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Understanding ESG and How to Avoid Greenwashing
By Jarrel De Matas (Updated for Digital ESG Practice, 2026 Context) ESG IN THE DIGITAL AGE: WHY IT...
Why Common ESG Reporting Standards Matter
As ESG reporting transitions from voluntary disclosure to mandatory compliance across global...
CSR Stories
RBC ESG Strategy and Performance: How RBC Is Advancing Net-Zero Leadership and Sustainable Finance
As global financial institutions face increasing scrutiny over environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) continues to position itself as a major player in sustainable finance, climate leadership, diversity, and responsible...
Sustainable Rum Production in Guyana: How Demerara Distillers Limited Is Advancing ESG Leadership
For more than 300 years, Guyana’s rum industry has been deeply connected to the country’s economic, industrial, and cultural history. Today, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is demonstrating how one of the Caribbean’s oldest manufacturing companies is evolving into a...
ESG Integration in Caribbean Conglomerates: How ANSA McAL Is Building a Sustainable Future
As Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards reshape global business expectations, Caribbean conglomerates are increasingly being assessed not only on profitability, but also on their long-term environmental stewardship, governance transparency, and...
Authentic Leadership and Low-Carbon Natural Gas Production in Trinidad and Tobago
From the Caribbean’s first offshore platform powered entirely by renewable energy to low-carbon upstream production models designed for stranded gas fields, DeNovo is demonstrating how Trinidad and Tobago’s energy sector can evolve toward a lower-carbon future...
Food Security and Agricultural Innovation in Jamaica: How Seprod Is Connecting Farming, Technology, and Regional Food Resilience
As CARICOM intensifies efforts to reduce the region’s food import dependency, Seprod Foundation’s Budding Farmers Grow Club is helping prepare a new generation for the future of agriculture, food security, and agri-tech innovation in Jamaica. Why Food Security Matters...
How CIBC Caribbean Is Investing in Regional Resilience and Sustainable Development
From renewable energy financing to oncology nursing training and youth entrepreneurship support, CIBC Caribbean’s USD $1 million annual social investment strategy is helping shape a more resilient Caribbean. A Regional Commitment Beyond Banking Corporate social...
Shell T&T Is Advancing STEM and STREAM Education in Trinidad and Tobago
From secondary school laboratories to renewable energy innovation, Shell Trinidad and Tobago’s long-term investment in STREAM education is helping to prepare the nation’s youth for the future of work. Why STEM and STREAM Education Matters in Trinidad and Tobago As...
ANSA McAL Human Capital Investment: Redefining CSR Through People-Centred ESG Leadership in a Post-Pandemic Caribbean
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a structural shift in how corporations define success. Across the Caribbean, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is no longer confined to philanthropy or compliance reporting. Instead, it has evolved into a strategic framework...
NGC is Digging Deeper to Help Caribbean Forests Power the Climate Fight
Pioneering carbon sequestration studies in the Caribbean are redefining how Trinidad and Tobago measures climate action, natural capital, and sustainable forest management. Climate change discussions often focus on advanced technologies, renewable energy systems, and...
Listening, Learning and Leading: How Methanex Trinidad Is Redefining Employee Engagement in a Post-Pandemic World
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the relationship between employers, employees, and communities. Across the globe, organisations were forced to rethink operations, accelerate digital transformation, and place greater emphasis on employee wellbeing,...
Metro Guyana’s Education-First CSR Strategy Is Transforming Opportunity in Guyana
In a rapidly digitising Caribbean economy, corporate social responsibility is no longer measured solely by donations or charitable events. Increasingly, businesses are being evaluated on how effectively they create sustainable, measurable social impact. In Guyana,...
Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Sustainability Initiatives: Building “A Better Tomorrow” Beyond the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped economies, communities, and corporate responsibility across the globe. In the Caribbean, where many economies rely heavily on tourism and single-source exports, the disruption exposed structural vulnerabilities in healthcare, education,...
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Features
Conversational AI Development in Guyana: How Local Talent Is Building a Global Tech Future
Far from the traditional North American centres of technological innovation, a new generation of software engineers in Guyana is quietly reshaping the future of Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI). In collaborative workspaces and virtual development hubs,...
The Impact of AI Automation on Regional Job Markets: How Caribbean Economies Can Leapfrog into the 4th Industrial Revolution
“It is our developing status within the region, particularly with regard to technological adoption, that presents a unique advantage. It affords us more time to prepare for the impacts of automation on human resourcing.” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming...
ESG Framework in Trinidad and Tobago: How Businesses Are Futureproofing for a Sustainable Future
“Adhering to an ESG framework means you are future-proofing your business.” — Javier Rodríguez Soler The global business environment changed permanently after the COVID-19 pandemic. Climate instability, social inequality, governance failures, and supply chain...
