While the Uni­fied Pay­ments In­ter­face (UPI) sys­tem has been “mas­sive­ly suc­cess­ful” in In­dia and will be ben­e­fi­cial to T&T, there are oth­er types of dig­i­tal pay­ment sys­tems that T&T can use as the coun­try catch­es up with the rest of the world in adopt­ing non-cash sys­tems.

The Car­ni­val Cat­walk red car­pet pre­mier event show­cased the tal­ent, her­itage and in­no­va­tion of the best of T&T’s cre­ative in­dus­try at Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts on Wednes­day night. The show, pro­duced by Jerome ‘Rome’ Pre­cil­la of Itz Rome En­ter­tain­ment, Rod­ney Seemu­n­gal of SGP Stu­dios and Gi­an Fran­co of Pavil­ion En­ter­tain­ment, cel­e­brat­ed the in­ter­sec­tion of cul­ture and cre­ativ­i­ty. Spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests from gov­ern­ment, the pri­vate sec­tor and the cre­ative in­dus­tries, ar­riv­ing at the venue got to strut the red car­pet greet­ed by Kaiokah Moko-Jumbies be­fore en­ter­ing the Lord Kitch­en­er Au­di­to­ri­um which was a melt­ing pot of Hol­ly­wood meets Car­ni­val. Pho­tos by Roger Ja­cob

Lo­cal in­sur­ance com­pa­nies have ex­pe­ri­ence an in­crease in health in­sur­ance claims, which has had an im­pact on their health plans.

Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon is ea­ger to see in­creased sup­ply of the na­tion­al in­stru­ment to the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket fol­low­ing the re­turn of Chrome Fur­nish­ers Ltd.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon said yes­ter­day the State of Emer­gency (SoE) could im­pact Trinidad and To­ba­go's eco­nom­ic out­look in the eyes of in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings.

De­spite earn­ing $20 mil­lion in rev­enue for the first time, the Cin­e­maONE Group has re­port­ed a net loss of $7.4 mil­lion for fis­cal year 2024.

Sev­er­al pen­sion prod­ucts are sold in the Trinidad and To­ba­go mar­ket, but all pen­sion prod­ucts are not equal. All pen­sion prod­ucts do not have the same risks or pro­vide the same ben­e­fits!

On De­cem­ber 17, 2024, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) post­ed, on its web­site, a cir­cu­lar let­ter to re­port­ing is­suers, bro­ker deal­ers, in­vest­ment ad­vis­ers, un­der­writ­ers and self-reg­u­la­to­ry or­gan­i­sa­tions reg­is­tered un­der the Se­cu­ri­ties Act 2012.

The post read, “The loss of Ms. Daisy is im­mea­sur­able, for she was a vi­sion­ary leader and a benev­o­lent soul. Ms. Daisy lives on in our hearts.”

En­er­gy econ­o­mist Fran­cis­co Monal­di is hop­ing that eco­nom­ics trump pol­i­tics at the end of day and T&T’s en­er­gy deals with Venezuela will sur­vive, de­spite the po­lit­i­cal un­cer­tain­ty in T&T, Venezuela and the US.

State-con­trolled Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) is on a con­tin­ued path of growth and ex­pan­sion in 2025.

The eco­nom­ic poli­cies of the Unit­ed States may be a ma­jor aid or a ma­jor ob­sta­cle to trade in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, ac­cord­ing to the Mas­ter­card Eco­nom­ics In­sti­tute (MEI).