“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By: Ainsley Brown Trinidad Cement Limited vs. The State of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on January 15, 2009 made its first ruling as to its own original jurisdiction. The CCJ has Appellate jurisdiction over Civil and Criminal cases referred to it from common law member states. It also has original jurisdiction as to
Today is budget day in Canada. While every budget is important this one holds significant for two main reasons: 1. it will or ought to contain Canada’s (Conservative government of Canada’s) economic stimulus plan. It will/ought to contain items on infrastructure; the environment; and tax cuts just to name a few. 2. it could have political consequences with the minority
by Ainsley Brown The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed that it has found avian flu on a turkey farm in British Columbia. The strain of the virus, H5, is a type that doesn’t spread easily and rarely infects humans. Just as in the last outbreak in 2005 in this part of the country all of the birds will
The numbers are out from the Office for National Statistics and they are not pretty: the UK economy shrank by 1.5% in the last three months of 2008. This contraction was worse than expected and is even deeper than the last recession of the early 90’s. In fact it was the biggest fall in more than 28 years. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Ah! The beautiful island of Mauritius……..Ah! It is January and for many in the northern hemisphere winter has fully excreted its cold, snowy and unyielding grip. This is the time when the winter blues set completely set in. It is when we daydream, drift off and wish for sunnier and warmer climes. Ah! The beautiful island of Mauritius, a green
If you don’t know already Nortel Networks Corp the Canadian telecom giant files for creditor protection last week. This is a might fall for a once mighty company, a company almost as old as the telephone itself, company that was an innovator and industry leader. At its peak during the dot.com bubble it was Canada’s largest company accounting for almost
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