As part of his global ambitions, former executive chairman of CL Financial Lawrence Duprey set up a company called CL World Brands in 2003, shortly after he purchased the Scotch distiller, Burn Stewart.
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I have not been in the country for two weeks and your article (BG View March 213, Week Four) was brought to my attention. It is true that the announced expenditures differ from the actual. So why announce big expenditures anyway?
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The recent passing to the great beyond of Baroness Margaret Thatcher has brought to my mind an article in a daily newspaper in February 1994 which was headed, Thatcherite disciples come to town.
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Why do we get such soft ball articles on the West Indian Tobacco Company (Witco)? Why do we only get Witco’s view?
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This week, we look at the results of three companies whose financial year ended in December 2012.
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Q: I have been running a business for the last 19 months, and we have never made a profit. I have been wondering, at what point should we consider this business to have failed?
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We have entered, some say, what the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, dubbed a “post-PC era”. But a requiem for the PC is premature. For all the trouble the PC market is seeing, personal computing is experiencing a golden, albeit mobile, era.
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It is not often that this column agrees with the positions adopted by former deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Terrence Farrell, but there is concurrence with his view, expressed in a commentary on April 2 that: "the (managed) flotation of the TT...
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Although it’s production has been falling, T&T’s largest hydrocarbons producer bpTT has doubled its acreage over the last year and plans to invest a fresh US$5 billion ($32 billion) over the next five years.
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The subsidised mortgage programme for citizens earning $8,000 or less announced by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at a political meeting on April 8 is not a new initiative.
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