The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked financial havoc on businesses worldwide. While its impact has varied widely by industry, there is no doubt that it has had a profound impact on the airline industry, throwing it into extreme turbulence....
“Guava season” is often used to describe a period of economic hardship. As someone who grew up in the rural countryside and spent many an august holiday raiding my grandmother’s guava tree to make chow and “helping” my...
In the recent UK case of WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2018] EWCA Civ 2339 an employer was found legally liable after the personal and confidential data of thousands of its employees leaked online. What made...
Digital Footprint? Is that a new App?Nope – “Digital Footprint” simply put, refers to the data that a person generates when using the internet whether by online shopping, clicking the “Like” or “reaction” button on social media,...
During the first and second quarters of 2020, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago experienced relative success in its attempt to “flatten the curve” by minimising the spread of Covid-19 within the country. The implementation of measures of...
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought us new words such as ‘covidiot’ and ‘maskne’, and popularised terms like ‘social distancing’ and ‘flatten the curve’. For many business and legal professionals, the term ‘force majeure’ has also become very popular....
This Article first appeared in the Sunday 7th June, 2020 edition of the Trinidad Business Guardian. The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting restrictions on the operation of non-essential businesses pushed many employers into implementing temporary working from home arrangements in...
On May 22, 2020, Hamel-Smith hosted its second webinar with the theme "Getting Back to Business". Access the slide deck here and view a recording of the webinar
