Author: Corey Connelly

BELGROVE’S Funeral Home CEO Keith Belgrove is hoping cremations can soon be done in Tobago. He was delivering the feature address at a function on August 29 to commemorate Belgrove’s 136th anniversary at its Tobago headquarters in Lambeau. Belgrove’s opened its doors to the Tobago public 11 years ago. Recalling the strides the funeral home […]

TTUTA Tobago officer Bradon Roberts says a significant number of students who wrote this year’s Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) performed poorly. So he believes there is need for an urgent intervention to address the problem. “The CXC results provides great concern as well as great hope,” he told Newsday on August 28. For those who […]

THA SECRETARY of Health, Wellness and Social Protection Dr Faith BYisrael says the division has taken a deliberate decision, for now, to not do any widespread insecticide fogging to contain the spread of the dengue virus in Tobago. She said fogging can affect the island’s agriculture sector and the natural environment. To date, the Ministry […]

TOBAGO Chamber of Industry and Commerce president Curtis Williams says stakeholders are overwhelmed by Superior Hotels Ltd’s plan to offer shares to Tobagonians in the proposed Marriott-brand hotel project at Rocky Point. The project’s developer, John Aboud, made the offer during a meeting with Tobago businessmen, hoteliers and representatives from several organisations at Mt Irvine […]

PATRICIA Nicholson-Richards has never backed away from a challenge. Sure, she’s encountered situations where her resolve was put to the test. But she’s never felt the need to throw her hands up in despair. A social media co-ordinator with the Office of the Chief Secretary (OCS), Tobago House of Assembly, Nicholson-Richards recalled an occasion some […]

TOBAGO Chamber of Industry and Commerce president Curtis Williams says Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) has assured that the island will have additional flights for its October carnival. The Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, he added, also said there will be additional sailings to the island throughout the period. The carnival, now in its third […]

TOBAGO Chamber of Industry and Commerce president Curtis Williams is calling for a thorough investigation into the fire which broke out onboard the MV Cabo Star at the Port of Port of Spain on August 20. In a statement, the Trinidad and Tobago Inter-Island Transportation Co Ltd (TTIT) said it is investigating the incident, which […]

CHIEF Secretary Farley Augustine says the THA intends to create a system through which those in the accommodation and transportation sectors can put into a database everyone that comes to rent a room or a car on the island. Augustine announced the initiative on August 8 during a news conference at the Shaw Park Cultural […]

MINISTER in the Ministry of National Security Keith Scotland says he is eager to “buckle down to some work” in Tobago. Scotland is expected to meet with THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, head of the Tobago Division, ACP Collis Hazel and other security officials on August 12 and 13. High on the agenda during his […]

DESPITE criticism in some quarters, THA Secretary of Tourism, Culture, Antiquities and Transportation Tashia Burris has hailed this year’s Tobago Heritage Festival as a resounding success. “I feel we knocked it out of the park this year,” she told reporters during African Emancipation Day celebrations at Store Bay on August 1. For the first time […]