With the rise in con­cern on the is­sue of cli­mate change, there is in­creas­ing pres­sure on in­dus­tries, such as con­struc­tion to min­imise its en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pacts for a more sus­tain­able fu­ture.

Women ac­count for ap­prox­i­mate­ly on­ly one in every five mem­bers of a board of di­rec­tors in this coun­try, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est cor­po­rate di­rec­tors’ com­pen­sa­tion sur­vey.

The re­cent move by the Unit­ed States to in­crease its in­ter­est rate will have a di­rect im­pact on T&T, says econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon.

“We’re ex­cit­ed about what this will mean for the Ja­maican peo­ple, the op­por­tu­ni­ties that it will open up, and what new vis­tas await.”

Pres­i­dent of the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank Ilan Gold­fa­jn yes­ter­day paid a cour­tesy call on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley where the first draw­down of a US$80 mil­lion loan to re­ha­bil­i­tate this coun­try’s wa­ter sec­tor was signed.

Af­ter see­ing an in­crease in loans for fis­cal year 2022, Sco­tia­bank T&T has con­firmed that the pos­i­tive per­for­mance con­tin­ued in the first quar­ter of 2023.

Pres­i­dent of the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank Ilan Gold­fa­jn has urged T&T to con­tin­ue its ef­forts to build re­silience amid grow­ing ex­ter­nal pres­sures.

Three mu­tu­al funds were launched on the Ja­maican mar­ket yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing a joint ven­ture be­tween the T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion and GraceKennedy.

“I be­lieve her views have al­ways been ahead of her time. From very ear­ly on, she taught my sis­ter and I the lessons from her own ex­pe­ri­ences, the val­ue of be­ing in­de­pen­dent and be­ing able to stand on your own two feet.

The school mot­to for St Au­gus­tine Girls’ High School is ‘Per Ar­d­ua ad As­tra’, which is a Latin phrase that means “through ad­ver­si­ty to the stars.”

On Jan­u­ary 1, 2023, Natasha Davis was named the chief op­er­a­tions of­fi­cer (COO) of the Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T.

Rhon­da Lan­dreth-Smith re­mem­bers once work­ing all night on a project and not even be­ing in­vit­ed to the pre­sen­ta­tion of it.