News From the Caribbean
Newsletter
01 Sep 2010
Trinidad & Tobago
SEPTEMBER 2010 What is Risk Management
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Risk management involves identifying, analyzing, and taking steps to reduce or eliminate the exposures to loss faced by an organization or individual. Risk management is vital for small businesses, since some common types of losses—such as theft, fire, flood, legal liability, injury, or disability—can destroy in a few minutes. But while many large companies employ a full-time risk manager to identify risks and take the necessary steps to protect the firm against them, small companies rarely have that luxury. Instead, the responsibility for risk management is likely to fall on the small business owner.
Newsletter
01 Aug 2010
Barbados
AUGUST 2010 The Changing Tide
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We have always committed ourselves to producing newsletters that we feel offer our clients valuable information on the market place – and from the feedback we have received over the years it appears that our objectives have been achieved most of the time. This month we want to share some internal information that we feel demonstrates our confidence in the Barbados property market based on some internal initiatives that the Terra Caribbean Group has undertaken. But before we start let us think of Warren Buffet’s famous quote: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.”
Newsletter
01 Jun 2010
Barbados
JUNE 2010 Green Shoots Are Being Baked In The Sun
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About 12 months ago some financial pundits started to talk about “green shoots” in the market. We all understand the concept of renewal so it seemed quite an apt phrase when we started to see pockets of activity that gave us hope. That hope was realized over the winter period with an increase in actual transactions. As we had predicted last year, the price corrections coupled with a strengthening Pound Sterling and stabilizing world economy worked in our favour manifesting itself in transaction volume and stabilized pricing. I am pleased to say that we were right, but now it seems we face a new challenge – Greece and oil are causing our recovery to slip!
Newsletter
01 May 2010
Trinidad & Tobago
MAY 2010 WHAT DOES THE WORD EXPATRIAT MEAN TO US?
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According to the English glossary, the word EXPATRIATE is defined as “a person living outside his or her native country”…but what does this really mean to us here in Trinidad?
Newsletter
01 Apr 2010
Barbados
APRIL 2010 Enhancing the value of your investment through professional management.
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In The Red Book 2010 Andrew Mallalieu trumpets the equilibrium that has now been reached in the Barbados foreign real estate market: “Sellers have found the point at which buyers are willing to make a decision”; and this he states has led to sales of vacation and second homes to foreign investors at full asking price. Simon Milligan, in the same publication touts the investment in real estate (in Barbados or elsewhere) as a “theoretically sound part of a wider efficient portfolio of investments”
Newsletter
01 Mar 2010
Trinidad & Tobago
MARCH 2010 What does 2010 hold for Real Estate?
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Here is what the professionals think:
Newsletter
01 Feb 2010
Grenada
FEBRUARY 2010 Value Added Tax (VAT) & guide to purchasers and vendors
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VAT has arrived in Grenada, it was implemented on the 1st February 2010 and we would like to explain simply how it will affect purchasers and vendors.
Newsletter
01 Jan 2010
Barbados
JANUARY 2010 Time for The Red Book
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American playwright Tennessee Williams once said, “Time is the longest distance between two places.” This time last year we were apprehensive about what 2009 held for us as the major economies of the world virtually crashed and burned. We were counseled that a flight to quality would leave Barbados in a relatively good position when the economic smoke cleared. The time has inched by and The Red Book 2010 reflects that the distance between economic chaos and normalcy is growing shorter, even if incrementally. In anticipation of The Red Book 2010, we take a look at the views of some of this year’s writers, business professionals with interests spanning real estate, construction, insurance, finance and history.
Newsletter
01 Jan 2010
Grenada
JANUARY 2010 What's new at Terra Caribbean Grenada?
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The bar has been raised at Terra Caribbean with new service lines now available to better serve our increasing clientele. We have relocated to a larger office as Terra’s family grew with the addition of key staff members and hence outgrown our previous home. Terra Caribbean Grenada is now located on the top floor of the Netherlands Building in Grand Anse, St. George.
Newsletter
01 Dec 2009
Trinidad & Tobago