Tag Archives: Trinidad

NiQuan gas-to-liquids plant ‘welcome news’ for economy

Business Narissa Fraser 8 Hrs Ago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley at the opening ceremony for the NIQUAN Energy Trinidad Ltd gas-to-liquids plant on Monday – Photo courtesy the Office of the Prime Minister’s Facebook page – Kiran Singh, president of the Greater San Fernando Area Chamber of Commerce, says the opening of NiQuan Energy […]

National Lotteries spends $23m in sponsorship

News Clint Chan Tack 55 Minutes Ago NLCB sponsorship committee chairman Dwight Andrews presents a cheque to Living Water Community assistant director Rose Mary Scott on April 30, 2020. File photo – THE National Lotteries Control Board (NLCB) spent $23, 262,521 in sponsorship last year during the covid19 pandemic. NLCB officials disclosed this in a […]

NFM to increase animal feed prices by up to 14%

Business Narissa Fraser 34 Minutes Ago Dairy farmer Rishi Moonie feeds one of his cows in Waterloo. National Flour Mills on Tuesday announced an increase of three to 14 per cent in animal feed prices. File photo – NATIONAL Flour Mills Ltd has said it was “forced” to raise the price of its animal feed, […]

Business chambers worry over covid19 vaccines supply, fear Agostini’s monopoly

Business Ria Chaitram An Hour Ago A vial of AstraZeneca vaccine from a batch of 2,000 doses gifted to TT by Barbados from a shipment donated by India. – San Fernando-based business chambers are expressing concern over the acquisition of covid19 vaccines for Trinidad and Tobago after Government announced it would be getting less than […]

Leveraging social media to communicate and connect

Business Newsday Yesterday A phone displaying social media apps. Image taken from teenvogue.com – Social media platforms have become integrated into our society at a blistering rate, and in particular since the onset of covid19. We are firmly in the era of constant connectivity and instant gratification. This is now a fact of life for […]

J&K Signature Styles donates laptops, tablets to Tunapuna Secondary

Business Marshelle Haseley Yesterday J&K Signature Styles CEO Keron James with principal of Tunapuna Secondary Thecla Thomas. – Photo source J&K Signature Styles J&K Signature Styles donated 10 devices to Tunapuna Secondary School on January 29 as part of its Adopt a School programme. The devices were presented to the principal Thecla Thomas, who said […]

What’s the story you want the media to tell

Business Newsday 23 Hrs Ago Lisa-Ann Joseph, managing director of Reputation Management Caribbean. – LISA-ANN JOSEPH There is a love/hate relationship between communicators and media. From the media’s side, practitioners make the effort to keep the relationship as distanced as possible, a professional stance which allows them to keep their independence from any corporate influence […]

Small businesses must go digital to survive

Business Camille Moreno 21 Hrs Ago Makeda Antoine-Cambridge, CEO of Genesis International. – The local firm Genesis International Ltd is reaching out to small businesses to help them use technology to survive the economic downturn, deepened by the effects of the covid19 pandemic. Genesis CEO Makeda Antoine-Cambridge says the company’s Small Business Transformation Programme will […]

Seeing CNG’s future in TT

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 […]

Schooners vital to trade among Caribbean countries

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 […]