In De­cem­ber 1996, Alan Greenspan then Fed­er­al Re­serve Chair­man, gave a speech at the Amer­i­can En­ter­prise In­sti­tute in Wash­ing­ton D.C. From that speech we now have this fa­mous and time­less quote:

De­ci­sions! De­ci­sions! How do I make them? The core func­tion of a man­ag­er or en­tre­pre­neur is to make de­ci­sions. Some choic­es feel like kick­ing the tin can down the road. It may make sense, as some de­ci­sions are bet­ter made to­mor­row. Some, how­ev­er, are just keep­ing the firm from be­ing more com­pet­i­tive. While it shows up on your to-do list or cal­en­dar, it’s just a pend­ing mat­ter.

The Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (Nid­co) has been or­dered to pay over $26 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to a con­tract­ing com­pa­ny, whose op­er­a­tions were dis­rupt­ed af­ter some of its land was ac­quired for the con­struc­tion of the San Fer­nan­do to Point Fortin High­way. 

This week’s maxi-taxi strike has cre­at­ed a fi­nan­cial wind­fall for pri­vate-hire (PH) dri­vers and ride-hail­ing com­pa­nies, even as busi­ness­es faced staffing chal­lenges, com­muters paid sub­stan­tial­ly more to reach their work­places, and con­cerns mount­ed over the wider eco­nom­ic fall­out from the trans­porta­tion dis­rup­tion.

Over the past sev­er­al weeks, I re­viewed mar­ket­ing cur­ric­u­la across uni­ver­si­ties and train­ing in­sti­tu­tions in Sin­ga­pore, Chi­na, In­dia, Aus­tralia, Hong Kong, Japan, and sev­er­al Caribbean coun­tries, in­clud­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, Ja­maica, Bar­ba­dos, Guyana, the Ba­hamas, and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

The Min­ing and Pro­cess­ing of Ag­gre­gates As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MPAATT) is call­ing on the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries (MEEI) to im­me­di­ate­ly with­draw hold-over let­ters is­sued to 25 quar­ry op­er­a­tors, ar­gu­ing that the arrange­ment has no le­gal ba­sis un­der the coun­try’s min­ing laws.

At 5.30 am, Keisha Levine stood strand­ed on the pri­or­i­ty bus route in Ari­ma, watch­ing her son anx­ious­ly check his watch ahead of a cru­cial re­gion­al ex­am—a qui­et, stress­ful mo­ment that was soon mul­ti­plied by the thou­sands as Mon­day’s maxi-taxi strike left work­ing-class com­muters across Trinidad com­plete­ly grid­locked.

The Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion’s chief in­vest­ment of­fi­cer Crys­tal Ro­driguez-Greaves has re­ceived the Vi­sion­ary Award at the CFA (Char­tered Fi­nan­cial An­a­lyst) So­ci­ety Trinidad and To­ba­go (CFASTT) 25th An­niver­sary Gala Din­ner last week Sat­ur­day.

The maxi-taxi strike this week has brought for­ward the need for a prop­er work from home pol­i­cy, giv­en the lo­gis­ti­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal im­pact the strike had on the work­force.

Trinidad and To­ba­go NGL Lim­it­ed (TTNGL) re­turned to prof­itabil­i­ty in 2025, re­port­ing an af­ter-tax prof­it of $224.3 mil­lion for the year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, a sig­nif­i­cant turn­around from the $119.4 mil­lion loss record­ed in 2024.

The eco­nom­ic ef­fects of the maxi-taxi strike in Trinidad yes­ter­day are be­gin­ning to emerge, with busi­ness cham­bers warn­ing that a pro­longed dis­rup­tion could re­duce pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, af­fect cus­tomer traf­fic and place ad­di­tion­al fi­nan­cial pres­sure on work­ers and fam­i­lies.

The ANSA McAL Group host­ed its Grow­ing with Guyana net­work­ing cock­tail and busi­ness show­case at the Mar­riott in George­town, bring­ing to­geth­er the Pres­i­dent of the Co­op­er­a­tive Re­pub­lic of Guyana, Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, along­side se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, busi­ness lead­ers, part­ners and col­leagues from T&T and Guyana for an evening of strate­gic di­a­logue and col­lab­o­ra­tion.