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Friday, August 22, 2025

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Anthony Wilson BG logo

Anthony Wilson BG logo

Can T&T afford to fill 20,000 public service vacancies?

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Anthony Wilson
Thu Aug 21 2025
Emerson John-Charles

Emerson John-Charles

Are we future focussed?

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Emerson John-Charles
Thu Aug 21 2025
Managing  director of Motor City Ltd, Sharona Abdul, stands in front of the company’s new printer which is capable of producing banners 20 feet wide by 250 feet long.

Managing  director of Motor City Ltd, Sharona Abdul, stands in front of the company’s new printer which is capable of producing banners 20 feet wide by 250 feet long.

Photo: Motor City

Motor City goes big with 5,000sf printer

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PETER CHRISTOPHER
Wed Aug 13 2025
CEO and technical director of the Caricom Private Sector Organization,  Dr Patrick Antoine

CEO and technical director of the Caricom Private Sector Organization, Dr Patrick Antoine

CPSO: T&T could take $2B hit from US tariffs

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Anthony Wilson
Thu Aug 21 2025
AS Brydens & Sons Holdings head office in San Juan, Trinidad

AS Brydens & Sons Holdings head office in San Juan, Trinidad

AS Bryden to list on TTSE next week

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Thu Aug 21 2025
Republic Bank’s head office on Park Street in Port-of-Spain

Republic Bank’s head office on Park Street in Port-of-Spain

Republic Bank expands Cayman ownership

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Wed Aug 20 2025
Former Central Bank governor  Dr Alvin Hilaire

Former Central Bank governor Dr Alvin Hilaire

Hilaire sues State for $9.86M for unlawful dismissal

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Wed Aug 20 2025
Central Bank Tower and Ministry of Finance, the financial complex commonly referred to as the Twin Towers in Port-of-Spain yesterday.

Central Bank Tower and Ministry of Finance, the financial complex commonly referred to as the Twin Towers in Port-of-Spain yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

CBTT: US$ imbalance leads to cut in Republic’s forex credit card limit

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Tue Aug 19 2025
A grocery basket full of goods

A grocery basket full of goods

Roberto Codallo

T&T’s inflation remains unchanged at 1.5%

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Tue Aug 19 2025
President of the Owners Dealers Association (ODA) Reval Chattergoon

President of the Owners Dealers Association (ODA) Reval Chattergoon

Business leaders seeing crime reduction

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Raphael John-Lall
Sun Aug 17 2025
Newly married couple  Kimberly Baptiste Norgriff and Keishaun Norgriff after tying the knot at the Red House on August 14, 2025. The couple opted for the simple ceremony to save money which would be reinvested into the couple’s small businesses.

Newly married couple  Kimberly Baptiste Norgriff and Keishaun Norgriff after tying the knot at the Red House on August 14, 2025. The couple opted for the simple ceremony to save money which would be reinvested into the couple’s small businesses.

COURTESY: BOVELL SCOTT

Newly married couple's successful sacrifices

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PETER CHRISTOPHER
Sat Aug 16 2025

More drama for Trinbago Express customers

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Thu Aug 14 2025
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A man smells cannabis grown in an unidentified green house.

A man smells cannabis grown in an unidentified green house.

Cannabis in T&T decriminalised, but not free:

It is 2025, and de­spite claims of progress, T&T re­mains stuck in a cy­cle of emp­ty re­forms and bu­reau­crat­ic stag­na­tion when it comes to cannabis. While some cel­e­brate the de­crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of 30 grams for per­son­al use, the deep­er struc­tur­al in­jus­tices con­tin­ue — block­ing eco­nom­ic growth, cul­tur­al recog­ni­tion, and pub­lic health progress. Cannabis re­mains a po­lit­i­cal pawn, se­lec­tive­ly tol­er­at­ed but not tru­ly lib­er­at­ed.

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Kerwyn Thompson
Thu Aug 21 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and ExxonMobil Upstream company vice-president of global exploration John Ardill shake hands after the signing agreement between the government and ExxonMobil at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, on August 12.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and ExxonMobil Upstream company vice-president of global exploration John Ardill shake hands after the signing agreement between the government and ExxonMobil at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, on August 12.

ROGER JACOB

TTEITI: Will T&T’s deepwater developments be transformative?

