With ex­po­nen­tial growth in ar­rivals for its T&T style Car­ni­val and now placed on the is­land's tourism events cal­en­der, Ja­maica's Min­is­ter of Tourism Ed­mund Bartlett has said the is­land does not want to take over T&T's car­ni­val but rather en­hance it.

Ja­maica’s suc­cess in im­prov­ing its ease of do­ing busi­ness and at­tract­ing for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment (FDI) has been based on its abil­i­ty to sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­prove the ap­proval process and it is now work­ing on mak­ing it even quick­er and eas­i­er for busi­ness­es want­i­ng to place cap­i­tal in the north­ern Caribbean is­land.

This was the state­ment made by Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad as he de­liv­ered judg­ment on Wednes­day in a law­suit brought by Ger­ard Matthews, a sus­pend­ed di­rec­tor at East­ern Cred­it Union chal­leng­ing the va­lid­i­ty of the cred­it union’s elec­tion held in No­vem­ber.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has met Wood­side ex­ec­u­tives as talks cen­tred around sev­er­al top­ics in­clud­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ties for fu­ture col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween T&T and Wood­side En­er­gy Group Ltd un­der their three pil­lars of op­er­a­tion–oil, gas and new en­er­gy.

East­ern Cred­it Union is ac­cus­ing its reg­u­la­tor of col­lud­ing with a dis­grun­tled for­mer board mem­ber to de­stroy the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

The Cen­tral Bank says the sup­ply-side stim­u­lus to both food and core in­fla­tion in T&T is an­tic­i­pat­ed to per­sist to the end of 2022.

The bank kept the short-term rate on its overnight col­lat­er­alised fi­nanc­ing to com­mer­cial banks, the Re­po rate, at 3.50 per cent fol­low­ing its Mon­e­tary Pol­i­cy Com­mit­tee (MPC) meet­ings in De­cem­ber 2021 and March 2022.

The sign­ing of an agree­ment to form a glob­al al­liance of spe­cial eco­nom­ic zones must be about cre­at­ing jobs and putting mon­ey in­to the pock­ets of or­di­nary cit­i­zens says Ja­maica's Min­is­ter of In­dus­try, In­vest­ment and Com­merce, Aubyn Hill.

Chi­na’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go Fang Qiu has con­firmed two Chi­nese com­pa­nies will be­come ten­ants at the Phoenix Park In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

The glob­al food im­port bill is on course to hit a new record of US$1.8 tril­lion this year, but high­er prices and trans­port costs rather than vol­umes ac­count for the bulk of the ex­pect­ed in­crease, ac­cord­ing to a new re­port re­leased by the Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tions (FAO).

TSTT has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over the de­ci­sion of for­mer work­ers to threat­en le­gal ac­tion over tax forms.

One Au­gust day four years ago the skies cleared, al­low­ing one of these au­thors to pick pump­kins in Moru­ga, on land farmed by a neigh­bour’s friend who was not har­vest­ing his crop that year. In the pro­ceed­ing days, trop­i­cal show­ers had in­ter­mit­tent­ly swept in to turn the farm­land plots to bog. Lug­ging heavy sacks of pump­kins, knee-deep in mud is not an ex­pe­ri­ence one quick­ly for­gets.