It Takes a Village: How Parenting Support in Trinidad is Transforming Families
It’s a scene that still lingers: a crowded school assembly, a frustrated parent, and a child who simply couldn’t sit still. What looked like defiance was, in reality, something deeper—a gap in understanding, resources, and support. Today, stories like that are exactly...
From St. Jude’s to Success: How One Trinidad Institution Is Transforming Lives
A Saturday Afternoon That Tells a Bigger Story It’s just before 1:00 PM on a Saturday in St. James. Over lunch, two young women—Adasha and Patricia—share a story that is difficult to express and yet very inspiring. Their journey is not just personal. It is proof that...
The Evolution of CSR in Trinidad & Tobago: Aligning with the UN Global Compact and Corporate Reputation
The UN Global Compact and Corporate Social Responsibility In January 1999, Kofi Annan challenged the global business community to adopt a shared framework for responsible corporate behaviour through the United Nations Global Compact. The UN Global Compact Principles...
Guyana’s Entrepreneurship Community Is Building More Than Businesses — It’s Building a Movement
A few young Guyanese entrepreneurs gather online for a conversation. Among them are a uniform maker, a natural haircare entrepreneur, and a fashion designer inspired by Indigenous culture. Guiding the discussion are more experienced business leaders: a social media...
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Corporate Philanthropy vs. Strategic CSR: Creating Shared Value
Corporate Philanthropy vs. Strategic CSR: Creating Shared Value By Esther Le Gendre, Managing Director of Bridge Consultants and Certified CSR Auditor In the ever-evolving business of communications and stakeholder management, debates about the role of companies in...
Corporate Sustainability vs CSR: Why Sustainable Business Strategy Is the Future
Over the last decade, the conversation has shifted from Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to a broader, more strategic concept: corporate sustainability. What was once viewed as philanthropy or corporate charity is now recognised as a core business strategy—one...
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Guyana Distillers Limited
Headed by President and Chairman Mr. Komal Samaroo, the management team of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has focused the Group on value-added brand development and diversification of its sources of revenue. With an operating profit of US $16.9 million in 2015 and...
Social issues are everybody’s business
Guyana is a multi-ethnic society, rich in culture, and with vast mineral resources, much of which remains untapped. With the advent of oil, the country is poised for a major turn around and all the world is watching – none more closely than its closest Caribbean...
Jason Julien
You’ve seen him on the television advertising series which aims to build awareness about violence against women and children. Jason Julien, along with a number of other business leaders volunteered to participate in a project of successful fashion designer and...
Living in Community
There’s an old Trini adage that says, “Is who live in the house know where it leaking”. A quick translation in the PowerGen context means, “Those who live in a community would best know its needs.” This is why PowerGen’s CSR principles of employee volunteerism...
New GPC
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) set out a vision for ending poverty, hunger and inequality, and protecting the Earth’s natural resources by 2030. These goals are reflected in New GPC’s Social Investment strategy through its focus on health...
Owning Your Future
By Jaysen Francis An entrepreneurial mindset together with the right mix of knowledge and skills can create the opportunity for building small businesses thatpropelscompetitiveness in the local economy. So, thinks Jaysen Francis, owner and founder of Shuffran...
The Power to Make Things Happen
Nadia Williams - Social Investment Officer, is proud and humbled to be part of the team and infrastructure that develop financial and societal health among citizens through social interventions, under the pillars of ‘Power to Help’, ‘Power to Care’, ‘Power to Learn’,...
RBC Employees Give Back to Youth
In 2015, 15-year-old Kristohn Lewis fell ill. He’d had a fever off and on for some time, but it kept climbing and his mother couldn’t get it down. Now it was accompanied by a searing headache. Not long after, Kristohn was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma – a...
So You Call This CSR
It’s not a good sign when an entire profession can’t agree on what to call itself. Here’s a short list: Corporate responsibility (CR), sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainable development, corporate accountability, creating shared value...
Strengthening the Brand Inside Out
CSR experts today increasingly prefer the term Shared Value Agenda to the more familiar Corporate Social Responsibility. At Sagicor Life Inc Trinidad and Tobago, it’s particularly apt. The financial service company’s culture of volunteerism, encouraged by an...
The St Dominic’s Children’s Home
by Robert Clarke Sister Arlene Greenidge could use some targeted corporate hand-holding. At the top of a hill off Belmont Circular Road, she presides over the St Dominic’s Children’s Home, which houses 60 socially displaced children. It’s not so much...
The Sterling Stewart Royal Reading Room
By Robert Clarke “Because these are guys who live in the moment. One of the reasons they’re in trouble is because they can’t see consequences from what they do at this moment.” by Robert Clarke The walls of the old condemned cells in the Port of Spain...