For­mer Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Jear­lean John has lost her $17 mil­lion un­fair dis­missal law­suit against her for­mer em­ploy­er.

First Cit­i­zens’ prof­it af­ter tax­a­tion fell by 60 per cent for the three months end­ed June 2020 when com­pared to the same pe­ri­od last year.

As chang­ing spend­ing pat­terns push com­pa­nies to e-com­merce and dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion, the Caribbean’s econ­o­my will be im­pact­ed by the change in con­sumer be­hav­iour.

When an ice cream ven­dor at the World’s Fair in St Louis, Mis­souri, USA, in 1904 ran out of pa­per cups, he was next to a waf­fle ven­dor who rolled the waf­fles in­to cones to hold the ice cream and this was where the ice-cream cone was cre­at­ed.

Late­ly, the elec­tion fight might have on­ly been be­tween the PNM and UNC. While lead­ers of both par­ties were in high bat­tle spir­its, just as their re­spec­tive spiels have deep­ened in­to crush­ing blows, COVID-19 has start­ed throw­ing punch­es in­to the elec­tion fight.