The in­ter­est raised amongst the gen­er­al pub­lic by me­dia re­ports of the al­le­ga­tions made by Massy Group se­nior ex­ec­u­tive An­gelique Parisot-Pot­ter, re­lat­ing to a Mi­a­mi-based train­ing pro­gramme for ex­ec­u­tives of the group hav­ing ques­tion­able el­e­ments to it, in­di­cates a few ini­tial con­cerns.

First­ly, this is not a small, in­signif­i­cant cor­ner par­lour in a dis­tant vil­lage in­ter­act­ing with a few peo­ple, but rather a cor­po­ra­tion of great busi­ness ex­panse, and one cen­tral to eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ties across the re­gion; more­over, the Massy Group hav­ing al­ready start­ed on a mis­sion of tak­ing on the big, bad world of busi­ness in the USA.

Sec­ond­ly, there is a con­cern about the al­leged en­gage­ment by Massy as a cor­po­ra­tion in hav­ing its ex­ec­u­tives trained in oc­cult prac­tices. If this be so, to what pur­pose? Is such train­ing im­ple­ment­ed in Massy’s op­er­a­tions? And how does it man­i­fest it­self in its in­ter­ac­tion with its hun­dreds of thou­sands of cus­tomers?

Third­ly, does the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the oc­cult prac­tices, said to in­clude, “com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the dead and self-heal­ing with white light”, amount to un­fair com­pe­ti­tion to Massy’s ri­vals? If so, are such prac­tices go­ing to be al­low­able and ac­cept­able for all cor­po­ra­tions large and small? Is one out­come an in­sid­i­ous ex­ploita­tion of cus­tomers by the prac­tices of the com­pa­ny de­rived from the al­leged oc­cult con­nec­tion?

This is se­ri­ous busi­ness if there is any truth to the al­le­ga­tions.

It is im­por­tant to note that the board of the group has iden­ti­fied the al­le­ga­tions as be­ing “patent­ly un­true and scan­dalous.” How­ev­er, the board, un­der­stand­ing the im­pli­ca­tions of the al­le­ga­tions made by one of its se­nior ex­ec­u­tives, and know­ing the al­le­ga­tions can­not be sim­ply dis­missed with a me­dia re­lease, has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ters raised by an ex­ec­u­tive, and done so in a 13-page let­ter, not a one sheet throw-away note.

It is to be as­sumed that amongst the in­ves­ti­ga­tions will be an out­line not on­ly of the pro­gramme in which its ex­ec­u­tive man­agers are be­ing trained, but al­so in skills out­side of the pro­gramme. It must ob­vi­ous­ly be the case that a large cor­po­ra­tion like the Massy Group does not spend mon­ey with­out pur­pose.

This news­pa­per is in no po­si­tion to ar­rive at con­clu­sions on the al­le­ga­tions, true or false. But be­ing acute­ly aware of the im­por­tance of the com­pa­ny, its wide­spread na­ture not on­ly here in T&T, but al­so across the re­gion, and on the shores of the Unit­ed States, and the many con­cerns raised about the al­le­ga­tions, we have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to ask ques­tions and probe the an­swers.

At the in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el, in­for­ma­tion about the al­le­ga­tions will al­ready have reg­is­tered in the Unit­ed States with its De­part­ment of Com­merce and the In­ter­na­tion­al Trade Mis­sion In­ves­ti­ga­tions. As is well known, the USA is al­ways ready to de­fend its cor­po­ra­tions against any form of un­fair com­pe­ti­tion by in­ter­na­tion­al com­pa­nies.

If, there­fore, there is any­thing truth­ful in the al­le­ga­tions made by a vice pres­i­dent of the group, there sure­ly must be con­cerns with­in the home mar­ket amongst cus­tomers, and by cor­po­ra­tions com­pet­ing against the Massy Group, and the se­ri­ous eth­i­cal is­sues in­volved in the op­er­a­tions of busi­ness es­tab­lish­ments.