RIO DE JANEIRO: A UN conference on the environment has opened in Rio de Janeiro, where 193 countries are participating. The global body says it’s the biggest meeting it has ever organised.

Italics: This week more than 120 Heads of State and Governments meet in Rio de Janeiro to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development. The original Rio conference 20 years ago spurred a heavy focus on the environment. But while that theme remains critical, some stakeholders make the case for a broader social focus. Director of t(...)

CEPEP Company Limited recently launched its signature project for the commemoration of the country's 50th anniversary of Independence. Just two days after World Environment Day (June 5), the agency held the launch of its tree planting exercise at the Corinth flyover located on the Solomon Hochoy Highway.

My Team Events recently took a group of 40 explorers on its second “Road Trip” for 2012. The destination was Chacachacare Island, the furthest and largest of the Bocas Islands west of Trinidad.

Colin Laird is an icon in the field of architecture, and this year for the first time in Trinidad and Tobago, Laird will exhibit sketches, landscapes and models of his most iconic structures in Trinidad and Tobago. Laird’s “Public Spaces” exhibition will run from June 28 to July 14 at the Carnival Room of the National Museum.

The Orange Field Sports Club recently held its fourth Annual Youth Cricket Programme Graduation ceremony at the Jubilee Recreation Ground in Carapichaima.

Hundreds of people turned up at Santa Rosa Racing Facility, Arima on the Labour Day holiday (June 19) fo the Tobago Day at the Races, which also included, for the first time at the racetrack, the popular Tobago Goat Race.