Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh has urged Caribbean na­tions and their Latin Amer­i­can part­ners to em­brace strate­gic south-to-south co­op­er­a­tion as a trans­for­ma­tive path­way for re­silience, com­pet­i­tive­ness and in­clu­sive growth. He made the call while ad­dress­ing a Caribbean De­vel­op­ment sem­i­nar host­ed by the Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held yes­ter­day at the Hilton, where the min­is­ter un­der­scored the ur­gency of mov­ing be­yond sym­bol­ic ges­tures to­ward pur­pose­ful, re­source-ori­ent­ed col­lab­o­ra­tion.

From 2026, strate­gies to em­bold­en many of T&T’s top in­dus­tries through the use of Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) will be stud­ied at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus.

Whether you’re but­ter­ring a baguette or slic­ing in­to a crois­sant, most peo­ple may not give much thought to whether their favourite bread or pas­try has an in­ter­na­tion­al seal of ap­proval.

Cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Nicholas Ram­sey, own­er of N Ram­sey Con­sul­tan­cy, and Crime Stop­pers di­rec­tor Dar­rin Carmichael are warn­ing busi­ness­es and home­own­ers to be es­pe­cial­ly alert this Christ­mas sea­son, stress­ing that crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty be­comes more ag­gres­sive, op­por­tunis­tic, and strate­gi­cal­ly planned at this time of year.  

Eight months in­to the term of a new ad­min­is­tra­tion and on the cusp of a new cal­en­dar year, T&T’s eco­nom­ic nar­ra­tive is de­fined by three con­verg­ing themes: limp growth, for­eign ex­change con­straints and a wa­ver­ing en­er­gy out­look.

ANSA McAL, and one of its sub­sidiaries, have emerged vic­to­ri­ous in a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar le­gal bat­tle with the Ger­man ship­ping gi­ant Ha­pag-Lloyd AG over a ship­ment of chem­i­cals which spilled af­ter leav­ing T&T.

Navin Dook­er­an, CEO of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ex­im­Bank), was yes­ter­day ter­mi­nat­ed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, Guardian Me­dia has learned. No of­fi­cial rea­son for his sud­den de­par­ture was pro­vid­ed.

Flow Trinidad has no­ti­fied its cus­tomers that it will be up­dat­ing its ca­ble tele­vi­sion line­up in light of re­cent­ly is­sued guide­lines by Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (TATT).

Di­ver­si­fied, pub­licly list­ed Agos­ti­ni said yes­ter­day that the com­pa­ny does not dom­i­nate the pro­cure­ment of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals for the pub­lic sec­tor or the lo­cal phar­ma­cy sec­tor.

Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for the Con­struc­tion In­dus­try (JCC) pres­i­dent Fazir Khan has cau­tioned against fram­ing the con­struc­tion sec­tor’s cur­rent slow­down as a melt­down trig­gered by any sin­gle com­pa­ny, in­sist­ing the pres­sures now sur­fac­ing are the re­sult of long-stand­ing struc­tur­al prob­lems for which in­dus­try lead­ers should have an­tic­i­pat­ed and planned.

Se­nior of­fi­cials at Ju­nior Sam­my Con­trac­tors Ltd have dis­missed re­ports that all per­ma­nent em­ploy­ees of the com­pa­ny were is­sued with fur­lough no­tices up to the end of Jan­u­ary, in­sist­ing the claim is “com­plete­ly un­true” and based on in­ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion.

Dr Mar­garet Satya Rose’s analy­sis of the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion’s re­cent com­mu­niqué cor­rect­ly high­lights the le­gal and gov­er­nance im­por­tance of ro­bust an­nu­al pro­cure­ment plan­ning.