Special water taxi sailings for Trinidad Carnival 2K12
Trinidad Carnival 2012 is coming, and the national water taxi service is looking to keep you in touch with the action!
The water taxi will still run on Carnival Monday and Tuesday at 7am & 9am from San Fernando to Port of Spain. It then runs from Port of Spain to San Fernando at 4pm & 6pm. See the poster at right for more information.
And for more on getting around Trinidad & Tobago, click the link to visit the Discover T&T website. Safe sailing and masquerading, folks!
PSA: the Caribbean Men’s Internet Survey (CARIMIS)
A frequent contributor to Caribbean Beat, Cedriann J Martin, works with UNAIDS and shared this information with us about an important online study called the Caribbean Men’s Internet Survey (CARIMIS).
It’s a controversial and therefore often misunderstood and improperly documented area of social and health research – hence its critical importance for the region, not least in the effort to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and care for those already infected. Spearheaded by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Caribbean Regional Support Team (RST), the initiative involves several individuals, non-governmental organisations and partner agencies throughout the region. UNAIDS is an innovative United Nations partnership whose goal is achieving universal global access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for those who need it. Read more 
Job opportunities with Caribbean Beat & more!
Ready for a change in 2012? MEP currently has openings for Sales & Marketing Representatives for Caribbean Beat, as well as for editors and interns.
MEP partners with Piranha for full-scale recycling programme
We’re fairly tree-huggy at MEP. Over the last few years, we’ve slowly moved closer and closer to being as green a publishing company as one can be in Trinidad and Tobago. We donate as many working electronic items as we can to schools and nonprofits. We’ve recycled paper for several years with ACE Recycling (and used “draft” mode and printed on both sides as much as possible). We try to keep run the airconditioning as tepidly as possible. We’ve switched to using printing partners for our books and magazines that use more sustainable materials (paper, ink, machinery) and processes (literally saving millions of pages of paper each year).
Piranha: recycling beacon
And now, through a partnership with Piranha International – the only company in Trinidad, as far as I know, that handles virtually every form of recyclable and e-waste – we can now extend that to recycling glass, plastics, aluminium, e-waste and more.
Piranha is a company that people probably have read about in the newspapers, as they’ve formed several partnerships with other local businesses – Plastikeep, Guardian Holdings, the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, Brian MacFarlane, the Tourism Development Company, and others. Read more
New Caribbean Beat, and interview with K2K Carnival’s Norman twins
Machel Montano on the cover of Caribbean Beat issue 113 (January-February 2012)
It’s 2012, and we’ve started the year with a bang! At Discover Trinidad & Tobago’s website, we’ve just added a new interview with debutante mas band designers Karen and Kathy Norman (K2K), the ladies behind the new medium-category, all-inclusive Carnival band “The Waters – Seas of Consciousness”. Read all about them here.
Over at sister publication Caribbean Beat, we sent out our newsletter yesterday (if you haven’t already subscribed, you can view the last edition or sign up for free here), featuring all the buzz around Trinidad & Tobago Carnival, what’s happening around the region, and much more. Read more
