Trinidad & Tobago News

Minister: Too soon for final CHOGM cost Foreign Affairs Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon said yesterday that it was too soon to tabulate the final figure of the cost to host the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting .

CALEDONIA AIA and Joe Public, who will contest Friday's final of the Digicel Pro Bowl, will have a virtual dress-rehearsal today when they face off in the semi-final round of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation FA Trophy.

ANN Watty is the Acting Director, Social Planning and Research, Policy and Programming and Development Division, at the Ministry of Social Development.

The Queen has been determined to offer personalised fashion statements which pays tribute to her hosts on royal visits, and it was no different in Trinidad and Tobago.

December 3rd, 2009. Seventeen women from Colombia have appeared in court accused of entering Trinidad and Tobago illegally.

The lone Gurudwara Sahib in Trinidad and Tobago will have a distinguished visitor when Gursharan Kaur, the wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, visits the place on Friday, along with her daughter.

SYDNEY: Fiji will lodge an appeal against their exclusion from the 2010 Commonwealth Games with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Helping developing countries battle climate change is likely to cost New Zealand up to $50 million a year after Prime Minister John Key conceded the Government would have to contribute to a proposed US$10 billion annual fund.

FIJIAN athletes are banned from competing in next year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

MAKING HIS POINT: French President Nicolas Sarkozy gesticulates during a media conference yesterday at the International Financial Centre.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister, Kabinga Pande says Zambia will take full advantage of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit , which officially opens tomorrow in the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago, to expose the country's investment opportunities to the outside world.

Commonwealth countries are expected to make a landmark agreement on universal healthcare for almost one-third of the world's population, including free health care for women and children.

Interacting with the Indian Diaspora on the sidelines of the 21st Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting here, the feeling that comes out is that they extremely proud and have fond memories of India, its culture and traditions, despite years and decades of living away from their motherland.

KELVIN Davis believes Bartosz Bialkowski will prove to be a very safe pair of hands in goal while he is out injured.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would lobby for support for his plan to make banks pay for any future bailout at a Commonwealth summit this week.

CARIBBEAN WELCOME: Prime Minister John Key arrives at the airport in Port of Spain for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting hosted by Trinidad and Tobago.

Port of Spain, Nov.27 : SMK and SMQ. Well they might, or then again, they might not.

MANMOHAN SINGH IN THE CARIBBEAN'S 'LITTLE INDIA'; RECOLLECTIONS OF A COMMUNICATOR New Delhi : The visit of Dr Manmohan Singh to Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean has been long overdue.

Ipswich have signed striker Stern John on a month's loan from Championship rivals Crystal Palace.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago, who plays host to a meeting of Commonwealth leader beginning here Friday, drew furious criticism Thursday when he dismissed human rights as domestic issues that have no place on the summit agenda.