Have a great idea to develop a world class mobile app? How is it going to be built? What are the important factors to consider while creating an app? As of 2015, there are 4.43 billion mobile users around the world and the number is likely to reach to 5.07 billion by 2019. There are…
Do you sometimes feel that you are stifling when you are inside your home or in your work area? Or do you experience watery eyes, sneezing or itchy skin or throat on entering a building? Then it is likely you may be experiencing the symptoms of an improperly ventilated building. So you may be…
American writer, David Auerbach, said it best: “In Wine there is Wisdom. In Beer there is Freedom. In Water there is Bacteria”. More than just a catchy phrase, it is also true, well at least about water. This article highlights one of the lesser-known waterborne bacteria: Legionella. What is Legionella? Legionellais a pathogenic (disease-causing) group…
Risk Management is not a new subject and it is not one that should be ignored, especially by companies in the Food and Beverage Industry. Risk management’s overall objective is to assure the organization that uncertainty does not deflect from the effort of achieving the business goals. Nothing should be more important to the food…
On Wednesday 3rd May at its flagship hub for innovation, the Centre for Enterprise Development in Freeport, the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI) launched one of its newest services for Innovation called the ‘Innovation Gap Analysis Programme’ (IGAP) which is aimed at fostering and encouraging innovation in Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Innovation is ‘Creativity…
The Caribbean Industrial Research Institute’s (CARIRI’s) Air Quality Management Services (AQMS) and Civil Engineering department recently hosted an information session entitled, “Indoor Environmental Quality- Issues faced in the workplace” at CARIRI’s Centre for Enterprise Development, Innovation Avenue, Freeport as part of their mandate to promote a safe and healthy working environment. The session was well…
The market for smartphones and mobile apps is a closely related market, moreover, withTrinidad and Tobago and other English-speaking Caribbean islands being tiny domestic marketsfor mobile app developers, internationalization is a key strategy for mobile app ventures lookingto scale up.The most recent statistics from the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad andTobago show mobile phone penetration of…
Tiffany Krumins had difficulty giving medicine to a child with special needs. She decided that night to create a special medicine dropper that would make the administering of medicine to children easier. She used the recording device of a greeting card and constructed an elephant head in which she hid the dropper. Ava the Elephant…
