Tag Archives: Trinidad and Tobago

Communications to deal with the next normal

Business Newsday 2 Days Ago In this file photo, Tonya Wilson, 14, left and her best friend A’niah Taitt, 14, show their vaccination cards after receiving the Pfizer covid19 vaccine recently at Signal Hill Secondary School. Present to supervise was Tonya’s father Nigel Wilson. – PHOTO BY DAVID REID LISA-ANN JOSEPH Communication among different levels […]

Investing in young people to become next entrepreneurs

Business Newsday Reporter Yesterday Nikolai Hart Hopley with his aquaponics system at his Lambeau, Tobago home. – File Photo/David Reid There’s a lot of attention being paid to the fate of our students ahead of the reopening of the traditional school term on September 4. The covid19 pandemic continues to threaten to derail the overall […]

The paradox of freedom of association

Business Diana Mahabir-Wyatt 23 Hrs Ago Trade union leaders march during the movement’s ‘freedom day walk’ from Aranjuez savannah to Woodford Square, Port of Spain to protest against the state of the economy, unemployment, the state of emergency and mandatory vaccinations among other issues. – PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI Back in the late 1700s-early 1800s […]

Sieunarine Coosal’s success after sacrifice

Business Ria Chaitram 16 Hrs Ago Construction stalwart Sieunarine Coosal says his motivating factor and ultimate success is the ability to provide employment to thousands of people who brought a wide array of skill sets to the Coosal Group’s operations. Photo by Sureash Cholai On receiving his honorary doctorate from UWI, Sieunarine Coosal said the […]

Flow TT VP Simone Martin-Sulgan details company’s move past pandemic

Business Ria Chaitram 10 Hrs Ago Simone Martin-Sulganis the first woman to hold the position as vice president at Flow TT, with over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. – Amber Dawn Photography Flow TT has been making strides and pivoting its work model and services, according to vice president Simone Martin-Sulgan, to operate […]

Car dealers prepare for the drive to electric cars

Business Ryan Hamilton-Davis 58 Minutes Ago The fully electric Porshe Taycan at the Lifestyle Motors showroom. – PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI Stephan Semurath, salesman at Lifestyle Motors, stepped on the accelerator of the company’s fully electric Porsche Taycan and the Solomon Hochoy highway instantly turned into a blur. All 408 horses of the Porsche’s AC […]

Huawei opens call for students for Seeds for the Future programme

Business Camille Moreno Thursday 19 August 2021 Top TT Seeds for the Future 2020 student, Brandon Mohammed, receives an award from Huawei TT CEO, Jeff Jin. Photo courtesy Huawei – Huawei will soon open the call for the sixth annual staging of its Seeds for the Future programme, the company’s flagship global corporate social responsibility […]

LJ Williams Ltd reports high covid19 vaccination among staff

Business Camille Moreno Thursday 19 August 2021 Customer service representative Roxanne Scott attends to a customer at Home Store, Barataria. Eighty per cent of Home Store employees received covid19 vaccines, while 72 per cent of LJ Williams staff were vaccinated, the LJ Williams group has reported. – Photo by Ayanna Kinsale LJ Williams Ltd group […]

Addressing HIV and Aids in the workplace

Business Newsday Thursday 19 August 2021 In this 2019 file photo, then Minister of Labour and Small Enterprise Development Jennifer Baptiste Primus addresses the media during a public awareness campaign on the National Workplace Policy on HIV and AIDS at Ministry of Labour conference room Waterfront Centre in Port of Spain. HIV and Aids continue […]

Requiem for petroleum history museum, park (1999-2013)

Business Newsday Thursday 19 August 2021 The restored and extended Pointe-a-Pierre railway station, 2009. Photo courtesy the Geological Society – Geological Society The Petroleum History Museum and Park, during its short lifetime, was established on the Petrotrin compound, at the Pointe-a-Pierre Railway Station (1885) and its surrounding TGR (Trinidad Government Railway) lands. This project was […]