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The article announces the university status change of Cocoa Research Unit (CRU) into Cocoa Research Centre (CRC) after fifty years of its existence operating in the vicinity of University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine campus in Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. It notes that CRU was once a Cocoa Research Scheme under the Imperial College of Agriculture. It states that CRU has been supporting and working the global cocoa operations industry like propagation and shade for 82 years.

The article offers information on the history and developments in anthurium. It states that anthurium cultivation as a crop started in Trinidad and Tobago in 1915. It says that new colour development and resistance to nematodes bacterial diseases is part of a plan to make the anthurium cut-flower industry in Trinidad and Tobago more competitive. It adds that University of West Indies (UWI) researchers have collaborated with Kairi Blooms Ltd. to develop bacterial resistant anthurium varieties.