Dig­i­cel (T&T) Ltd is ex­pand­ing its 100 per cent fi­bre net­work across South Trinidad, ex­tend­ing cov­er­age to com­mu­ni­ties in­clud­ing Siparia, Oropouche and Point Fortin.

Calls are in­ten­si­fy­ing for the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism to ur­gent­ly re­store the Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion, as econ­o­mist and for­mer chair­man Dr Ronald Ramkissoon warns that con­tin­ued de­lays are un­der­min­ing the coun­try’s busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment at a crit­i­cal junc­ture.
Ramkissoon, in an in­ter­view yes­ter­day with Guardian Me­dia, cau­tioned that the ab­sence of a func­tion­ing com­mis­sion risks erod­ing in­vestor con­fi­dence and weak­en­ing the frame­work for fair com­pe­ti­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly at a time when T&T needs to strength­en its eco­nom­ic re­silience.
“One would have thought the in­com­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion would have made it eas­i­er to do busi­ness when the reg­u­la­to­ry en­vi­ron­ment is not be­ing put in place.

Ma­tu­ri­ty, dis­ci­pline, and a clin­i­cal per­for­mance from “Most Valu­able Play­er” (MVP) Akeira Charles pro­pelled Five Rivers Sec­ondary School to their third con­sec­u­tive Open Girls’ ti­tle in the Sec­ondary Schools Bas­ket­ball League (SS­BL) Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships, which con­clud­ed on Fri­day.

Amid a year marked by can­celled jazz events and tight­en­ing fund­ing, the I Am Jazz Fes­ti­val is chart­ing a dif­fer­ent course—one de­fined not by re­treat, but by rein­ven­tion.

The peren­ni­al is­sue of the fi­nan­cial vi­a­bil­i­ty of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is again fig­ur­ing in na­tion­al dis­course, os­ten­si­bly cen­tred around mak­ing the air­line prof­itable again.