The Caribbean Sea serves as a vi­tal link be­tween North and South Amer­i­ca, and is a key route to the At­lantic Ocean, rich in ma­rine re­sources and ecosys­tems. The Greater Caribbean com­pris­es 25 coun­tries and 12 ter­ri­to­ries, boast­ing a coast­line of 25,738 km, which rep­re­sents 1.6 per cent of the world’s to­tal coast­line.

In a pre­vi­ous ar­ti­cle, I ad­dressed some of the key dif­fer­ences be­tween de­ferred an­nu­ities of­fered by in­sur­ance com­pa­nies and re­tire­ment prod­ucts sold by mu­tu­al fund providers.

AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings Ltd is with­out a doubt one of T&T’s largest and old­est im­porters and dis­trib­u­tors of prod­ucts. Orig­i­nal­ly found­ed in Bar­ba­dos in 1898 by Arthur Sid­ney Bry­den, the Trinidad of­fice com­menced op­er­a­tions in Oc­to­ber 1923 un­der Arthur’s son William Fran­cis Bry­den “and can boast of be­ing one of the most suc­cess­ful busi­ness­es of its kind and gen­er­a­tion in the coun­try,” ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny’s web­site.

Share­hold­ers of Agos­ti­ni's Ltd will be asked to change the name of the com­pa­ny at its an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing to be held on Feb­ru­ary 13.

A back-up plan should be in place in case the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion im­ple­ments poli­cies than may dis­rupt this coun­try’s gas deals with Venezuela.

The on­go­ing for­eign ex­change short­age has led to the down­siz­ing of cloth­ing store chain K Squared Fash­ions.

Amid the grow­ing con­cern about for­eign ex­change con­straints in the coun­try, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is hop­ing the on­go­ing trade mis­sion to Do­mini­ca will help the sit­u­a­tion.

A decade af­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley was sworn in as Prime Min­is­ter in 2015, T&T’s econ­o­my is 17.6 per cent small­er than it was and the coun­try is in a weak­er state.

There have been a few in­quiries in­to the 178-room Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort in To­ba­go that is still up for sale.

Have you ever felt that sta­tis­tics pre­sent­ed by pub­lic of­fi­cials may be out of touch with the re­al­i­ty hap­pen­ing in the econ­o­my or oth­er events in the coun­try?

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance, and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU) is re­port­ed­ly dis­ap­point­ed with the out­come of a re­cent meet­ing with the man­age­ment of su­per­mar­ket chain Tru Valu.

CIBC has be­come the lat­est bank to de­crease the for­eign ex­change us­age lim­it on its deb­it card hold­ers in T&T.