Business Newsday 17 Hrs Ago CNG pump and storage area at the NP gas station on Rushworth Street, San Fernando. File photo – RECENT reports of the unavailability of compressed natural gas (CNG) at some service stations raise the question: are natural gas vehicles still the future? Some drivers report that there has been no […]
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Business Newsday 14 Hrs Ago Vessels in dock at the Caricom jetty in Port of Spain. Intra-regional trade is vital to food sustainability of Caribbean countries. PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI – Reuben Robertson, FAO Representative for Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname On the afternoon of Monday, February 15, I stepped off a jetty in St […]
Business Ria Chaitram 11 Hrs Ago TT polymer bank notes. The International Finance Centre of TT is promoting greater use of financial technology to move the country to a cashless society. File photo – Digitisation has been the talk of the town as governments, companies, businesses and individuals seek new ways to carry out transactions […]
Business Newsday 9 Hrs Ago In this March 2020 file photo, water spouts from a broken WASA main on St Francois Valley Road, Belmont. – DIANA MAHABIR-WYATT Every business organisation, every employed person. Every customer, every consumer in TT depends for economic and for physical survival on WASA. Every hospital, every medical facility every pandemic […]
Business Carla Bridglal 5 Hrs Ago Hadco Group co-CEO John Hadad, left, and National Steel Symphony Orchestra director Akua Leith greet each other for an interview about Musical Instruments of TT, a steelpan facility. PHOTOS BY AYANNA KINSALE – Akua Leith has a dream. The young pannist has a vision to capitalise on Trinidad and […]
Business Rachael Espinet An Hour Ago A sorrel fruit on a pile of seeds. The National Seed Bank allows the public to pick the flesh off the fruit and collects the seed to grow at its site in Chaguaramas. – Long past the Christmas season, people were able to pick sorrel for free last month […]
Business Carla Bridglal Thursday 11 February 2021 Trinidad-born Dr Asher Williams is the first black presidential post-doctoral research fellow at Cornell University. – Dr Asher Williams is the first black presidential post-doctoral research fellow at Cornell University, a prestigious Ivy League school in Ithaca, New York. “I didn’t even realise until I arrived and people […]
News Carla Bridglal Saturday 13 February 2021 Customers after shopping at Massy Stores Supermarket, Westmoorings. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB – The Massy group recorded a $188 million profit for the first quarter of fiscal 2021 (ended December 2020), 13 per cent more than the same period last year. In its first quarter unaudited financial report, […]
News Carla Bridglal Saturday 13 February 2021 TTMA president Franka Costelloe – As much as it hopes to host a hybrid physical and virtual event for this year’s Trade and Investment Convention (TIC), the TT Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) is prepared to go completely digital if necessary. The association launched its 22nd annual flagship business networking […]
News Ryan Hamilton-Davis Wednesday 17 February 2021 Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE Any consideration of an intra-regional stock exchange must take into account how such an exchange would help local markets, Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon said Wednesday. Speaking at a virtual panel discussion titled A Caribbean Business Forum: Establishing […]