Senior column: Small interactions make the biggest impact
Short encounters shaped my college years
My time at Binghamton has been influenced by small interactions.
I came to Binghamton University as a transfer student from Stony Brook University. When I was transferring out, the academic advisers refused to help me leave the University, instead telling me to spend another semester there before making a concrete decision. But during my time there, I felt mutuality with so few people, and I felt I couldn’t achieve the things that I wanted to only my writing professor was willing to help me transfer out.
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Economists: Removing tax concessions on cars will have little effect on forex
Thursday 31 December 2020
The Central Bank’s Economic Indicator report said between January and October this year, 7,256 new vehicles were sold. Of those, 4,793 were for private use. - ROGER JACOB
Covid19, the disease that dominated every aspect of life for 2020, did more than claim more than a million lives and counting, it shut down the world. Because of the measures needed to stop its ceaseless spread oil and gas prices plummeted, industries shut down, and companies, if only to survive, furloughed thousands of employees worldwide.
The outlook wasn’t much different for Trinidad and Tobago. While the country was managing the virus from a public health perspective, it wreaked havoc on the economy. So it was no surprise that when Finance Minister Colm Imbert presented the 2020/2021 budget on October 5, it would have a focus on recovery from the damage that 2020 and covid19 had done.