‘DG Shipping guidelines for granting licence to LNG vessels should be kept in abeyance'

Keeping in mind the continued shortfall in domestic gas production and the mounting demand for gas, an inter-Ministerial Committee has pitched for flexibility in transportation of LNG and keeping in abeyance the guidelines of Director-General (Shipping) for grant of licence to LNG vessels.

The three-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2011 ended Sunday endorsing the importance of taking urgent action on climate change and global food crisis.
Reflecting on the unique nature of the Commonwealth, a voluntary association which brings together 53 (Fiji's membership remained suspended) developing and developed nations from six continents, the CHOGM 2011 held under the theme 'Building National Resilience, Building Global Resilience' adopted a 17-point communique.

In the summer of 2007, Shell officials at the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago were in a spot of bother. Business was fine for the oil company and environmentalists and other usual gadflies

Hundreds of turtles have laid eggs on the shores of the Trinidad beach. This is the most unusual event in the history of this beach. "Turtles have always nested here, but never more than four or five

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Caribbean agriculture has been laid low by a large variety of pests and a series of hurricanes and drought. "We have a crisis in agriculture in the Caribbean," admits Hayden Blades,