The founder and now pres­i­dent-elect, Abrahim Ali of the San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion who has pre­vi­ous­ly served in that ca­pac­i­ty sev­er­al terms, will once again car­ry the man­tle for the 2023/2024 tenure.

Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice Min­is­ter Fos­ter Cum­mings is en­cour­ag­ing young en­tre­pre­neurs to con­tin­ue striv­ing for suc­cess.

Pres­i­dent of The Hu­man Re­source Man­age­ment As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (HRMATT), Cavelle Joseph St-Omer, says greater dis­cus­sion of strat­e­gy be­tween a com­pa­ny and its em­ploy­ees is key to avoid un­for­tu­nate stand-offs, as seen at Caribbean Air­lines (CAL).

Dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion must be in­clud­ed in the cre­ation of a Health, Safe­ty, Se­cu­ri­ty and En­vi­ron­ment (HSSE) cul­ture in every or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Guyana’s oil re­serves, on­ly dis­cov­ered in 2015, are vast. They are es­ti­mat­ed at 11 bil­lion bar­rels of re­cov­er­able oil — one of the high­est lev­els per capi­ta world­wide.

I would like to start this com­men­tary on the is­sue of whether the pi­lots of ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) should re­ceive high­er salaries by stat­ing that, as far as I am con­cerned, the fact that 93 pi­lots called in sick from Au­gust 18 to Au­gust 20, con­sti­tutes in­dus­tri­al ac­tion.

Pe­ru’s Am­bas­sador to T&T, David Fran­cis­co Mála­ga who de­scribed the coun­try as one of the re­gion’s top agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­ers, wants to see in­creased trade with T&T in this area.

The reg­u­la­tor of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­cu­ri­ties in­dus­try, the T&T Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) is once again with­out a chair, fol­low­ing the un­ex­plained de­par­ture of Enid Zephyrine, a se­nior pub­lic ser­vant in the Min­istry of Fi­nance.

Last week, Tourism Trinidad shared the Tourism Stake­hold­ers In­for­ma­tion Month­ly Bul­letin, high­light­ing sta­tis­tics on the num­ber of vis­i­tors to Trinidad and To­ba­go for the up un­til the end of Ju­ly.

One econ­o­mist says the Cen­tral Bank’s Ju­ly Eco­nom­ic Bul­letin does not pro­vide suf­fi­cient in­for­ma­tion to com­fort­ably pre­dict that there would be any sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ment in the en­er­gy and non-en­er­gy sec­tors as fis­cal 2023 draws to a close.

The amount of for­eign ex­change con­vert­ed by en­er­gy com­pa­nies op­er­at­ing in T&T de­clined by 18 per cent in the first sev­en months of 2023, ac­cord­ing to the Cen­tral Bank’s Ju­ly Eco­nom­ic Bul­letin.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) is ex­press­ing con­cern over com­ments made by the Min­is­ter of Labour, Stephen Mc Clashie, last Fri­day where he deemed the 10 per cent wage in­crease re­quest­ed by the T&T Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) as un­re­al­is­tic.