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BG
View from the Editor
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The
fight for RBTT
The
directors and regulators, I am sure, buy what is being
framed as the globalisation paradigm which states that
absolutely nothing is sacred and that everything is
for sale, even if the motives for decision to sell are
not exactly the purest and the offer sub-optimal...
Cheap
energy will not fuel growth
I
would like to add a few comments to last week’s
BG View, “Should T&T subsidise Jamaica”
as it reflects commonly held views about differences
in the business environment of Jamaica and T&T...
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News
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Life’s
a beach
Tourism,
secondary homes driving St Lucia’s economy
Tourism
is St Lucia’s lifeblood...
TTMA
elects new president
Karen
De Montbrun
After
two years of devoted presidency Paul Quesnel relinquished
the mantle to Karen De Montbrun, the first female president
of the T&T Manufacturers Association (TTMA)...
World
Bank bacchanal
President
says he is responsible for friend’s promotion,
pay increase
WASHINGTON—World
Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is taking “full responsibility”
for helping a close woman friend get transferred to
a high-paying job...
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Corporate
Ladder
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Martin
de Gannes heads ECA board
Martin
de Gannes now heads the board at the Employers’
Consultative Association of T&T (ECA).
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Energy
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Natural
gas giants plan new group on pricing
Qatar—The
world’s largest natural-gas-exporting countries
plan to establish a high-level group on gas pricing,
the Russian energy minister said on Monday, though his
counterparts for Iran and Qatar denied the aim is a
cartel...
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Feedback
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High
cost of private healthcare justified
I
read with tremendous interest an article written by
Asha Javeed regarding private health institutions profiting
from the poor in the March 22 Business Guardian...
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Legal
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Defences
to libel
Civ
App 54 of 2004, Police Constables Ramdhan, Morales,
Matas and Williams–v- Trinidad Express Newspapers
Ltd and others...
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Investment
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More
with mutual funds
Offering
higher returns than traditional bank deposits
Locally,
regionally and internationally inflation continues to
be an ever important concern of governments and, by
extension, the capital and debt markets around the world...
Your
turn to take garbage out
Aren’t
you fed up with that same old story just playing over
and over? There has to be more to progress than just
blindly accepting the way our world works in T&T...
Inflation,
the stock market and Your pension
After
last week’s article I am sure you can now appreciate
why the markets in the US are so anxious about inflation
and why the US Federal Reserve goes to such lengths
to ensure that they proactively deal with any threat
or potential threat of inflation...
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Money
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Problems
in the Spice Island
On
April 2, Standard and Poor’s lowered its credit
rating on Grenada to CCC+ from B-, while maintaining
the outlook at stable...
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Verbatim
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Govt
mulls energy merger
Late
last month Prime Minister Patrick Manning delivered
a wide-ranging address at the second British Gas (T&T)
energy luncheon series at the Hilton Trinidad...
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Commentary
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Free
movement on the move
The
Caricom Single Market and Economy general secretariat
has announced the extension date of 2009 for the full
movement of persons in the region and as the new benchmark
for standardisation of key elements in the single market
process...
Big
win for small nations
Antigua
WTO victory over US points way
If
small countries intend to participate meaningfully in
the global trading system, they have to be prepared
to face the cost of arbitrating disputes at the World
Trade Organisation (WTO) and to be creative in the ways
in which these costs are met, including through public-private
partnerships...
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