Pros and cons of TSTT

If TSTT was faced with a fully competitive environment, is the majority State-owned telecommunications company likely to continue making profits?

C&W to slim down

Learning from Jamaica

Cable & Wireless (C&W) chairman Richard Lapthorne has vowed there will not be a repeat of the Jamaican experience in Trinidad when this telecom market is eventually opened up to competition...

NCBJ head dismisses bubble claim

The recent bull run on the Jamaica Stock Exchange is not a sign of a bubble market, one of the country’s business leaders has said...

AIC to use T&T as launch pad

Jamaican billionaire Michael Lee Chin’s AIC group is seeking to use T&T as a launch pad for the rest of the Caribbean...

German conquers Web business

Online Paradise

What do designer Claudia Pegus, Janouras, Chaconia Hotel and Long Circular Mall have in common? Gunther Richter. He is the man responsible for getting them all on the Internet...

New car sales accelerate

Reflecting a vibrant local economy and a booming stock market, new car sales in T&T zoomed ahead by 24 per cent in the first four months of 2004, dealers said...

DR, T&T markets to work closely

Financial players from the Dominican Republic are looking to forge closer ties with the financial markets of T&T...

Truth about dumping

Why would any company choose to export its product below the normal value at which it is sold in the country of origin?

Dominica’s economic marathon

The godfather of Dominican economic stabilisation Swinburn Lestrade describes the path to recovery as a marathon and not a sprint...

The real Roystonia story

This week we take a necessary pause from the Caroni series to look at some of the issues arising from the furore over the Roystonia Development in Couva North...

Engaging but not enough insight

The better part of Ten Minutes from Normal is not where you might look. Karen Hughes, a former television reporter, was communication adviser to George W Bush for six years when he was governor of Texas. When he became President, she served as his counsellor and still continues to advise him from her home in Texas. She had a front-row seat to history every day. The title of the book comes from the presidential campaign trail. When approaching a town in Illinois, the train conductor announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re 10 minutes from Normal.”

Security? what security?

“Hi guys, I need to ask some questions about Outlook and Outlook Express.” “Uh-huh... Well, uhhm... we don’t really use Outlook Express.”

Service quality and training

Are companies reaping returns?

My experience is that many companies send their employees on service quality training and completely disregard the development side of training...

Mutual funds can diversify your risk

…but look carefully at fees

Last week we identified the following broad classes of funds: fixed income, money market, equity, balanced and property funds and introduced the concept that each of these funds contributes differently to your investment portfolio both in terms of the expected return as well as the risks associated with the investment...

Spreading the power of oil, gas

The outcome of the recent auction for 10 offshore blocks continues to generate animated discussion in local energy circles and I propose to continue to add my two cents worth today...

Managing counterparty, country risk

In our last article we highlighted the importance of developing a risk management strategy and presented a framework for doing so by reference to the sources of legal risk...

Central Bank holds positive outlook

Repo rate remains unchanged

Amidst the positive outlook for T&T, a low inflation rate and continuing growth in bank credit, the Central Bank has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at five per cent until the next announcement on June 3...