HAR­CON Na­tion­al Youth Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and En­vi­ron­ment So­cial and Gov­er­nance es­say Part 2

Med­corp Ltd, one of T&T’s largest pri­vate health­care providers, is seek­ing to be­come the fourth small and medi­um-sized en­ter­prise (SME) to be list­ed on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) by is­su­ing an ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing (IPO) of 350,000 shares at a price of $48 per share.

There is an ur­gent is­sue af­fect­ing the avail­abil­i­ty of es­sen­tial food and health sup­ple­ments in T&T, dri­ven by ex­ces­sive bu­reau­cra­cy and out­dat­ed im­port reg­u­la­tions. These re­stric­tions are not on­ly cost­ly but al­so cre­ate sig­nif­i­cant bar­ri­ers for re­tail im­porters and con­sumers alike.

Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL) has amend­ed its loan agree­ments with Citibank and Sco­tia­bank for the third time.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal has said news that first gas has been de­liv­ered from the Men­to de­vel­op­ment is wel­comed.

The To­ba­go Tourism Agency Ltd (TTAL) has paid out over 1 mil­lion dol­lars to 16 tourist ac­com­mo­da­tion prop­er­ties across the is­land in a bid the bol­ster the is­land's tourism prod­uct.

Top of­fi­cials at the Eu­ro­pean Union’s ex­ec­u­tive com­mis­sion says they’re push­ing hard for a trade deal with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion to avoid a 50 per cent tar­iff on im­port­ed goods. Trump had threat­ened to im­pose the tar­iffs on June 1, but has pushed back the dead­line to Ju­ly 9, re­peat­ing an oft-used tac­tic in his trade war.

The for­mer own­ers of AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings Ltd are seek­ing to raise over US$10.76 mil­lion from the sale of their pref­er­ence shares on the Ja­maica Stock Ex­change (JSE).

At the post-Cab­i­net news con­fer­ence on May 15, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced that three of her min­is­ters—Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dra­dath Tan­coo, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh and Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment, and Tourism, Satyaka­ma “Ka­ma” Ma­haraj—were man­dat­ed to pro­duce a re­port on for­eign ex­change dis­tri­b­u­tion and leak­age over the past ten years.

Se­nior part­ner at HAR­CON Con­sult­ing, Sher­ry Ann Joseph is hop­ing that leg­is­la­tion is up­dat­ed to en­sure that the con­tin­ued growth and rel­e­vance of the cred­it union sec­tor.

Peo­ple of­ten think that CO2 is the on­ly green­house gas (GHG) which con­tributes to glob­al warm­ing and cli­mate change. How­ev­er, there are oth­er im­por­tant GHGs such as methane (CH4) and ni­trous ox­ide (N2O) which are al­so tracked un­der glob­al cli­mate agree­ments and which coun­tries re­port un­der their in­ter­na­tion­al oblig­a­tions un­der the Paris cli­mate agree­ment.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy, Ernesto Ke­sar, met with Peren­co, bpTT, and Wood­side En­er­gy on Tues­day to dis­cuss project up­dates.