Full Coverage: Trinidad and Tobago

07/27/2006 In February 2006, the aluminum manufacturing company Alcoa proposed to build a large aluminum smelter in the Chatham/Cap-de-Ville area of the southwestern peninsula, prompting criticism from the local residents and environmentalists.

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05/12/2004 Une délégation haïtienne composée de deux membres du Jury de l'UNESCO pour la Liberté de la Presse en Haïti, Michèle Pierre Louis, présidente de FOKAL (Fondation Konesans ak Libète) et de notre collaborateur Vario Sérant, également directeur de l'information à Télé Haïti, a pris part à un colloque sur la liberté de la presse et la gestion des conflits qui s'est tenu à Port Of Spain (Trinidad), du 2 au 4 mai 2004.

04/07/2004 Toco, the first and only community-based radio station in Trinidad and Tobago, received the 2003 IPDC-UNESCO Prize of $20,000. Toco Radio deals with community concerns such as parenting and early childhood education, public health, HIV/AIDS, job motivation and entrepreneurship, particularly for youth.

11/03/2003 UN Volunteer doctors are helping Trinidad and Tobago make up for skills lost when health care professionals emigrate and check deterioration in services at some of its main hospitals and clinics. The brain drain affects poorer people most as they can ill-afford costly private medical services.

01/07/2002 In their weekly news update IRINPlus highlights the positive effects of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. The supposedly highly cost-effective strategy was tested using randomised trials in Kenya, Tanzania and Trinidad, in resource poor settings. Some of the outcomes showed an increase in condom use among those who tested positive for HIV-1.

08/02/2001 Environmental campaigners have joined forces with community groups in Papua New Guinea to call on the government to act on reports that its development fund is destroying forests with serious social and environmental consequences.

06/24/2001 The Trindad and Tobago government is planning to install metal detectors in schools to prevent students from carrying lethal weapons and indulging in violence. Peer pressure, sexual abuse at home or by peers, negligent parents, and teachers who insult students, are cited among factors that have led to increasing violence in schools in this country.

05/29/2001 Alarmed at the increasing high incidence of child abuse in Trinidad and Tobago, voluntary and government outfits in the Caribbean nation have been spurned into action. One of the fist steps is to set up a hotline for children to talk about any problem.

05/24/2001 Conflicting laws governing the protection of sea turtles in Trinidad and Tobago have created a loophole that allows poachers to slaughter the critically endangered creatures when they dig beach nests for their eggs.

01/29/2001 The outcome of today's election in Tobago is anxiously awaited because of the likelihood that it could seal the fate of the twin-island Trinidad and Tobago republic.

09/18/2000 Tobagonians are keeping their fingers crossed that the lone ferry servicing the Tobago-Trinidad route does not break down again and, in the process, raise one of the country's more contentious political issues.

04/17/2000 Trinidad and Tobago has been accused of hiding its human rights record following its decision to pull out of an international law protecting abuse victims.

04/12/2000 Developing countries in the Caribbean and around the world are failing to meet ambitious year-2000 education targets set by the United Nations nearly 10 years ago.

10/19/1999 Only months after Jamaica settled a trade dispute with Barbados, its government is now threatening to bar entry to goods from Trinidad and Tobago.

07/26/1999 Residents of a wealthy Trinidadian suburb are fighting a government plan to re-name the King George V Park in memory of African slaves.

07/23/1999 Trinidad's highest appeal court - based in London - has "undermined" the Americas' human rights court by ruling that the execution of convicted murderer Anthony Briggs would not flout constitutional law, according to Amnesty International.

07/01/1999 Human rights campaigners are calling on Trinidad and Tobagos's Attorney General to make public fresh evidence which may prove the innocence of one of the Trinidad 9, executed last month.

06/22/1999 The planned execution of a death row prisoner today in Trinidad and Tobago flies in the face of international law, says Amnesty International.

06/10/1999 Trinidad's ruling party has dismissed claims that recent hangings on the island are linked to upcoming elections.