TriniNews

24/08/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- For centuries, African women have been at the center of historical movements. The diaspora and enslaved communities in Africa have successfully challenged dominant power structures in order to shift the global realities of Black people, from empowering enslaved....

23/08/2022

Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- As Haiti's central bank reported a 10-year high in inflation, thousands of Haitians demonstrated around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices. In Port-au-Prince and some other areas, protesters set up burning barricades, an...

18/08/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- Among the products we use every day, Shea butter is an essential component. It is found in virtually all cosmetics and medicines. The Shea tree, also called Vitellaria paradoxa, produces Shea butter. For centuries now, people across the world have been using She...

08/07/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- Caracas, Venezuela, is one of the few cities in the region that is cheaper than Kingston, Jamaica, according to a cost of living estimator that compares living costs with New York and other regions. Jamaica ranks cheapest /Image, IS/ Jamaica ranks among the chea...

07/07/2022

Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- In the early hours of this day July 7, 2021, Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated by a hit squad that included Haitians and Colombians, according to the National Police of Haiti. A year after the attack, chaos have only gotten worse in the impoveri...

05/07/2022

Avellon Williams HAVANA, CUBA- According to recent reports, Cuban armed forces and migrant smugglers have engaged in a series of shootouts, showing that organized crime groups are shifting tactics between the Caribbean island and the United States in an effort to traffic more people. /Image, MM/ Cub...

05/07/2022

Avellon Williams RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL- For almost 200 years, enslaved Africans buried in Rio de Janeiro have been forgotten and buried. Now, it serves as a museum. It was discovered in the 1990s during the renovation of an abandoned house in Rio de Janeiro, and it sits in the city's downtown area....

04/07/2022

Avellon Williams JAMAICA- Upon landing in Kenya last week for his first-ever performance, seven-time Jamaica Festival Song winner Eric Donaldson received royal treatment. At the Carnivore grounds, Donaldson will perform at the Reggae-themed Umoja Splash Festival. According to a Nairobi City County r...

01/07/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- People often hear, or assume, that relationships are good for their health, longevity, and life expectancy. As a general rule, that's true. However, when a relationship is bad, it's not so true. There is no doubt that not all relationships are healthy, regardles...

30/06/2022

Avellon Williams HAVANA, CUBA- Gambian ambassador to Cuba H.E. Dr. Kujejatou K.B. Manneh emphasized the importance of Expocaribe 2022 for trade and cooperation with her country and other African countries. /Image, CD/ After describing the event that ended in Cuba on Sunday, and after learning about....

29/06/2022

Avellon Williams BAHAMAS- To help deal with the impact of the significant rise in energy prices on the global market, the Bahamas' Prime Minister, Phillip Davis, joined his Antigua & Barbuda counterpart Gaston Browne in calling on the United States to lift its embargo that prevents Venezuela from ex...

28/06/2022

Avellon Williams KAMPALA, UGANDA- Uganda is in the spotlight again and this time it is with shining gold. A deposit of 31 million tonnes of gold ore was recently discovered in the country, with 320,000 tonnes of extractable pure gold estimated to be available. Gold supply chain in Uganda /Image, SN,...

28/06/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- In addition to environmental wins, the rights of marginalised groups have made significant gains in Latin America, with Cuba celebrating LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 history month for the first time, and a court ruling that affects the Southern border of the United Stat...

27/06/2022

Avellon Willians HAVANA, CUBA- Anita Among, the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, has praised Cuba's continued support for Uganda's development programmes. In a meeting with Mr. Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, at Hotel Africana in Kampala on Sunday, Ms. Among said, “...

27/06/2022

Avellon Williams COLOMBIA- Francia Marquez, a single mother, and former cleaner, won many over as she and President-elect Gustavo Petro were elected to reshape South America. It is perhaps the greatest rags to freedom story in some time that Colombia has voted in its first-ever Black woman Vice Pres...

24/06/2022

Avellon Williams BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS- Neville 'Sheep' Smith, territorial at-large representative and Deputy Speaker, has encouraged residents to support small businesses since big businesses bank elsewhere, among other things. Support small businesses /Image, SF/ In the House of Assembly (HOA), S...

24/06/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- In response to the current food security crisis exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission today proposed mobilizing €600 million from the reserves of the European Development Fund. /Image, CTLD/ Africa, the Caribbean, and Pacific (AC...

24/06/2022

23/06/2022

Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- Gunshots erupted from heavy automatic weapons across the capital and neighboring areas of Haiti on Monday, sending scores of people into a state of panic. A gang leader had vowed to cause chaos in certain areas days before ninth-graders began their annual stat...

21/06/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- He is hoping to attract 5,000 visitors by the end of the year after he opens a s*x history museum located on Samford Road near Piarco Airport, on June 23. Sexologist and Therapist Dr Giriraj Ramnanan also known by many as “Dr Raj.” “Trini Erotic Museum”,...

21/06/2022

Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH) has launched a mortgage lending program, called "10-10-20," that aims to help Haitians build earthquake-resistant homes. “The objective is to boost the real estate sector of the country,” Jean Armand Mondellis, a BRH exe...

20/06/2022

Avellon Williams TURKS & CAICOS- An upward trend in economic ties between Africa and the Caribbean was seen this week as the region's premier financial institutions-the African Development Bank and Caribbean Development Bank advanced their cooperation. President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina /Image, ADB/ Dur...

18/06/2022

Avellon Williams KINGSTON, JAMAICA- With tourism on the rise, stakeholders are recognizing an increase in tourists coming to the region for ma*****na tourism. /Image, HJ/ Specifically, ma*****na tourism entails travel involving ma*****na or having a ma*****na component. The ma*****na tourism industr...

17/06/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- Researchers revealed on Monday they had mapped the brain network linked to addiction by studying long-time smokers who abruptly quit after suffering brain lesions. It is hoped that the research will provide a target for future treatments to work towards in the f...

16/06/2022

14/06/2022

Avellon Williams KINGSTON, JAMAICA- Privy Council of the United Kingdom will soon decide whether a law in Trinidad and Tobago prohibits bail for murder suspects, which could have implications on efforts by the Jamaican Andrew Holness-led administration to enact similar provisions. As Jamaica's court...

13/06/2022

Avellon Williams CASTRIES, ST LUCIA – The ministry of commerce, manufacturing, business development, cooperatives, and consumer affairs announced that it has been experiencing a shipping delay of brown and refined sugar due to supply chain issues. "Global supply chain disruptions are causing consu...

10/06/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- The United Nations warned on Thursday that poor countries will suffer the most from the global food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine since they will have to pay more for less food. As the Ukraine conflict pushes up grain and cereal prices, the global food imp...

09/06/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- Caribbean Immunisation Technical Advisory Group (CITAG) has notified Caribbean Ministers of Health and Chief Medical Officers of a substantial decline in childhood vaccination coverage in Caribbean countries during COVID-19. CITAG says the number of unvaccinated...

08/06/2022

Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- Performing with local artists in early July 2022, South African singer and songwriter Nomcebo Zikode is expected to grace our shores to personally engage in the creative process for her soca-afro dance productions. Nomcebo will be in Trinidad and Tobago for Carn...