Say the word ’accountant’ and immediately we picture an introverted, bookish nerd looking over the profit margin and caressing a calculator. »

’Water is the biggest problem,’ she told the Business Express last week, adding that after labouring over the patchoi for week, they finally gave up as the search for water proved to be too exhausting. »

Port of Spain-based conglomerate Guardian Holdings Limited (GHL) has expressed support for the Debt Exchange initiative proposed by the Government of Jamaica. »

In the last 16 years Trinidad and Tobago’s level of carbon emissions has increased by a whopping 278 per cent. »

Trinidadians and Tobagonians are buying fewer cars, building fewer homes and spending more on their credit cards »

From Caroni 1975 Ltd’s closure in 2003 to increasing drought and the constant threat of praedial larceny, Trinidad and Tobago’s farmers have been witness to numerous challenges in less than a decade. »

In the early 1990s I was a World Bank Consultant doing a study of ’The Use of Modern Communications Technologies and Community Participation in World Bank Projects’. »

If you like to cook - or make chow - with small, slightly sour tomatoes, then you’re in luck. »

Two popular local string beans, namely bodi and seim, were bountiful and cheap at most fresh markets last week. »

It is nearly a month since the New Year began and if your new year resolutions are already falling by the wayside don’t panic. »

People using the internet in Trinidad and Tobago are spending an average of six hours a day behind the computer. »

People who agree to serve on the boards of State authorities and enterprises must ’share the views of the Government’ as far as its policies are concerned, Prime Minister Patrick Manning has said. »

The biggest travel threat facing the world now is passport fraud, according to the chief of Interpol - the millions of stolen documents that could be used by terrorists or criminals to travel worldwide. »

PRESIDENT of the Quarry Association of Trinidad and Tobago Ramdeo Persad says his group is not proud of the local history of quarry rehabilitation and after use. »

Mobile telecoms provider Digicel has distributed vital supplies to nearly 4,000 Haitians camping in the garden of the Prime Minister’s office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. »

Sustained by an expanding resource sector and energy-hungry Asian trading partners, Australia is the only major economy to have avoided a technical recession in 2009 recording only one quarter of contraction in gross domestic product. »

Last week we reconciled the practice of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda with the operation of a small business highlighting the benefits to be gained by placing a spotlight outside the remit of the financial bottom line. »

When managing in the wilderness of the changing times, a map is of limited worth. »

Who would have thought a bunch of somber Caribbean Court of Justice judges knew how to party? Looking at the group as they toured Brian MacFarlane’s mas camp they did not look the type to jump and wave, but that was exactly what these law lords did as soon as Tony Prescott took to the makeshift stage. Climbing atop a concrete table, Prescott sang a medley of his past hits, creating a stir at the camp. »

caribbean economies have melted down. »

Manners may maketh man but shoes definitely maketh women. »

The language of business has drawn heavily from other vocabularies over the last two decades. »

from Dubai to Australia, Kishore Kharat, managing director of Bank of Baroda in Port of Spain first became involved in banking as a fairly anonymous teller at one of more than 3,000 branches of the India-based bank. »

In time for Carnival 2010, St James is getting a branch of a creole-food restaurant well known in Georgetown, Guyana, for its variety of soups. »

’Meeting the Challenges of the Aviation Industry in the Caribbean - Whither Air Jamaica’ was the grandiose title of a forum held at UWI, St Augustine on January 11.  »

The ambiguous definition of discrimination makes the job of Prof John La Guerre and his team at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) difficult. »