The news of Exxon­Mo­bil and the T&T Gov­ern­ment sign­ing a pro­duc­tion shar­ing con­tract to de­vel­op the ul­tra deep­wa­ter block (UD-1) has gar­nered glob­al at­ten­tion. With­in a month, the lat­est deep wa­ter bid round, where 26 deep­wa­ter blocks have been of­fered, will al­so close. There is a gen­uine buzz with­in the lo­cal en­er­gy sec­tor as many view the deep­wa­ter fron­tier as the next chap­ter in the coun­try’s en­er­gy sec­tor sto­ry. De­vel­op­ment of these ex­plo­ration blocks, over the medi­um and long term, is al­so a strate­gic im­per­a­tive. Cur­rent­ly, the coun­try needs to ar­rest the de­cline in oil and gas pro­duc­tion. New gas pro­duc­tion from blocks of­fered will help stem this de­cline and sup­ply more nat­ur­al gas to petro­chem­i­cal plants op­er­at­ing in the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate. De­vel­op­ing this acreage can al­so lead to new busi­ness op­por­tu­ni­ties. There are be­tween 400 and 500 lo­cal en­er­gy ser­vices com­pa­nies that can of­fer their ser­vices in de­vel­op­ing oil and gas blocks and con­tribute to em­ploy­ment and tax­es. But while ex­ploit­ing these blocks is a con­duit to rev­enue and op­por­tu­ni­ties, deep­wa­ter de­vel­op­ments are in­her­ent­ly riski­er and there are sev­er­al rungs to climb be­fore com­pa­nies be­gin to pro­duce oil or gas.

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Sherwin Long
Thu Aug 21 2025
Anthony Wilson BG logo

Anthony Wilson BG logo

Can T&T afford to fill 20,000 public service vacancies?

On the ca­reers por­tal page of web­site of the Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, it is dis­closed that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 35,000 peo­ple are em­ployed in T&T’s civ­il ser­vice in per­ma­nent and tem­po­rary roles across min­istries and de­part­ments. That web­site al­so dis­clos­es that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 21,000 peo­ple work with­in the 14 re­gion­al and mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions. That is 56,000 peo­ple em­ployed in the civ­il ser­vice and in lo­cal gov­ern­ment.

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Anthony Wilson
Thu Aug 21 2025
Emerson John-Charles

Emerson John-Charles

Are we future focussed?

As our politi­cians de­bate pro­grammes such as Mi­LAT, MY­PART, and the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps (CCC), these ini­tia­tives are of­ten pre­sent­ed as op­por­tu­ni­ties for vul­ner­a­ble young peo­ple re­ceiv­ing skill de­vel­op­ment from mil­i­tary-led train­ing to agri­cul­tur­al projects. But the na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tion must move be­yond ask­ing whether these pro­grammes are mere­ly use­ful. The re­al ques­tion is: are they equip­ping these cit­i­zens with the skills need­ed for a rapid­ly chang­ing world? A world where tra­di­tion­al jobs are dis­ap­pear­ing, and emerg­ing fron­tier tech­nolo­gies such as AI, ro­bot­ics, and the In­ter­net of Things are re­shap­ing every in­dus­try. If we are not care­ful, we risk prepar­ing cit­i­zens for jobs that may not even ex­ist three to five years from now.

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Emerson John-Charles
Thu Aug 21 2025
Managing  director of Motor City Ltd, Sharona Abdul, stands in front of the company’s new printer which is capable of producing banners 20 feet wide by 250 feet long.

Managing  director of Motor City Ltd, Sharona Abdul, stands in front of the company’s new printer which is capable of producing banners 20 feet wide by 250 feet long.

Photo: Motor City

Motor City goes big with 5,000sf printer

Re­cent­ly, the com­pa­ny and its af­fil­i­ate com­pa­ny, Ad­ver­tis­ing and Print­ing Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (APCTT), com­mis­sioned a large roll-to-roll print­er, a state-of-the-art ma­chine ca­pa­ble of print­ing ban­ners as large as 20 feet wide by 250 feet long. Pre­vi­ous­ly, ban­ners of that size would re­quire two print­ed ban­ners to be com­bined. The cus­tom-built print­er can print a 5000 square feet ban­ner in an hour.

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PETER CHRISTOPHER
Wed Aug 13 2025
CEO and technical director of the Caricom Private Sector Organization,  Dr Patrick Antoine

CEO and technical director of the Caricom Private Sector Organization, Dr Patrick Antoine

CPSO: T&T could take $2B hit from US tariffs

A re­gion­al pri­vate sec­tor body has pro­ject­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) stands to lose an es­ti­mat­ed US$291.9 mil­lion ($1.98 bil­lion) in po­ten­tial an­nu­al ex­port rev­enue as a re­sult of the im­po­si­tion of the 15 per cent tar­iff on this coun­try’s ex­ports to the Unit­ed States (US).

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Anthony Wilson
Thu Aug 21 2025
AS Brydens & Sons Holdings head office in San Juan, Trinidad

AS Brydens & Sons Holdings head office in San Juan, Trinidad

AS Bryden to list on TTSE next week

AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings Ltd will be list­ed on the T&T Stock Ex­change (TTSE) on Fri­day, Au­gust 29, 2025.

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Thu Aug 21 2025
Republic Bank’s head office on Park Street in Port-of-Spain

Republic Bank’s head office on Park Street in Port-of-Spain

Republic Bank expands Cayman ownership

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) has ex­pand­ed its share­hold­ing in Cay­man Na­tion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CNC).

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Wed Aug 20 2025
Former Central Bank governor  Dr Alvin Hilaire

Former Central Bank governor Dr Alvin Hilaire

Hilaire sues State for $9.86M for unlawful dismissal

For­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire has in­di­cat­ed his in­ten­tion to ini­ti­ate le­gal pro­ceed­ings against the State for the un­law­ful re­vo­ca­tion of his ap­point­ment in June this year.

