By any se­ri­ous mea­sure, T&T’s stock mar­ket is in trou­ble. Not cycli­cal trou­ble. Not a short-term cor­rec­tion, but struc­tur­al trou­ble.

In this space on Jan­u­ary 15, 2026, un­der the head­line, ‘When will T&T’s for­eign re­serves run out?’ I re­port­ed the fol­low­ing;

GraceKennedy (GK) has named Massy Dis­tri­b­u­tion as its new dis­tri­b­u­tion part­ner for food and bev­er­age prod­ucts man­aged by its sub­sidiary, Grace Foods Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (Grace Foods LA­CA).

In re­sponse to so­cial me­dia com­ments on Feb­ru­ary 1, sug­gest­ing pos­si­ble mis­con­duct with­in busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions, the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is reaf­firm­ing that the coun­try has long-es­tab­lished and proven mech­a­nisms for ad­dress­ing al­le­ga­tions of wrong­do­ing in any pub­lic or pri­vate of­fice or in­sti­tu­tion.

For decades, the eco­nom­ic nar­ra­tive of T&T has been dom­i­nat­ed by the ebb and flow of the en­er­gy sec­tor. While oil and gas have long been the ti­tans of rev­enue, a qui­et gi­ant has steadi­ly grown to form the true back­bone of the na­tion­al econ­o­my. As we look to­ward the da­ta from 2023 through 2025, a new re­al­i­ty is crys­tal clear: the ser­vices sec­tor is not mere­ly a sup­port­ing play­er; it is the largest com­po­nent of the T&T econ­o­my and its work­force.

The Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence has of­fi­cial­ly launched an AI Acad­e­my, a six-month pi­lot pro­gramme de­signed to strength­en ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) com­pe­ten­cies across T&T’s pub­lic ser­vice.

On Jan­u­ary 26, 2026, the Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Jagdeo Singh, chaired the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (Pt. 2) on the State’s ac­qui­si­tion of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.

Of­ten times in a dis­cus­sion around stock mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty there is ref­er­ence to a “herd men­tal­i­ty”. This is the ten­den­cy to fol­low an es­tab­lished group or pat­tern of be­hav­ior with­out the crit­i­cal think­ing that an evolv­ing sit­u­a­tion would de­mand.

For the past few years, lo­cal deal­ers pro­mot­ing the sale of elec­tric ve­hi­cles (EVs) have tout­ed the cost-ef­fec­tive­ness of switch­ing to such ve­hi­cles.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance and Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh yes­ter­day ac­knowl­edged that Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd’s de­ci­sion to raise ce­ment prices will place ad­di­tion­al pres­sure on con­sumers, while stress­ing that con­tin­ued en­gage­ment be­tween Gov­ern­ment and the pri­vate sec­tor re­mains cen­tral to nav­i­gat­ing ris­ing costs in the econ­o­my.

Cin­e­maONE Group end­ed the 2025 fi­nan­cial year with high­er rev­enue and stronger un­der­ly­ing op­er­at­ing per­for­mance, even as ac­count­ing-dri­ven lease charges and fi­nanc­ing pres­sures pushed loss­es wider.

T&T’s co­coa in­dus­try en­tered a trans­for­ma­tive new chap­ter yes­ter­day, with the of­fi­cial launch of the Trini­tario Co­coa Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Trade­mark, an ini­tia­tive de­signed to pro­tect, au­then­ti­cate, and el­e­vate one of the coun­try’s most prized agri­cul­tur­al as­sets.