De­spite some hold­ing reser­va­tions about busi­ness in the cap­i­tal, Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL) has said it will con­tin­ue to in­vest in its Port-of-Spain op­er­a­tions.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) and ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of South­ern Sales & Ser­vice Com­pa­ny Im­ti­az Ahamad is hop­ing to keep Kia as the num­ber one brand in new car sales in the coun­try, de­spite a mas­sive in­crease in com­pe­ti­tion in the lo­cal mar­ket.

T&T In­sur­ance Ltd (Tatil) and Colo­nial Fire & Gen­er­al In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny Ltd (Colfire) are seek­ing to for­mal­ly com­bine their op­er­a­tions through a pro­posed amal­ga­ma­tion that will cre­ate a sin­gle le­gal en­ti­ty from Jan­u­ary 1, 2027, sub­ject to ap­proval from the Cen­tral Bank.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has hint­ed that the 2027 fis­cal bud­get ex­er­cise could be­gin in Oc­to­ber, telling new­ly ap­point­ed per­ma­nent sec­re­taries that their lead­er­ship will be vi­tal as Gov­ern­ment en­ters the next phase of bud­get prepa­ra­tion.

ANSA McAL has ap­point­ed Na­tal­ie Abra­hams as ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, Bar­ba­dos and the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS), in a new­ly cre­at­ed role aimed at strength­en­ing the group’s pres­ence and growth across the East­ern Caribbean.

In a press re­lease on Mon­day, the Ja­maican com­pa­ny con­firmed it had ac­quired the re­main­ing 55 per cent in­ter­est and was tak­ing full own­er­ship of the com­pa­ny just about two years af­ter the PBS Group first in­vest­ed in it.

Pre­mier Restau­rants CEO Vish­nu Ma­haraj has pushed back against so­cial me­dia crit­i­cism re­gard­ing menu prices at the new­ly opened Ap­ple­bee’s and IHOP at Grand Bazaar, as­sur­ing cus­tomers that the US din­ing chains of­fer af­ford­able op­tions for lo­cal din­ers.

There have been re­peat­ed calls for greater at­ten­tion to be paid to re­search in small is­land de­vel­op­ing states (SIDS) in­clud­ing the Caribbean.

On Sep­tem­ber 2, 2026, the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) bought an ad­di­tion­al 4,430,161 of the is­sued share cap­i­tal of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd. The share price of RFHL closed at $110 on Sep­tem­ber 1, which means NIBTT would have paid in the re­gion of $487,317,710 ($487.31 mil­lion) for the shares when the trade took place on Sep­tem­ber 2.

It is one of the ques­tions I get asked most of­ten when­ev­er I talk about dig­i­tal pay­ments, fin­tech and in­ter­na­tion­al bank­ing.

The name Con­tour Air­lines, not to be con­fused with Ger­man leisure car­ri­er Con­dor Air­lines, prob­a­bly doesn’t ring a bell if you live in the Caribbean. Yet over the past few months, the car­ri­er bet­ter known in the US than in the Caribbean has qui­et­ly been lay­ing the ground­work to be­come a strong com­peti­tor in the re­gion. On Oc­to­ber 5 it will add an­oth­er des­ti­na­tion to its bud­ding Caribbean net­work when it be­gins fly­ing twice week­ly be­tween Trinidad’s Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (POS) and Do­mini­ca’s Dou­glas–Charles Air­port (DOM), with one-stop, same-plane con­nec­tions to St. Thomas (STT) and Puer­to Ri­co (SJU).

Sco­tia­bank T&T Ltd has re­port­ed prof­it af­ter tax­a­tion of $449 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed Ju­ly 2026, a de­crease of $82 mil­lion or 15.47 per cent com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in 2025.