A rough start, which gave way to a strong fin­ish in 2025, has giv­en the ANSA McAL group en­cour­age­ment that mo­men­tum is in their favour.

Af­ter more than a decade of wait­ing, the Debe cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is set to open lat­er this year, with the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in south is ex­pect­ing it to boost eco­nom­ic and busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty in the area.

The Cen­tral Bank of T&T has main­tained its re­po rate at 3.50 per cent, con­tin­u­ing a cy­cle of sta­bil­i­ty that it first in­tro­duced in March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

In an econ­o­my where ris­ing costs are squeez­ing mar­gins and con­sumers are spend­ing more care­ful­ly, build­ing a high-end restau­rant is a cal­cu­lat­ed risk.  

New­ly-elect­ed pres­i­dent of the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) Emil Ramkissoon said the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s leg­isla­tive com­mit­tee con­tin­ues to mon­i­tors leg­is­la­tion which can po­ten­tial­ly af­fect its mem­ber­ship such as Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Prop­er­ty Bill, a piece of leg­is­la­tion the TTMA has pub­licly cham­pi­oned as a cor­ner­stone for eco­nom­ic trans­paren­cy.

An an­nounce­ment will be made soon con­cern­ing the fu­ture of the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, but dis­cus­sions be­tween the Hilton group and the Gov­ern­ment of T&T are on­go­ing, Min­is­ter of Land & Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein said yes­ter­day.

While there have been more food park out­lets open­ing in re­cent months, there have been some shake ups at some more es­tab­lished lo­ca­tions.

Massy Dis­tri­b­u­tion Trinidad has an­nounced a strate­gic part­ner­ship with Uma­mi In­cor­po­rat­ed of Guyana to dis­trib­ute its pre­mi­um range of “Made in Guyana” sauces and condi­ments across T&T.

Just a cou­ple weeks ago, most peo­ple, if asked to lo­cate the Strait of Hor­muz on a map, would not know where to place the mark. The out­break of hos­til­i­ties be­tween the US and Is­rael on one hand, and Iran on the oth­er, has brought this nar­row pas­sage be­tween Iran and the Ara­bi­an Penin­su­la in­to sharp fo­cus. Yet most peo­ple don’t have a full ap­pre­ci­a­tion of how this sit­u­a­tion will im­pact their dai­ly lives.

In de­liv­er­ing the 2026 bud­get on Oc­to­ber 13, 2026, Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, out­lined two con­crete pro­pos­als that would pro­vide more op­tions for lo­cal in­vestors who want to de­ploy their TT-dol­lar sav­ings. Those two pro­pos­als were:

For many pro­fes­sion­als across the Caribbean, the hir­ing process can feel con­fus­ing and un­pre­dictable. Can­di­dates up­date their ré­sumés, high­light their ex­pe­ri­ence, and ap­ply for mul­ti­ple op­por­tu­ni­ties, yet many still strug­gle to move for­ward in re­cruit­ment process­es.

Tra­di­tion­al­ly, scrubs are worn by peo­ple in the med­ical pro­fes­sion. But Dr Ayan­na Miller, founder and CEO of Pro­fash­ion­al Scrubs, has tak­en her vi­sion for her prod­ucts be­yond the hos­pi­tal wards and the emer­gency rooms. Her styl­ish scrubs, footwear and ac­ces­sories have found their way in­to beau­ty sa­lons and oth­er spaces where its wear­ers need com­fort and dura­bil­i­ty be­cause they work long hours and move around a lot.