The Caribbean Tourism Mar­ket is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing un­prece­dent­ed lev­els of growth, but while many Caribbean Is­lands are cel­e­brat­ing this re­bound, T&T will be left out of the cel­e­bra­tion as this coun­try record­ed one of the weak­est per­for­mances in the re­gion.

Al­though the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union is con­fi­dent in its bid to ac­quire the moth­balled Pointe-a-Pierre Re­fin­ery, the union is still call­ing for an­swers over the shut­ting down of Petrotrin.
In his Labour Day speech at Char­lie King Junc­tion in Fyz­abad on Wednesday, Ro­get said that it was his­toric, how many lies a gov­ern­ment had told about one is­sue. 

An­na-María Gar­cía-Brooks, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Group Hu­man Re­sources, Re­pub­lic Bank ad­vised re­cent grad­u­ates of the Youth Link Ap­pren­tice­ship Pro­gramme to em­brace all of life’s op­por­tu­ni­ties, even those which are chal­leng­ing.

On the eve of Labour Day the Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Michael An­nisette has said the time for so­cial jus­tice is now.

A study by Dr Ter­rence Far­rell has found that the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the down­stream petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor is un­der threat be­cause of un­com­pet­i­tive nat­ur­al gas prices.

Should T&T con­serve 10 per cent of the gas it cur­rent­ly us­es T&TEC would save TT$100 mil­lion per an­num.

Growth in the US mar­ket re­sult­ed in im­proved per­for­mance for the Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) for the first quar­ter of 2019 ac­cord­ing to Nigel Ed­wards, Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor, UTC.

The great­est achieve­ment of the out­go­ing chair­man of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) Ger­ry Brooks was his abil­i­ty to re­duce the claims against the com­pa­ny, $4.2 bil­lion, to man­age­able pro­por­tions ac­cord­ing to En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan.

Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter, Paula Gopee-Scoon is pro­mot­ing T&T’s in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties to US firms in­ter­est­ed in ex­pand­ing their busi­ness­es in the Caribbean. 

For­mer Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment Ad­vi­so­ry Board (EDAB) chair­man Dr Ter­rence Far­rell is ad­vis­ing that a sep­a­rate en­er­gy in­sti­tute, com­pris­ing ex­perts in the en­er­gy sec­tor and work­ing along­side the En­er­gy Min­istry, be es­tab­lished.

The Caribbean must as­pire to be en­er­gy ef­fi­cient as the re­gion is one of the world’s largest un­tapped sources of re­new­able en­er­gy, with po­ten­tial in so­lar, wind, ge­ot­her­mal and ma­rine en­er­gy.

Gov­ern­ment says this coun­try stands to ben­e­fit from an en­hanced rev­enue pack­age for the sale of LNG fol­low­ing the sign­ing of a new en­er­gy agree­ment be­tween T&T and Shell at the en­er­gy com­pa­ny’s head­quar­ters in The Hague, Nether­lands on Wednesday.