindstar Spelling Bee competition. According to...
Agri-business solution to sargassum
Trinidad Express
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At least two decades ago it could have been said in jest, though with a tinge of truth, that you never did agricultural science in primary school if you never cut a plastic “swee-drink” bottle, lined the underneath with a damp paper towel, and...
Caribbean countries shaken by two earthquakes
The Nation Barbados
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August 5, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN – Several Caribbean countries, including Antigua and Barbuda, were rattled by two earthquakes over a 48 hour period, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St. Augistine campus of the University of the West Indies...
AI Assistant ‘Anansi’ Launched To Revolutionise Access To Government Services
TTT Live Online
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August 5, 2025
The Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence has launched ‘Anansi’, its national artificial intelligence assistant, aimed at making government information and services readily available to citizens across Trinidad and Tobago....
Republic Bank Reaffirms Regional Commitment as Platinum Sponsor of Caribbean Investment Forum 2025
Times Caribbean
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August 6, 2025
MEDIA RELEASE Port of Spain, Trinidad, August 5, 2025: Republic Bank has reaffirmed its position as a catalyst for regional transformation, serving as the Platinum Sponsor of the Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF) 2025, held from July 29–31 in...