PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 6, 2022 - PRESIDENT of the Scrap Iron Dealers Association Allan Ferguson wants the World Trade Organization (WTO) to prevail on the Trinidad and Tobago Government to end the six-month ban on scrap-metal exports from that country.
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St Vincent and the Grenadines is expecting to provide some EC$1.5 million in subsidies for the 4 shipments of fertilizer expected to be delivered between April & year-end.
CARICOM SECRETARIAT, Georgetown, Guyana, October 1, 2021 - The following is a Weekly Business News Aggregation Service which has been put together as a newsletter by the CARICOM Secretariat’s Directorate of Trade & Economic Integration, under the direction of Assistant Secretary General Joseph Cox.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 21, 2021 - As the Regional carrier, Caribbean Airlines continues to claw its way out of its financial quagmire occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline has announced a strategic restructure which is expected to affect 25% of its workforce as well as a decrease in the size of its fleet.
PORT-OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 20, 2022 - The Trinidad Guardian is reporting that a Bitcoin mining farm, Trinimine, is in the works for Trinidad and Tobago, and could become a reality within eleven months.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 5, 2022 - UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI) economist Dr Vaalmiki Arjoon has intimated that there is a cost of living crisis in Trinidad and Tobago which he hopes will be corrected by the Finance Minister shortly.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, Ju8ne 15, 2021 - Finance Minister Colm Imbert is concerned that at the present rate the country’s National Insurance Fund could be depleted within the next twenty five years.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago August 30, 2022 - Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a trade complaints mechanism between T&T and Jamaica in an effort to foster better relations.
Georgetown, Guyana, October 5, 2021 - Several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states on Monday signed a declaration to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, as the region prepares to tap into assistance from Norway to tackle the scourge that experts say is linked to a range of other transnational crimes.
MONTEGO BAY, December 3, 2021 - While Jamaica was forced to dump without penalty, 240-thousand doses of vaccines received from the COVAX facility in October and November that were about to expire, St. Vincent and the Grenadines chose to give some of its “at risk of expiring” vaccines to Trinidad and Tobago and were penalized for it.
