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In August of last year, I wrote a couple articles with the title, My Budget Wish List.  As we go into another cycle for the preparation of the national budget, I have decided to address the issue a bit earlier this year in order to first of all compare what was suggested to the...

Most oil, gas and petrochemical companies operating in T&T have a stated strategic objective of maximising local content in their operations.

Part of the continuing series of monthly articles on Family Business

The last week in June posted relatively mixed economic data. Early in the week personal spending data proved a disappointment. For the month of May personal spending was flat following an increase of 0.3 per cent in April.

The Central Bank of T&T (CBTT) announced on June 24 that headline inflation, measured by the Retail Price Index, slowed to 3.90 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in the month of May, down from 6.40 per cent in April.

At midnight on April 17-18,1980, as the flag of independent Zimbabwe was raised for the first time, Tanzania’s President, Julius Nyerere, told the new Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, that he had inherited “the jewel of Africa.” Since then the “jewel” has become extremely tarnished. Today,...

CARACAS—United States-based Chevron expects to start production in September 2012 from an oil field in Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt, a company executive said.

SANTO DOMINGO: Fuel consumption is up 28.69 per cent in the Dominican Republi, despite rising prices, reports Diario Libre. Consumption has increased from 337,078,183 gallons in the first four months of the year to 433,814,009.