Commonwealth support for Belize, Guyana in border disputes
Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow..Guatemala wants a chunk of his country.
Commonwealth heads welcomed the signing of a special agreement between Belize and Guyana in its border dispute last year .Guyana and Venezuela signed the protocol of Port of Spain in 1968.
Commonwealth leaders at last weekend’s CHOGM have praised the efforts of Guyana [...]
Mabbing ducks Gambian controversy
Manning ducks Gambia controversy
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has ducked the controversy involving Gambian President Yayha Jammeh who reportedly threatened to kill persons associated with human rights groups in his country.
Responding to a question posed by a local journalist as to how CHOGM and he as chairman would address the controversial statements, Prime Minister Manning [...]
Masman Mac Farlane dazzles CHOGM opening
Trinidad and Tobago hosts its biggest ever international conference. Queen Elizabeth 11, decked off in a glittering gold outfit, addressed the CHOGM delegates on the relevance and importance of the Commonwealth.
In the 1960s Lord Kitchener sang a calypso bemoaning the fact that in Trinidad “any time is Trinidad time”.
The opening of [...]
Obama coming for CHOGM?
The US President was invited to attend the meeting by Prime Minister Patrick Manning. Manning could not say whether the US President has accepted his invitation.
United States President Barack Obama surely isn’t attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference (CHOGM).
Prime Minister Patrick Manning told the press yesterday that he had invited President Obama, [...]
Queen Elizabeth 11 arrives today
Port of Spain will be a ghost town tomorrow. Schools, Government offices and the courts will be closed.
The Royal Couple will arrive this afternoon from Bermuda, where they marked 400 years of British rule in the tiny northern Caribbean island..
Queen Elizabeth 11 will open the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference (CHOGM) [...]
The three-day CHOGM wonder
Despite assurances that there will be less restriction to the movement of citizens in Port of Spain than what occurred at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in April, people may just stay away. The Prime Minister is claiming that economic benefits from the three-day conference.
Potholes have been filled, streets resurfaced and drains [...]
Manning talks CHOGM benefits, climate change
This country will be the beneficiary of investments after next month’s CHOCHM conference. In the face of the anti-smelter movement, he talks passionately about the dangers of climate change.
Prime Minister Patrick Manning is very optimistic about economic benefits from the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference (CHOGM).
The Prime Minister expressed such optimism when [...]
Businessmen urged to sponsor CHOGM forum
The CHOGM talk shop is a mere month away. The Prime Minister said it presented business opportunities to businessmen.
The business community has been urged to sponsor part of the Commonwealth Business forum aspect of the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference (CHOGM) scheduled for next month.
The conference will be the prelude to [...]
$500m belt loosening for CHOGM
Another big summit.People feel money could be better spent on dealing with flood damage.
Pedestrians stopped moving and stood at attention as the band began playing the Trinidad and Tobago National Anthem at Independence Square on Friday morning.
The occasion was a People’s meeting during which speakers told the audience about preparations for the Commonwealth Heads of [...]
The Queen gets special security for CHOGM
Will there be security overkill for the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference as there was for the Fifth Summit of the Americas? Thankfully, it will not be attended by the United States
The rank and file police have threatened not to provide security for the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) conference but National [...]