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
On the 16th of May, 2020, the Prime Minister announced that Phase 2 of the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions and measures will be pulled forward to Thursday 21st May, 2020 (having been initially scheduled to begin on...