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Wed Aug 20 2025
Central Bank Tower and Ministry of Finance, the financial complex commonly referred to as the Twin Towers in Port-of-Spain yesterday.

Central Bank Tower and Ministry of Finance, the financial complex commonly referred to as the Twin Towers in Port-of-Spain yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

CBTT: US$ imbalance leads to cut in Republic’s forex credit card limit

Re­pub­lic Bank re­duced the US-dol­lar spend­ing lim­it on some of its cred­it cards by 50 per cent last week as a re­sult of in­creased de­mand for for­eign ex­change and the prospect of re­duced short-term in­flows of for­eign ex­change, a Cen­tral Bank of­fi­cial said yes­ter­day.

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Tue Aug 19 2025
A grocery basket full of goods

A grocery basket full of goods

Roberto Codallo

T&T’s inflation remains unchanged at 1.5%

T&T’s in­fla­tion rate for Ju­ly 2025, which mea­sures the per­cent­age change in the all-items in­dex for the month of Ju­ly 2025 over Ju­ly 2024, was 1.5 per cent, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est da­ta re­leased by the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO).

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Tue Aug 19 2025
President of the Owners Dealers Association (ODA) Reval Chattergoon

President of the Owners Dealers Association (ODA) Reval Chattergoon

Business leaders seeing crime reduction

Last week, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment cel­e­brat­ed its first 100 days in of­fice.

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Raphael John-Lall
Sun Aug 17 2025
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Economist Dr Vanus James

Economist Dr Vanus James

THA INFO DEPT

Be wary of PM’s attack on CAL, says Dr Vanus James

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Thu Aug 21 2025

T&T’s project pipeline in August 2025

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Thu Aug 21 2025
Third from left, Dr Zameer Mohammed, assistant vice president, at University of Trinidad and Tobago, with Minister of Tertiary Education and Skills Training Professor Prakash Persad and Professor Selwyn Cudjoe, chairman of UTT’s board of governors, during a mini tour following the handover of science resource kits in Chaguanas. 

Third from left, Dr Zameer Mohammed, assistant vice president, at University of Trinidad and Tobago, with Minister of Tertiary Education and Skills Training Professor Prakash Persad and Professor Selwyn Cudjoe, chairman of UTT’s board of governors, during a mini tour following the handover of science resource kits in Chaguanas. 

ANDREA PEREZ-SOBERS

Tertiary Education Minister: UTT must commercialise science kits

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Andrea Perez-Sobers
Thu Aug 21 2025
A man smells cannabis grown in an unidentified green house.

A man smells cannabis grown in an unidentified green house.

Cannabis in T&T decriminalised, but not free:

by

Kerwyn Thompson
Thu Aug 21 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and ExxonMobil Upstream company vice-president of global exploration John Ardill shake hands after the signing agreement between the government and ExxonMobil at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, on August 12.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and ExxonMobil Upstream company vice-president of global exploration John Ardill shake hands after the signing agreement between the government and ExxonMobil at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, on August 12.

ROGER JACOB

TTEITI: Will T&T’s deepwater developments be transformative?

by

Sherwin Long
Thu Aug 21 2025
Anthony Wilson BG logo

Anthony Wilson BG logo

Can T&T afford to fill 20,000 public service vacancies?

by

Anthony Wilson
Thu Aug 21 2025
Emerson John-Charles

Emerson John-Charles

Are we future focussed?

by

Emerson John-Charles
Thu Aug 21 2025
Managing  director of Motor City Ltd, Sharona Abdul, stands in front of the company’s new printer which is capable of producing banners 20 feet wide by 250 feet long.

Managing  director of Motor City Ltd, Sharona Abdul, stands in front of the company’s new printer which is capable of producing banners 20 feet wide by 250 feet long.

Photo: Motor City

Motor City goes big with 5,000sf printer

by

PETER CHRISTOPHER
Wed Aug 13 2025
CEO and technical director of the Caricom Private Sector Organization,  Dr Patrick Antoine

CEO and technical director of the Caricom Private Sector Organization, Dr Patrick Antoine

CPSO: T&T could take $2B hit from US tariffs

by

Anthony Wilson
Thu Aug 21 2025
AS Brydens & Sons Holdings head office in San Juan, Trinidad

AS Brydens & Sons Holdings head office in San Juan, Trinidad

AS Bryden to list on TTSE next week

by

Andrea Perez-Sobers
Thu Aug 21 2025
Republic Bank’s head office on Park Street in Port-of-Spain

Republic Bank’s head office on Park Street in Port-of-Spain

Republic Bank expands Cayman ownership

by

Wed Aug 20 2025
Former Central Bank governor  Dr Alvin Hilaire

Former Central Bank governor Dr Alvin Hilaire

Hilaire sues State for $9.86M for unlawful dismissal

by

Andrea Perez-Sobers
Wed Aug 20 2025
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