You may have no­ticed it but did not la­bel it. It has a name: a sim­ple but pro­found­ly im­por­tant con­cept that could de­ter­mine your en­joy­ment of life. The af­ford­abil­i­ty cri­sis is im­per­cep­ti­ble, eat­ing away at your pur­chas­ing pow­er slow­ly and re­duc­ing your abil­i­ty to take care of the next gen­er­a­tion. What can you do? Since I have been writ­ing a col­umn on en­tre­pre­neur­ship, you guessed it, I have a so­lu­tion that match­es my fo­cus.

For the last sev­er­al years, T&T has been hav­ing the same na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tion: for­eign ex­change.

Aven­ta has de­nied that it has re­ceived pref­er­en­tial treat­ment in terms of pay­ments by NIPDEC.

En­er­gy sec­tor vet­er­an Dr Ram­per­sad Moti­lal has been ap­point­ed chair­man of At­lantic LNG.

Neela Mooni­lal-Kissoon has re­signed as group deputy CEO, op­er­a­tions and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the First Cit­i­zens Group.

The board of Trinidad and To­ba­go NGL (TTNGL) is con­firm­ing that the spe­cial res­o­lu­tion passed by share­hold­ers of the com­pa­ny “fa­cil­i­tates the de­c­la­ra­tion and pay­ment of div­i­dends pur­suant to Sec­tion 55 of the Com­pa­nies Act.”

Fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions and gov­ern­ments across the Caribbean are ac­cel­er­at­ing dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion as ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) and au­toma­tion tools move from pi­lot projects in­to every­day op­er­a­tions.

The slo­gan has its roots in 1970s New York City, but the re­al­i­ty is cur­rent­ly be­ing seen around the world and on our shores.

A mul­ti-hun­dred-mil­lion-dol­lar in­vest­ment by Massy Dis­tri­b­u­tion to build a new high-tech lo­gis­tics hub at Or­ange Grove will dou­ble the com­pa­ny’s dis­tri­b­u­tion ca­pac­i­ty in T&T, ac­cord­ing to CEO James McLetchie.

En­er­gy ex­perts are not sur­prised that Chevron has reached out to T&T due to its in­fra­struc­ture and ge­og­ra­phy.

In a world that con­stant­ly de­mands more—more hours, more vis­i­bil­i­ty and more con­ces­sions of the self—Mala Bali­raj is nav­i­gat­ing the cor­po­rate land­scape of T&T by chart­ing a dif­fer­ent course: step­ping back in or­der to move for­ward.

Ma­ter­ni­ty leave poli­cies are es­sen­tial com­po­nents of labour leg­is­la­tion, shap­ing the health, well-be­ing, and eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty of fam­i­lies. In T&T, ma­ter­ni­ty leave is gov­erned by the Ma­ter­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Act, which cur­rent­ly en­ti­tles el­i­gi­ble em­ploy­ees to 14 weeks of paid ma­ter­ni­ty leave af­ter at least one year of con­tin­u­ous em­ploy­ment with an em­ploy­er (Min­istry of Labour, 2023).