Trinidad

(Dive Travel Business News - Sept 6, 2011) -- In an effort to combat drug-related violence, Trinidad has extended its sate of emergency (SOE) and curfew for three more months. A nightly 8-hour curfew was first imposed on Aug 21, 2011 in direct response to a wave of violent crime linked to drug trafficking that included the murder of 11 people over a 48-hour period. Government security forces had already been fighting the illegal drug trade, that culminated in a multi- million-dollar bust at the island's international airport in last month. 

Trinidad is a major transhipment point of cocaine. Colombian and Mexican drug dealers who had been fighting for drug turf locally were set to go on a bloodbath, following the seizure of cocaine worth $22 million at Piarco International Airport on August 16, five days before the declaration of the state of emergency. read more »

(Dive Travel Business News - May 3, 2010) -- As of May 1, 2010, Air Jamaica has been taken over by Caribbean Airlines, the state-owned airline of Trinidad and Tobago. The Trinidadian Government will invest $50 million in the airline and retain Air Jamaica's  seven routes and 1,000 employees.

Caribbean Airlines will continue to fly Air Jamaica’s 140 weekly flights between Montego Bay and Kingston to Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, New York Kennedy, Philadelphia and Toronto. Caribbean Airlines expects to announce other routes soon. Tickets issued by Air Jamaica before May 1 will be honored, as will frequent-flyer miles. 

During a transition period, which is expected to take between six and 12 months, the company will be called Caribbean Airlines Air Jamaica Transition Ltd. Air Jamaica’s fleet will retain its logo during the transition. The Jamaican Government will have a 16 per cent share in Caribbean Airlines: Air Jamaica will keep its equipment and offices at the airports in Jamaica. read more »

(TravelPulse.com - January 4, 2010) -- Each year, from March 1 to Aug. 31, approximately 6,000 of the world’s largest marine turtles, the leatherback, make the journey to the shores of Trinidad & Tobago to lay the eggs that will carry on the next generation of this critically endangered species. With a careful approach to the preservation of one of nature’s most ancient mariners, the leatherback conservation project in Trinidad & Tobago has grown to become the second largest nesting colony in the world. In addition, the project supports more than 80 percent of all leatherback sea turtle nesting in the insular Caribbean Sea. read more »