#Galleryyuhself/economics

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Galleryyuhself - What better way to sustain the valuable works of an icon than this tribute to his memory.

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Galleryyuhself - Keron Rose continues to pave a fresh path in Trinidad and Tobago by answering crucial questions about our economic landscape.

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Galleryyuhself - A history of BATA and its establishment in Trinidad and Tobago.

From the Facebook page of Dominic Kalipersad - The Bata Company began exporting shoes to Trinidad in 1930 and two years later, it established shops on the island.Bata continued selling its shoes to Trinidad customers even after the Second World War, and the company ceased operations on the island in 1993.It sneakers, called Bata Bullets, were a hot seller for schoolchildren, probably due to the economical price, but they were not considered cool by the fashion-conscious.

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~Galleryyuhself~ The Red Line that every black person knew about is finally being acknowledged. Thank you Black Lives Matter.

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~Galleryyuhself~ A valuable read at this time.

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Charles Petioni was a co-founder of the Trinidad Co-operative Bank, popularly known as the Penny Bank.In 1914, Petioni and friends raised the capital to finance the establishment of the bank which allowed deposits as small as a penny. He served as its secretary-treasurer.The move was in response to the policy at the British Colonial Bank (BCB), then the only commercial financial institution in Trinidad, which made the opening minimum deposit unaffordable by low-income people.

The BCB, by its policy, catered to upper-class merchants, plantation operators, and government officials.Petioni, however, was not able to see the Penny Bank overcome the resistance it faced from elements in colonial Trinidad that did not want a black-owned bank to succeed. His social activism against colonialism forced him to go into exile in the United States within four years.Petrioni had been a journalist and subeditor with local newspapers from 1908 to 1918.His anti-colonial newspaper articles got him in such trouble that he was fired.

It is reported that “the colonial government sent word to him that his outspoken views about local political and economic conditions had permanently future career opportunities for himself and his family”.When Petioni moved to Harlem, New York, in 1918, he had “never lifted anything heavier than a pen”, and had to take work as a stockman in the shipyards, then as an elevator operator, and later as an elevator operator. Eventually, he attended pre-med night classes at City College of New York until he was able to enroll at Howard University College of Medicine.After graduation in 1925, Petioni became one of Harlem’s first black physicians. He opened a practice at his home where he attended to low-income patients, joining a complex struggle for better conditions for blacks in Harlem.

Petioni devoted much of his later life to African American and West Indian social, political, and economic, and medical organisations. He became president of the West Indies National Council, and joined the United Negro Improvement Association.In time, he became a founding director of the Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association which, much like the Penny Bank he had founded in his native Trinidad, helped poor people be able to save money, obtain mortgages, and purchase their own homes.Born in August 27, 1885, Dr. Charles Augustin Petioni died in New York on October 15, 1951.

His daughter, Dr. Muriel Petioni, born in Trinidad in 1914, followed in her father's footsteps, set up a private practice in the same office he had used for his practice, and worked diligently help underserved communities receive proper medical attention and equitable access to health care.More: 1. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience2. https://www.marxists.org/.../works/1939/10/negro3.htm...

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~Galleryyuhself~ From the Facebook of my friend Ayodhya Ouditt

Introducing the Caribbean Behaviour Change Network — a behavioural design think tank focused on solutions to the region's public health, social, and environmental problems.In 2016, my uncle Steve and myself started Vessel Health Communication, a small design firm that used the lessons of behavioural economics to guide our design practice. It was the first of its kind in the country.Since then our team has grown. In 2018, we partnered with London based Ogilvy BSP, and in 2019 with the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, to create the Caribbean Behaviour Change Network.Today I can finally share our completed website (link in bio), and I'm looking forward to all the work we can do, the importance of which is now more clear than ever.

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We need a new narrative to guide better policies.” These mission-oriented institutions were actively creating and shaping markets, rather than merely fixing them. They were ambitiously seeking high-risk directions for research and investment, rather than outsourcing and avoiding uncertainty.

Mariana Mazzucato

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~Galleryyuhself~ We all want to know...

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#Galleryyuhself~ What’s in a name? Apparently everything.

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NOTCOT Baby List! For those who have asked what has worked for us. Pregnancy - 4 months with regular updates. [Made this list an Amazon affiliate storefront, because we've been using Amazon Prime a lot for the convenience during exhaustion!] (Galleryyuhself) This is an excellent visual chart of what to expect AFTER you got what you were expecting. (c) lol.

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~Galleryyuhself~~A very worthwhile read. It begs the question about education of our young people and the business of design. Is the field in Trinidad and Tobago and the region preparing the next generation of Designers for the future?

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Trinidad & Tobago Budget 2020 excerpt

• Small and Medium-sized Enterprises 

Madam Speaker, small-and-medium-sized businesses remain a central pillar 

in our development strategy for achieving sustained economic growth. We 

are particularly pleased that Development Finance Limited of Trinidad and 

Tobago has been able to secure a US$10.0 million loan from the Caribbean 

Development Bank for on-lending to small- and medium-sized enterprises. 

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Madam Speaker, the focus of that lending on agricultural, industrial and 

tourism activities is well-advised. This direction is consistent with our own 

development agenda to increase viable investments to the productive SME 

sector, given its positive impact on the rate of economic growth, employment 

and income. • EXIMBANK Facility 

Madam Speaker, the EXIMBANK Foreign Exchange Facility, appropriately 

resourced by the Government has been meeting the foreign exchange 

requirements of the non-oil domestic manufacturers who have been 

achieving the qualifying criteria. The original allocation of US$10 million has 

been fully utilized and we recently approved a second tranche of US$10 

million