Thursday, February 7, 2013
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran, left, and Programme Director of the Caribbean Local Development Project (Cariled) Dr Naresh Singh, right, sign an agreement at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Waterfront Centre, Port-Of-Spain. Looking on in the background are Local Government Minister Surujattan Rambachan, left, and new Canadian High Commissioner to T&T Gerard Latulippe. The agreement allows Cariled to set up its offices in T&T to manage its Caribbean operations from 2012 to 2018.
Cariled is a Can$23.2 million programme, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), to stimulate sustainable local economic development (LED) through the strengthening of competencies and capacities in local governments or local agencies of central government in several Caribbean Commonwealth countries. PHOTO: SHIRLEY BAHADUR
LONDON—A new report has said that scrapping the controversial Air Passenger Duty (APD), which has negatively impacted on the tourism industry throughout the Caribbean, could genera