In fact, a recent Institutional Investor magazine global survey of banking executives names Trinidad and Tobago as the Caribbean region's most secure investment location. We have a history of doing what we say. NGC, in fact, is still working from contracts that date from the country's independence in 1962. Those contracts have not been tinkered with or renegotiated, despite several changes of government since then. It has export market access with the United States, the European Union, Canada and numerous other nations via special agreement.
Investors can bring money in and bring it out again.
And foreign firms can own 100 percent of a company. Yet another big asset is the country's skilled work force, renowned for its cooperative spirit. Moreover, labor costs in Trinidad and Tobago are extremely competitive. What Executives Say Perhaps nothing is more valuable to a potential investor in evaluating location alternatives than the experiences of existing corporate citizens. Those firms' executives know what the labor force is really like.