Her­itage in­ter­im Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Ar­lene Chow is get­ting a month­ly salary of $150,000 plus perks, act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert con­firmed yes­ter­day.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent—The St Vin­cent and the Grenadines gov­ern­ment has signed an agree­ment with Mar­riott In­ter­na­tion­al for the man­age­ment of the state-owned 250-room ho­tel to be con­struct­ed at Mt Wynne, on the west­ern coast of the is­land.

First Cit­i­zens has con­firmed that it en­coun­tered a dis­rup­tion in its sys­tem on Sep­tem­ber 10, 2019 but as­sures it is not as a re­sult of a cy­ber at­tack.

PwC firms across the Caribbean have com­mit­ted to off­set 100 per­cent of their busi­ness, air trav­el and en­er­gy con­sump­tion to sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duce their car­bon foot­print.

Sco­tia­bank Trinidad and To­ba­go has so far record­ed an in­come af­ter tax­a­tion of over half a bil­lion dol­lars for the fi­nan­cial year 2019, the com­pa­ny’s unau­dit­ed fi­nan­cial re­sults have stat­ed.

With the na­tion­al bud­get to be re­vealed in less than a month, the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day ex­pressed com­mon ar­eas of con­cern.

There is a grow­ing de­mand for steel fab­ri­ca­tors in the con­struc­tion sec­tor. This is ac­cord­ing to Theroon Cyrus, Fab­ri­ca­tion In­struc­tor at the Afif G Na­j­jar Fab­ri­ca­tion and Weld­ing In­sti­tute. Cyrus and stu­dents at­tached to the in­sti­tute made a site vis­it to the new hous­ing de­vel­op­ment at Brent­wood, Ch­agua­nas on Wednes­day. He said the de­mand for skilled fab­ri­ca­tors, both lo­cal­ly and re­gion­al­ly, is sur­pass­ing the sup­ply of trained in­di­vid­u­als . He said skilled fab­ri­ca­tors can earn up­wards of $35 per hour.

Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration has an­nounced that its first ex­plo­ration well in the Or­toire block has dis­cov­ered nat­ur­al gas. Ac­cord­ing to com­pa­ny it en­coun­tered four zones with prospec­tive nat­ur­al gas ac­cu­mu­la­tions.

Once the En­er­gy Min­istry fi­nalis­es a re­port on the oil tanker ex­plo­sion which oc­curred in June—when one per­son was killed—any de­ter­mi­na­tion of com­pen­sa­tion will then be con­tem­plat­ed.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) will pro­vide $100 mil­lion to help fi­nance hu­man­i­tar­i­an and re­con­struc­tion ef­forts in the Ba­hamas, fol­low­ing wide­spread loss of life and de­struc­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Do­ri­an.

Com­pa­nies that fol­low risk man­age­ment best prac­tice stand to be more re­silient and prof­itable, says Price­wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers (PwC).

From the bot­tom, it looks like an easy walk, but mid­way along San Fer­nan­do’s famed One Hun­dred Steps, you will prob­a­bly be gasp­ing for air. De­spite the ar­du­ous trek, most fit­ness en­thu­si­asts and oc­ca­sion­al jog­gers could tell of the ben­e­fits to their health and physique.