This is the fourth edi­tion of a sev­en-part se­ries fea­tur­ing sec­ondary school stu­dents pro­vid­ing their thoughts on En­vi­ron­men­tal, So­cial, and Gov­er­nance (ESG) is­sues as part of the HAR­CON Na­tion­al Youth Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and ESG Pi­lot Project

So said Deputy Group CEO of Massy Hold­ings, James McLetchie, who shared his point of view on the tech­nol­o­gy dur­ing the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (Am­cham T&T) 32nd an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing and busi­ness fo­rum.

In­stant mes­sag­ing and so­cial me­dia plat­forms such as What­sApp, Face­book, Mes­sen­ger and In­sta­gram are sta­ples of mod­ern life and the use of these plat­forms has been the sub­ject of many ju­di­cial de­ci­sions rang­ing from mat­ters of defama­tion to con­tract for­ma­tion. This ar­ti­cle aims to pro­vide an overview of the re­cent Eng­lish High Court de­ci­sion in Jaevee Homes Ltd v Fin­cham (trad­ing as Fin­cham De­mo­li­tion) [2025] EWHC 942 (TCC) (‘Jaevee Homes’) where it was held that a valid con­tract was con­clud­ed by cer­tain What­sApp ex­changes in­stead of by a for­malised sub­con­tract sub­mit­ted lat­er on.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce Son­ji Pierre-Chase is pleased with Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo’s em­pha­sis on press­ing is­sues such as for­eign ex­change avail­abil­i­ty, debt man­age­ment, tax re­form, and ex­port-led growth, dur­ing his pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2025 Mid-Year Fis­cal Re­view.

There are mixed views con­cern­ing the gov­ern­ment’s plan to es­tab­lish a for­eign ex­change al­lo­ca­tion com­mit­tee.

In a show of con­cern over grow­ing geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions that was broad in its ref­er­ence to the con­tem­po­rary “geopo­lit­i­cal land­scape” but light on de­tail, once again, for­eign min­is­ters of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) bloc re­cent­ly placed a spot­light on the cur­rent geopo­lit­i­cal mo­ment. They did so last month in a broad­er ef­fort to ad­vance their re­spec­tive coun­tries’ na­tion­al in­ter­ests.

San Fer­nan­do East MP and for­mer Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Bri­an Man­ning yes­ter­day ques­tioned Gov­ern­ment’s cur­rent fis­cal strate­gies and warned of broad­er eco­nom­ic fall­out.

Let us be clear. The coun­try has en­tered Kam­la II’s reign in 2025 with a bad eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal hand – a los­ing hand based on the his­tor­i­cal record.

Wise­ly us­ing waste has long been a strat­e­gy em­ployed by Louisea John-Browne, but her dri­ve has led her on­to the path of bur­geon­ing busi­ness.

Hav­ing cur­rent col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ments (CBAs) is vi­tal for en­sur­ing fair labour prac­tices, pro­mot­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, and pre­vent­ing in­dus­tri­al un­rest.

Be­sides tourism, fi­nan­cial ser­vices are among the main ser­vices ex­port­ed by Caribbean coun­tries, par­tic­u­lar­ly those ju­ris­dic­tions which are clas­si­fied as in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial cen­tres (IFCs).

Guardian Me­dia has been re­li­ably in­formed that the di­rec­tors are at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen, Ram­nar­ine Be­dasie, Naz­im Sar­jad, Dr Ram­per­sad Moti­lal, Saman­tha Su­ru­jbal­ly, Dar­ren Mitchell, and Dr Ah­mad Khan.