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BG
View from the Editor
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Should
we curb foreign-used cars?
DRIVING
to work early one morning this week, I was astonished,
as always, by the number of cars on the Churchill/Roosevelt
Highway in the darkness of the immediate pre-dawn
period...
IMF:
Caribbean rising to challenges
This
year was an important milepost for Latin America and
the Caribbean...
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News
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Caribbean,
EU sign historic EPA
Representatives
of Cariforum (Caricom and the Dominican Republic)
and the European Union (EU) finally reached closure
in the early hours of last Sunday, finally signing
an historic Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in
Bridgetown, Barbados after two and a half hours of
talks...
Top
gifts for Christmas
Nintendos,
Transformers, Hannah Montana and Cheetah Girls
Nintendo’s
Wii is flying off the shelves faster than retailers
can stock it...
Trinidad
Tunes launched
What
has been a year and a half in the making is finally
realised: A Web site where you can buy all local music
safely and, most of all, legally...
Advocates
for procurement reform
AT
time when most local professionals are content to
get together to gripe about problems, a lawyer, a
quantity surveyor and a company director have decided
to establish an institute to do something about reforming
procurement laws and practice in the region...
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Corporate
Ladder
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Lopez
joins FirstCaribbean’s wealth management
New
Zealander Debra Lopez will join the FirstCaribbean
wealth management team on January 2, 2008, as wealth
management director based in Jamaica...
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Money
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Future
not too bright for Chavez’s Venezuela
What
could possibly be the downfall of an economy basking
in some of the world’s most profitable natural
resources? One word. Politics...
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Real
Estate
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Capital
Concerns
Some
economic & financial endnotes
After
a short break caused by election excitement and a
computer bug, we are setting out some closing thoughts
on the economic and financial aspects of our capital’s
planning...
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Tips
For Life
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Table
manners and business
Being
successful in your job hinges on two critical factors:
your job skills and your people skills...
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Verbatim
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Towards
becoming world class
Part
I of this article appeared on December 13.This concludes
our reproduction of the feature address by the chamber’s
president, Ian Collier, at the recent induction ceremony
of our Business Hall of Fame on November 23...
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Energy
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Profit
sharing vs performance bonus
Profit
sharing has been in the news in recent weeks, mainly
due to the position tabled by the Oilfield Workers
Trade Union (OWTU) in their collective bargaining
process with Yara (Trinidad) Ltd...
US
Congress proposes a giant leap for ethanol
The
US Congress is on the verge of writing into law one
of the most ambitious dictates ever issued to American
business: to create, from scratch, a huge new industry
capable of converting agricultural wastes and other
plant material into automotive fuel...
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Management
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What
leaders really do
Leadership
is different from management, but not for the reasons
most people think...
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Investment
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‘Real’
impact of inflation
Indeed
the above quote could not be clearer about the “real”
effects of inflation...
Rise
to the occasion
How
to benefit from high prices
Last
week you saw how high oil prices were impacting on
high food prices...
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Commentary
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Southeast
Asia and the Caribbean joint ventures:
A
not impossible dream
The
possibility of a co-operation agreement between the
Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) and
the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (Asean)
was raised recently by the Indonesian Ambassador to
Guyana and Suriname, Suprijanto Muhadi...
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Technology
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Facebook
climbs the social scale
Never
mind Web sites...
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