In a coun­try where sev­er­al busi­ness­es still do not al­low for LINX trans­ac­tions, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert raised a few eye­brows re­cent­ly when he gave a tar­get for Trinidad and To­ba­go to be­come a cash­less so­ci­ety.

Nestlé’s mar­ket head for the An­glo-Dutch Caribbean re­gion Jo­sué De La Maza has ad­mit­ted the com­pa­ny did not get it right the first time it tried to in­tro­duce pa­per straws to ac­com­pa­ny their drinks lo­cal­ly, but they are com­mit­ted to get­ting it done prop­er­ly for the sake of the en­vi­ron­ment.

A com­bi­na­tion of a fall in the sale of new cars, in­creased de­mand for used parts and a change in its busi­ness strat­e­gy has re­sult­ed in Massy Mo­tors now go­ing in­to the re­tail sale of ve­hi­cle parts.

Jean-Pierre Du Coudray, Massy Mo­tors’ Se­nior Vice-Pres­i­dent at the of­fi­cial launch yes­ter­day said the re­tail part of the busi­ness is “every­thing au­to­mo­tive.”

Caribbean Air­lines has been rat­ed a Four-Star Ma­jor Air­line by its pas­sen­gers, in the APEX Of­fi­cial Air­line Rat­ings for 2022.

The three-gen­er­a­tion fam­i­ly com­pa­ny Mon­tano’s Choco­late has opened a fac­to­ry in Arou­ca, which is ex­pect­ed to in­crease its pro­duc­tion ca­pac­i­ty by 460 per cent.

The La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (LABID­CO) has do­nat­ed a 3kW (kilo­watt) so­lar pho­to­volta­ic (PV) sys­tem to La Brea res­i­dent, Cindy Williams—pro­vid­ing her with a re­li­able sup­ply of elec­tric­i­ty for the first time in 15 years.

Soon Caribbean Air­lines pas­sen­gers will be able to fly on the first of the air­line’s brand new Max 8 air­craft, but the re­al ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the move could be CAL’s bot­tom line with sig­nif­i­cant cost sav­ings from low­er fu­el con­sump­tion, less main­te­nance costs and im­por­tant­ly, less car­bon emis­sion.

With soar­ing wheat prices, sig­nalling more food in­fla­tion world-wide, Ian Mitchell Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer at the Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) says the com­pa­ny may have no choice but to re­view prices if cur­rent trends con­tin­ue.

Over the last week crude oil prices tum­bled more than 15 per cent on the news of a new vari­ant of the coro­n­avirus which ini­tial­ly ap­peared to be high­ly con­ta­gious, may be bet­ter at by­pass­ing vac­cines and is the most mu­tat­ed so far.

Speak­ing at day two of the vir­tu­al UN-T&T Big Da­ta fo­rum themed, "The Trans­for­ma­tion­al Role of Big Da­ta Tech­nolo­gies and An­a­lyt­ics —Eco­nom­ic Trans­for­ma­tion, Im­bert added that the rights of users will re­main at the fore­front of any pol­i­cy gov­ern­ing Big Da­ta.

“This tran­si­tion unites the lega­cies of two strong, well-re­spect­ed, re­gion­al fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions which have been op­er­at­ing in the Caribbean for well over four decades,’ a re­lease stat­ed yes­ter­day.