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Trinidad & Tobago: Working for the Tourist Dollar?

Categories: Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, Development, Economics & Business, Education, Ideas, Media & Journalism, Migration & Immigration, Travel, Youth

The Liming House [1] is incensed by a campaign from Virgin Atlantic designed to “help the Caribbean”: “Both Virgin and the Travel Foundation appear to think that the only opportunities for ‘disadvantaged youth’ in the Caribbean are in ‘craft making, beekeeping and fishing.’ Gosh, development has just passed those backward-but-smiling natives right by!”