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With
no govt support, rising costs and competition
Hotelier
feels the heat in Tobago
Increases
in labour and food costs have led to Tobago hoteliers’
profits dropping by as much as 30 per cent in the
last three years, said Bill Bronte, owner of Arnos
Vale Hotel...
Commonwealth
Heads of Government Conference:
PM
defends State’s role as significant investor
Kampala,
UGANDA—Prime Minister Patrick Manning is challenging
the conventional wisdom of the Washington Consensus
which holds that the private sector has to be relied
upon to fuel growth in economies such as T&T...
Air
Jamaica for sale
Escalating
fuel prices is one of the major reasons two airlines,
one an indigenous Caribbean carrier and the other
with airlift impacting several Caricom countries,
are being put up for sale...
TTMA
to its members: ‘Don’t be a Scrooge’
Chief
executive officer of the T&T Manufacturers’
Association (TTMA), Natasha Mustapha, wants members
of her organisation to stop being Scrooges when it
comes to investing in social development programmes...
Thursday’s
earthquake triggers Caribbean fund
The
Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF),
the Caribbean’s first joint reserve fund for
earthquake and hurricane catastrophes, is likely to
make a payment to the governments of St Lucia and
Dominica as a result of Thursday’s earthquake...
Canadians
seeking out trade partners
The
increasing strength of Canada’s dollar is fuelling
plans for a major trade mission and investment to
Barbados...
OECD
warns of climate change risk
The
number of people threatened by coastal flooding could
more than triple by 2070 due to climate change while
the financial impact could surge by tens of trillions
of dollars, according to a prominent international
organization...
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