The Pan-African Leadership Institute (PALI) has appointed Vashti Guyadeen, CEO of the TT Coalition of Services, as its new ambassador for TT.

In a release on Friday, PALI said this appointment marks a significant milestone in its mission to foster leadership, collaboration and development within the African diaspora and beyond.

The services sector is the largest in the T&T economy, contributing annually on average $43 billion to its Gross Domestic Product, according to the T&T Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI)

The services sector is diverse, covering business services (professional, computer etc), construction, transport, communications, financial services, tourism/travel, Government operations among others. It employs about 80 per cent of the labour force, some 422,000 people.

The T&T Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) has been nominated and is a finalist in two categories–best conference and best virtual event–in the vFairs Eventeer Awards 2024.

T&T Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) Chief Executive Officer, Vashti Guyadeen is confident that small and medium-sized (SMEs) services companies in both T&T and Belize, will benefit from a new and strategic partnership between the TTCSI and the Belize Coalition of Service Providers (BCSP).

“Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) we at TTCSI have a unique opportunity to share our expertise and experience in building an economic sector with our regional counterpart in Belize,” Guyadeen told the Business Guardian in a statement.

INFORMATION Technology (IT) and the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sectors are topping the list of opportunities for local businesses in Colombia.