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News  T&T;’s Newest Museum opens in Moruga

Moruga, home of the world famous Scorpion pepper, now boasts Trinidad and Tobago’s newest museum.  More than 300 pieces of Trinidad and Tobago’s history were on display at the opening of the Moruga Museum on Saturday 30th November, 2013. Archaeologist Eric Lewis, who spent the last 17 years collecting and researching the items, said it was with a great sense of pride that he commissioned the museum for all of Trinidad and Tobago to visit and learn the history of their ancestors.

Lewis began collecting items when he was 11-years-old and amassed an impression collection of fossils, flints, axe heads, old street signs, agricultural tools and pieces from East Indian, European and American history, which are on display at the museum which is located at #40 Grand Chemin, Moruga. The archaeologist is also a founding member of the St Vincent Ferrer Society (SVFS) which has assisted in revitalising Moruga’s St Peter’s Day celebrations in collaboration with the Grand Chemin Fishing Association and the Moruga 500 Committee. The SVFS commissioned and constructed a 30-foot St Peter’s Monument at the Moruga beachfront in 2012.

For more information on the Moruga Museum, or to plan a visit, go to morugamuseum1.wordpress.com or call 1-868-320-3108.

Ministry of Tourism Streams Live Tourism Television - April 18th, 2011 Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Tourism will usher in a new era in Trinidad and Tobago’s tourism sector with the debut of Tourism Television on April 19, 2011. Streaming live via the worldwide web at www.tourism.gov.tt, the first instalment of Tourism Television will feature a Tourism Breakfast Morning seminar hosted by the Ministry of Tourism at the Leon Agostini Conference Hall, Chamber Building, Columbus Circle, Westmoorings. Minister of Tourism Dr the Honourable Rupert Griffith, will be the featured speaker at the interactive seminar which is aimed at raising tourism awareness within the business community and increasing support for the industry. Also delivering speeches at the seminar will be His Excellency Malay Mishra, the Indian High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago and Ms Catherine Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Following the presentation by Minister Griffith, which will focus on the government’s new vision for the tourism sector, investment incentives that will regulate the sector and new marketing and public relations plans that will drive increased visitor arrivals, there will be question and answer session. The live streaming of Tourism Television can be accessed at www.tourism.gov.tt on April 19.