John Bazill, an of­fi­cial re­spon­si­ble for trade re­la­tions with the Caribbean in the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion’s Trade De­part­ment, is en­cour­ag­ing T&T to rat­i­fy the long-out­stand­ing Eco­nom­ic Part­ner­ship Agree­ment (EPA) with the Eu­ro­pean Union.

In an era de­fined by re­silience and in­no­va­tion, the 2025 Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion (TIC) is prov­ing to be more than just a trade show—it’s a launch­pad for small busi­ness­es ready to scale, ex­port, and thrive.

Ef­fec­tive Ju­ly 17, the Gov­ern­ment of Bermu­da now re­quires T&T pass­port hold­ers to have a valid Cana­di­an, UK or US visa to en­ter the coun­try. On Ju­ly 16, Bermu­da’s Min­istry of Econ­o­my and Labour re­voked the Bermu­da Im­mi­gra­tion and Pro­tec­tion (Pro­hi­bi­tion of En­try) Or­der 2025 and re­placed it with the Bermu­da Im­mi­gra­tion and Pro­tec­tion (Pro­hi­bi­tion of En­try) (No 2) Or­der 2025.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, said the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE) yes­ter­day will not dis­rupt busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty or im­pact in­vestor con­fi­dence whether on the do­mes­tic, re­gion­al or in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el.

Busi­ness groups and an en­er­gy ex­pert see the move by the Gov­ern­ment to ap­point a 12-mem­ber com­mit­tee to de­vel­op a strat­e­gy for the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery’s re­ac­ti­va­tion and sub­mit a re­port by Oc­to­ber as a step in the right di­rec­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change Ltd (TTSE) has be­come the newest mem­ber of the Unit­ed Na­tions Sus­tain­able Stock Ex­changes (UN SSE) ini­tia­tive.

With T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor brac­ing for the im­pact of the Eu­ro­pean Union’s Car­bon Bor­der Ad­just­ment Mech­a­nism (CBAM) in ear­ly 2026, one EU of­fi­cial says there’s still rea­son for op­ti­mism and po­ten­tial for trans­for­ma­tion.

Ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion—uni­ver­si­ties and oth­er tech­ni­cal in­sti­tutes—can of­ten feel like gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties re­served for the elite but those gates will be more open to peo­ple while at the same time en­abling these fa­cil­i­ties to make their own mon­ey.

The lo­cal busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is grow­ing in­creas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed over per­sis­tent bu­reau­crat­ic bot­tle­necks at the coun­try’s ports. Ten ma­jor busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions voiced their con­cerns dur­ing a sym­po­sium on the op­er­a­tions of Cus­toms host­ed by the Cou­va/Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce on Wednes­day.

For decades, Caribbean tourism has been syn­ony­mous with sun, sea, and sand. These nat­ur­al as­sets re­main a source of beau­ty, pride, and eco­nom­ic promise.

Since De­cem­ber 2023, ten Massy Hold­ings se­nior ex­ec­u­tives and in­de­pen­dent non-ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tors have de­part­ed from the com­pa­ny, ac­cord­ing to the ma­te­r­i­al dis­clo­sure no­tices post­ed by the com­pa­ny, one of the largest, old­est and most prof­itable and ge­o­graph­i­cal­ly di­verse groups in the Cari­com re­gion. (See side­bar)

EY‘s strat­e­gy and trans­ac­tion team is now known as EY Parthenon. This change brings to­geth­er the firm’s glob­al strat­e­gy and trans­ac­tions pow­er­house un­der a sin­gle, uni­fied brand. The of­fi­cial launch of EY Parthenon was held at The Samaan Es­tate on Ju­ly 10, where the re­gion­al team was in­tro­duced to a wide cross-sec­tion of EY clients.