The business sector is only interested in making profits. In Trinidad, making profits equates to the Government setting up the structures, providing the incentives, establishing the markets and allowing free transfer of funds to foreign bank accounts. Only then will businessmen be interested in investing in any sector. In the absence of these factors, growth in the non-energy sector will remain sluggish and new business investment will remain down.
In other words, even though there are innumerable opportunities to invest in the economy, business investors will continue to hold onto their money because the Government is not sweetening the pot. Making profits to them means like risk and high returns. And they call it entrepreneurship!
Karan Mahabirsingh
Freeport