Crowe Howarth enters local financial services market By Carla Bridglal Thursday, August 31 2017 INTERNATIONAL auditing and business consulting firm Crowe Howarth will be opening two offices in the country— one in Port of Spain, Trinidad and another in Scarborough, Tobago. “As a professional service, we provide business solutions recognising that the country (has) challenges. We have the capability to assist,” Dawkins Brown, the company’s managing partner for the Caribbean told the audience on Tuesday during the official launch at the Trinidad Hilton and Conference Centre, St Ann’s. The company recognises this country has a kind of resilience for growth despite going through some “choppy waters,” he said, but the country’s problems are not localised, and Crowe Howarth is an international firm, so it had the capability to leverage that global network to help its local clients. He said small and medium enterprises will be able to access the firm’s services through a special pricing stra...

The opportunity to find a job or develop one’s business idea is crucial for most people’s personal satisfaction. It creates a sense of belonging and purpose and can provide an income that delivers financial stability. It can raise people out of poverty or prevent them from falling into it. But what does one need to find a job or to start a business, especially if that job or business is in the private sector? Many things are needed, but well-functioning markets—that are properly regulated so that distortions are minimized—are crucial. Governments play a pivotal role in establishing these well-functioning markets through regulation.  If the land registry is not required to provide reliable information on who owns what, for example, the efficacy of the property market is undermined making it difficult for entrepreneurs to acquire property, put their ideas to practice and create new jobs. Without well-regulated credit information sharing systems it is difficult for credit ma...