Ma­ter­ni­ty leave poli­cies are es­sen­tial com­po­nents of labour leg­is­la­tion, shap­ing the health, well-be­ing, and eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty of fam­i­lies. In T&T, ma­ter­ni­ty leave is gov­erned by the Ma­ter­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Act, which cur­rent­ly en­ti­tles el­i­gi­ble em­ploy­ees to 14 weeks of paid ma­ter­ni­ty leave af­ter at least one year of con­tin­u­ous em­ploy­ment with an em­ploy­er (Min­istry of Labour, 2023).

In June last year, An­na Hen­der­son was named pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of T&T (Am­cham T&T).

In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day is be­ing ob­served to­day across the world, with re­newed at­ten­tion on the role women play in lead­er­ship, busi­ness and na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

In a world that con­stant­ly de­mands more—more hours, more vis­i­bil­i­ty and more con­ces­sions of the self—Mala Bali­raj is nav­i­gat­ing the cor­po­rate land­scape of T&T by chart­ing a dif­fer­ent course: step­ping back in or­der to move for­ward.

De­spite on­ly 60 to 65 per cent of cred­it unions be­ing ful­ly com­pli­ant with fi­nan­cial sec­tor reg­u­la­tions, pres­i­dent of the Co-op­er­a­tive Cred­it Union League of T&T, Auldric Nep­tune said this was due to a lack of over­sight rather than de­fi­ance.

The calm of the Caribbean is be­ing dis­rupt­ed by a per­fect storm of glob­al volatil­i­ty, says Group CEO of Guardian Group Ian Chi­napoo while speak­ing at the in­au­gur­al Pri­vate Sec­tor Fo­rum on Tues­day, as he al­so is­sued a stark warn­ing to the re­gion’s busi­ness lead­ers: the era of in­su­lat­ed growth is over.

The T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has is­sued an ur­gent call for gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion, warn­ing that chron­ic de­lays in Val­ue Added Tax (VAT) re­funds are paralysing key sec­tors of the na­tion­al econ­o­my.

Massy Hold­ings Ltd yes­ter­day an­nounced the res­ig­na­tion of Vaughn Mar­tin, its group ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent and CEO of its gas prod­ucts port­fo­lio, ef­fec­tive March 31.

Agos­ti­ni has ex­tend­ed the clos­ing date of its share swap deal to ac­quire Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL) for the sev­enth time.

Chi­na Na­tion­al Off­shore Oil Cor­po­ra­tion (CNOOC), one of the world’s largest off­shore oil and gas pro­duc­ers, is poised to deep­en its pres­ence in T&T af­ter the Cab­i­net ap­proved the award of pro­duc­tion shar­ing con­tracts for two off­shore blocks.

De­spite what Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Dr Roodal Mooni­lal de­scribed as warm dis­cus­sions with Cana­di­an petro­chem­i­cals com­pa­ny Nu­trien on Mon­day, he could not yes­ter­day pro­vide a time­line for the pos­si­ble restart of the com­pa­ny's ni­tro­gen com­plex at the Point Lisas in­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

With a ro­bust lend­ing port­fo­lio of US$1.8 bil­lion, T&T has of­fi­cial­ly ce­ment­ed its po­si­tion as a cen­tral pil­lar of CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean’s re­gion­al strat­e­gy.