At the 2025 Caribbean Con­fed­er­a­tion of Cred­it Unions (CC­CU) an­nu­al in­ter­na­tion­al con­ven­tion, di­rec­tor of the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit of T&T Nigel Stod­dard played a key role in shap­ing the con­ver­sa­tion around com­pli­ance and gov­er­nance.

Pres­i­dent of the In­dus­tri­al Court Heather Seale be­lieves that changes in T&T’s labour laws must re­flect the changes in the econ­o­my and oth­er so­cial and tech­no­log­i­cal trends.

This is the fifth edi­tion of a sev­en-part se­ries fea­tur­ing sec­ondary school stu­dents pro­vid­ing their thoughts on En­vi­ron­men­tal, So­cial, and Gov­er­nance (ESG) is­sues as part of the HAR­CON Na­tion­al Youth Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and ESG Pi­lot Project

Eu­ro­pean Union am­bas­sador to T&T, Pe­ter Cavendish, says in terms of this coun­try’s eco­nom­ic fu­ture there is a need to re­bal­ance the coun­try’s en­er­gy pro­duc­tion with the out­put of oth­er prod­ucts.

In the past two months, sev­er­al no­table car brands such as Mi­ni (Ace­man), BYD (Shark), Pro­ton (eMas7) and even roll-on, roll off deal­er HSM Mar­ket­ing (Rid­dara RD6) have in­tro­duced new elec­tric and hy­brid ve­hi­cle mod­els to the mar­ket.

Pri­vate health­care provider, Med­corp, said last night that its Ini­tial Pub­lic Of­fer­ing (IPO) of 350,000 or­di­nary shares at $48 a share was ful­ly sub­scribed and raised the $16.8 mil­lion ex­pect­ed.

TCL Group’s Ja­maican sub­sidiary, Caribbean Ce­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (CC­CL) has suc­cess­ful­ly com­mis­sioned its US$42 mil­lion de­bot­tle­neck project at its Rock­fort fa­cil­i­ty in East Kingston. 

There has been a drop in car loans but an in­crease in bor­row­ing for re­al es­tate in­vest­ments ac­cord­ing to the Cen­tral Bank’s Mon­e­tary Pol­i­cy Com­mit­tee (MPC).

Ear­li­er this year, I met a young grad­u­ate who had spent the en­tire sum­mer search­ing for a job that matched her ed­u­ca­tion—with­out suc­cess. As the weeks passed and her op­tions nar­rowed, she ap­plied to a lo­cal meat shop, hop­ing to find some form of em­ploy­ment. But even there, she was turned away—she was “overqual­i­fied” to pack chick­en legs.

SME en­tre­pre­neurs face nu­mer­ous chal­lenges in build­ing a suc­cess­ful en­ter­prise, and one of them stands out from the crowd. An un­known brand is one ob­sta­cle to scal­ing the busi­ness. How do you, as an en­tre­pre­neur, craft a brand strat­e­gy and break out from your mar­ket­ing Al­ca­traz?

A cou­ple events oc­curred last week, which are very much re­lat­ed, but on face val­ue may not seem to be. Last Wednes­day, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo pre­sent­ed his mid year bud­get re­view. The fol­low­ing day, a pub­lic hol­i­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar stood shoul­der to shoul­der with trade union lead­ers at the Labour Day plat­form in Fyz­abad.

This sim­ple yet pow­er­ful anal­o­gy per­fect­ly cap­tures the essence of two es­sen­tial busi­ness pil­lars. While mar­ket­ing is the strat­e­gy that catch­es at­ten­tion and in­spires ac­tion, brand­ing is the emo­tion­al glue that builds trust and keeps cus­tomers com­ing back.