Search Results for: Trinidad and Tobago

BY ALEX SMALES
IN the Caribbean’s key capital of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the branch of six-outlet chain RIK bookstores told the Bookseller it had sold more than “1,000 copies on the opening day,” with customers queuing for sales.…

BY ALEX SMAILES, in Port of Spain, Trinidad
BRITISH cruise ships are planning to return to Trinidad after pulling out due to a report of planned terrorist attacks against UK nationals from Islamic groups on the island. The two companies – P&O cruises and Princess Cruises – made the decision after information from the British Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO).…

Keith Nuthall
A SPECIAL conference on settling a number of maritime border disputes in the Caribbean has been launched, which could help develop international law regarding the effect of uninhabited island on establishing exclusive economic zones.

One wrangle is between Venezuela and the Caribbean island state of St Kitts and Nevis, which has been protesting about maritime boundary treaties concluded by the south American state regarding the so-called Isla Aves; they grant the islands full territorial sea status, including an exclusive economic zone, or continental shelf.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TALISMAN Energy Inc. are in talks with Asian companies and Saudi princes interested in buying the firm’s controversial Sudanese oil assets, reports the London Financial Times.

It says Jim Buckee, the companies’ CEO, claimed “issues would be resolved by Christmas,” and that projects in Malaysia and Trinidad would replace Sudanese oil production, which contributes 11 per cent, of Talisman’s worldwide output.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
TALISMAN Energy Inc. has announced that it has made a substantial oil discovery in Trinidad, which could give the Canadian oil giant another profitable operations area. The company said that a 14-foot section of a 933-foot hydrocarbon column had produced 3,000 barrels-a-day in testing.…