Isn’t she cute? Our “Got Mango” girl is five year old Leah-Garie, the niece of Celina Celestine, one of our members. Little Leah-Garie so bravely posed for photographs for our mango festival blitz. She really enjoyed eating that mango and provided us with many beautiful photos from which to choose for our Mango Festival newspaper […]
Training provided to have a multiplier effect on productivity and sustained economic growth, guided by rural women micro-entrepreneurs across the Caribbean.Thirty rural women micro-entrepreneurs from 12 countries across the Caribbean region have benefited from an important training exercise that will allow them to attain greater gender equality and further exploit business opportunities in an effort […]
Last Saturday (July 3, 2010) we had the opportunity to promote the Trinidad and Tobago Mango Festival on New York radio – WBAI! Gia (NRWP), Kathryn (IICA), Yolande Selman (Tourism Development Company) and Brian Cockburn (UWI) – all members of the planning committee for the festival, participated in a 30 minute interview with the host of […]
Did you know that the succulent Julie mango really comes from Trinidad even though the world’s mango family was really born in India? At first blush, it sounds like the story of indentured labour, but in truth, when you think about the varieties of mango that have sprung up wherever there is warm, dry weather […]