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motorsports team for whom Edoo himself drag races
motorcycles, both in the country and at tracks across
the Caribbean region.
A simple online search, in fact, yields a vast collection
of still images and videos of him speeding past.
“It’s pretty good. I’m the best in the country, I guess,”
he said. “It is a big sport here, but we have a lot of red
tape in terms of the government building tracks. We
have one track, but it’s like an old airstrip. It’s nothing
really solid. They don’t invest much into the sport –
they invest in other sports like cricket and football – so
all the enthusiasts have to travel to Grenada, St. Lucia
and even some go to Florida.
“It’s pretty costly to be involved in the sport in Trini-
dad.”
The cadre of companies are run separately and don’t
operate under the same roof, Edoo said, those his
executive position with the overarching Edoo’s Group
means an across-the-board oversight role.
The welding operation has 60 employees across two
branches in Trinidad and another on Tobago. There
are no physical locations outside the country, but busi-
ness is done with off-island clients in St. Lucia, Barba-
dos, St. Vincent and Grenada. Trinidad is the largest
welding market in the region, due both to its own sig-
nificant energy business and the comparative lack of
activity in other regional locations.
Most of Edoo’s customers come in the form of domes-
tic manufacturing businesses, and the company also
holds a weekly in-house training session so vocational
students can get a hands-on feel for the sorts of equip-
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