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Some good-ish macroeconomic news for T&T

14-Sep-09

My day job has kept me so busy I haven’t yet had time to read beyond the headlines of the latest budget, but it seems that whatever Karen Nunez-Tesheira put together pleased Standard & Poor’s. Although the devil, as ever, is in the details. The rating agency issued the following statement on Monday (any emphasis [...]

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Standard & Poor’s downgrades Sagicor Life Inc

28-Jul-09

I tend to bang on about these rating agency downgrades, but they are important. For those of you not familiar with these companies, their essence can be distilled thus:  ratings agencies are arbiters of creditworthiness. In other words, agencies like Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch bestow upon companies and countries  grades that indicate the [...]

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First world habits, third world country

17-Apr-08

In ten days I will be moving back to Trinidad for at least three months, and probably quite a lot longer. I am totally unprepared. First, the basics. I won’t have an apartment of my own (and will be living with one parent or another, which is a regression on all sorts of levels). I [...]

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