Trinidad & Tobago: Return on Investment?  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“Trinidadians always buy into this idea that hosting something will get us lots of free press.  Thing is: no-one really cares all that much who hosts the summit. Perhaps you get a few extra googles…but the idea that these things pay for themselves is delusional”: Club Soda and Salt is not convinced that the twin island nation's hosting of the Fifth Summit of the Americas was a sound idea.