As the UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion pre­pares to de­liv­er its first na­tion­al bud­get, key busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions like the T&T Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­tries (TTC­SI) and Am­cham T&T have pre­sent­ed a uni­fied vi­sion for a di­ver­si­fied and re­silient econ­o­my.

Last month, I wrote on “When Di­rec­tors must say no” cit­ing the SporTT v Padding­ton judg­ment, where Jus­tice Ricky Rahim re­mind­ed us that “boards of state en­ter­pris­es are not rub­ber stamps.” That case, which re­sult­ed in di­rec­tors be­ing held li­able for their fail­ure to scru­ti­nise min­is­te­r­i­al in­struc­tions sig­nalled what should be the end of an era of pas­sive or po­lit­i­cal­ly-syco­phan­tic board­rooms.

Im­proved da­ta col­lec­tion and in­formed car­bon pric­ing are the keys to re­duc­ing the po­ten­tial im­pact of the Car­bon Bor­der Ad­just­ment Mech­a­nisms in the UK, EU, and pos­si­bly even the Unit­ed States.

He is the man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Caribbean Chem­i­cal, a com­pa­ny found­ed by his fa­ther, Joe Pires Snr in 1966.

Kei­th Bel­grove, the fifth-gen­er­a­tion leader of Bel­groves Fu­ner­al Home, of­fered a deeply per­son­al and re­flec­tive ac­count of his fam­i­ly’s lega­cy that be­gan well be­fore T&T gained in­de­pen­dence in 1962.

In a no­tice post­ed on so­cial me­dia, the restau­rant ex­plained to its pa­trons, “Af­ter count­less milk­shakes, siz­zling grills, and juke­box tunes, we have made the bit­ter­sweet de­ci­sion to close our doors. Our last meal will be served on Au­gust 31 (to­mor­row).

Two years af­ter a suc­cess­ful list­ing on the Ja­maican Stock Ex­change, Trinida­di­an im­porter and dis­trib­u­tor AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings (AS­BH) was of­fi­cial­ly list on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change TTSE).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has an­nounced the re­tire­ment of gen­er­al man­ag­er Chrisal­ston Belle, ef­fec­tive to­mor­row af­ter a 33-year ca­reer with the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Lo­cal ce­ment man­u­fac­tur­er Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL) has gen­er­at­ed close to US$4 mil­lion in for­eign ex­change earn­ings dur­ing the month of Ju­ly, a his­toric achieve­ment that un­der­scores TCL’s grow­ing re­gion­al foot­print and its piv­otal role in T&T’s man­u­fac­tur­ing land­scape.

Multi­na­tion­al pay­ment card ser­vices com­pa­ny, Visa, yes­ter­day said that T&T is still a pri­or­i­ty mar­ket in the Caribbean for its op­er­a­tions, de­spite the con­sis­tent re­duc­tion in for­eign ex­change spend­ing lim­its on cred­it cards by banks in this coun­try.

As T&T deep­ens its en­gage­ment in cross-bor­der hy­dro­car­bon de­vel­op­ment, re­cent geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela cast a long shad­ow over projects cen­tral to T&T’s en­er­gy fu­ture.

In a pre­vi­ous ar­ti­cle, the En­er­gy Cham­ber ex­am­ined em­ploy­ment da­ta trends with­in the en­er­gy sec­tor. This high­light­ed that, de­spite its crit­i­cal role in dri­ving eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty, the sec­tor em­ploys on­ly about 2 per cent of the work­force.