The Court of Ap­peal has pro­vid­ed guid­ance on cir­cum­stances in which lit­i­gants chal­leng­ing de­ci­sions by pub­lic bod­ies may re­cov­er their le­gal costs even when they with­draw their claims at a pre­lim­i­nary stage. 

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Karen Nunez-Tesheira says last week’s ter­mi­na­tion of Navin Dook­er­an as CEO of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of T&T (Ex­im­bank) may sig­nal the im­pend­ing end to con­ces­sion­al forex fi­nanc­ing for non-ex­port sec­tors, un­der­scor­ing the need for strate­gic ad­just­ments in eco­nom­ic pol­i­cy.

The see-saw move­ment at the top of the 12-team stand­ings in Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League, con­tin­ued­with Club San­do’s stay last­ing just for 24 hours fol­low­ing Sun­day’s round of match­es.

Whether you are a small busi­ness own­er or di­rec­tor of a large com­pa­ny, there are sim­i­lar is­sues which neg­a­tive­ly im­pact op­er­a­tions. A busi­ness own­er must con­sid­er the eco­nom­ic cli­mate, abil­i­ty to se­cure con­tracts/sales, in­come and ex­pen­di­ture, cou­pled with count­less oth­er mat­ters. A grow­ing con­sid­er­a­tion should be em­ploy­ees. The terms of em­ploy­ment, dis­ci­pli­nary ap­proach, em­ploy­er/em­ploy­ee re­la­tion­ship and the ap­proach to be adopt­ed should the need to ter­mi­nate an em­ploy­ee arise.