Business

I sat across from an attractive female academic not too long ago as she asked me about helping her find a USB mass storage device for her Apple laptop. Trinidad and Tobago, of course, is a small market - and the people who bring down hardware bring what is most likely to sell. And Apple compatibility is really not as big of a draw as the typical Apple user may think. The majority of the market in Trinidad and Tobago uses the PC platform - so when people bring in computing paraphernalia, it's basically for the PC platform.

While bankers say that the [Caribbean] region needs investment, I believe it is important to point out that there should be worthwhile things to invest in. And when I write 'worthwhile', I do not mean only  to investors; thinking otherwise brings us things such as aluminium smelters. And aluminium smelters are at best a high risk to the environment - especially on an island.