TRINIDAD EXPRESS
Manning pleased as big opening day draws near
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has expressed his satisfaction with the Summit Village, which was officially opened to the public Monday.
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Prime Minister Patrick Manning has expressed his satisfaction with the Summit Village, which was officially opened to the public Monday.
The issues affecting some 50 million of the region's employees will be discussed in a "worker specific forum" to be held at the University of the West Indies' St Augustine Campus today.
Business and consumer spending has stalled in Port of Spain during the past week, and now there are fears of million-dollar losses on the opening day of the Fifth Summit of the Americas tomorrow.
Trinidad and Tobago has received very poor scores on a performance index on the implementation of mandates from the last four Summits of the Americas.
President Barack Obama plans to tell Latin American leaders later this week that the U.S. is willing to discuss how to improve relations with Havana, but wants Cuba to take steps toward democracy before it is reintegrated into the Western hemisphere's economic and political institutions.
President of the Network of Nongovernmental Organisations (NGOs), Hazel Brown, wants the Government to release the latest version of the draft declaration that will be signed by the heads of States at the Fifth Summit of the Americas at the weekend.
More than 700 people were safely evacuated from Tower C at the International Financial Complex (IFC) yesterday, Acting Assistant Chief Fire Officer Raymond Cooseelal said yesterday.
President Barack Obama plans to tell Latin American leaders later this week that the U.S. is willing to discuss how to improve relations with Havana, but wants Cuba to take steps toward democracy before it is reintegrated into the Western hemisphere's economic and political institutions.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled for November will see similar security restrictions like this week's Fifth Summit of the Americas.
A dispute over how to treat Cuba and the Castro brothers who have run it for 50 years has spilled into the open as President Obama prepares to meet with Latin American leaders at the Summit of the Americas.