The rape of Negre Maron

North Coast access roads bid to revive cocoa industry destroying environment

Dominic Tardieu pointed to the bare earth on the side of the North Coast mountain after being stripped of its covering of vegetation...

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Our CSME future

QUITE suddenly on Monday, the Caribbean Single Market and Economy—which will turn out to be about the free flow of capital throughout the region—began to take on new meaning...

Ready to act

On Friday, the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) took the decision to suspend the Seprod Group—one of its listed companies—from trading its shares on the stock market there because of the company’s failure to submit its fourth quarter financial results on time...

Enill defends Uthara Rao

‘We have to make allowances for the humanness in people’

Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Conrad Enill, has defended the chairman of the Estate Management and Business Development Company (EMBD) Uthara Rao, whose management of the EMBD has been the subject of ongoing examination by Parliament’s Public Accounts Enterprises Committee (PAEC)...

Trade unionist Vincent Cabrera:

Govt poverty reduction claim obscene

A trade unionist has described as obscene the planned publication of a report by the Government which is likely to declare that poverty is and has been on the decline in T&T over the last five years...

2007–great beginning for GraceKennedy

Revenues, profits leap more than 20 per cent

The Caribbean’s leading conglomerate, GraceKennedy Ltd is, it seems, beginning to reap the dividends from restructuring measures put in place last year...

Caribbean Telecommunications Union’s

Connecting the young

Today, the world will join with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to celebrate World Information Telecommunication and Society Day (formerly World Telecommunication Day)...

Central America, Caribbean talk on free trade

BELIZE CITY—Caribbean and Central American nations said they are committed to creating a free trade pact, but set no deadline for concluding talks as they held a summit in Belize...

Venezuela in the Caribbean

Former diplomat Sir Ronald Sanders on April 17, delivered a lecture at Chatham House, St James’ Square, London on the expansion of Venezuela’s influence in the Caribbean and the potential repercussions that could arise for the Caribbean as a result of the growing antipathy between the US and Venezuelan governments...

The chairman’s report

ANSA Merchant boasts 48% growth in earnings

Our group has contributed in a large part to both the economic development of T&T and the Caribbean region through our strategic investments in other islands...

How Chavez ‘war’ will affect all of us

President Chavez’s decision to nationalise Venezuela’s oil industry, leave the World Bank and IMF will become the talking point in academia, in political circles, in business circles and among the masses...

Chinese investors warned of stock market risks

BEIJING—China has reached for the brake pedal on its booming stock markets, with a securities watchdog saying investors must be educated on the risks involved and the government announcing plans to widen a struggling program for overseas investing...

bourse mutual fund review

Money market mutual funds The better alternative

Traditionally, most individuals have associated savings with saving deposits...

Getting your financial house in order

We are all aware that we need to plan for our future financially by saving and investing but most of us are daunted by the task and even where to start...

Trading off cash for stock

The largest ever combination in the banking sector is now engaging the attention of analysts and investors around the world...

MP’s letter not libelous

George Joseph was and is a popular radio talk show host who, in December 2004, hosted a morning talk show, The Today Show on Radio I 95.5, which discussed mainly current affairs and politics...

National Safety Week

Foundation for a safer society

Many people have asked: why have a national safety week or what can this one week do for us?

Organisational learnings from biology

It must be of itself that the divine thought thinks (since that is the most excellent of things)

Struggles continue between China, Taiwan

The political struggle between China and Taiwan has once again shown in its head in the Caribbean, dividing the loyalties of the countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and delaying the formulation of a cohesive policy toward Asia...