Lever­ag­ing the in­no­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy of its par­ent com­pa­ny CE­MEX, Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed is now giv­ing cus­tomers the op­por­tu­ni­ty to have re­al time ac­cess to view­ing their de­liv­ery sta­tus. This can now be done from their cell­phones or per­son­al de­vices/com­put­ers us­ing a sim­ple web­site. This ser­vice is be­ing pro­vid­ed as part of the com­pa­ny’s en­hanced val­ue of­fer to cus­tomers es­pe­cial­ly with­in the cur­rent COVID changes.

The Massy Group is set to as­sist en­tre­pre­neur­ial growth through­out the Caribbean by pro­vid­ing over $6.5 mil­lion in fund­ing the new­ly formed So­cial En­ter­prise, NUDGE .

Berg­er Paints Ja­maica, a sub­sidiary of the ANSA McAL Group, do­nat­ed the tablets to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion in Ja­maica from pro­ceeds do­nat­ed to the ANSA McAL Foun­da­tion from the Group’s One Caribbean, One Fu­ture One Yard vir­tu­al ben­e­fit con­cert.

Na­tion­al Flour Mills Lim­it­ed (NFM) has ad­vised the gen­er­al pub­lic that the an­i­mal feed mar­ket is cur­rent­ly fac­ing short­ages of some feed types due to a num­ber of fac­tors in both the in­ter­na­tion­al and lo­cal op­er­at­ing en­vi­ron­ments.

This year has been a chal­leng­ing one for all economies and, with the ex­cep­tion of the tech com­pa­nies, most oth­er sec­tors have strug­gled un­der the weight of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean re­gion ex­pe­ri­enced a con­trac­tion of mi­nus 7.7 per cent in 2020 but will have a pos­i­tive growth rate of 3.7 per cent in 2021, due main­ly to a sta­tis­ti­cal re­bound that will nonethe­less be in­suf­fi­cient to re­cov­er the eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty lev­els seen in 2019, pri­or to the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic .

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says Gov­ern­ment does not want busi­ness­es to shut down and urged all en­ti­ties to fol­low all nec­es­sary COVID-19 safe­ty guide­lines and pro­to­cols.

It has been two years and 17 days since the gov­ern­ment shut down Petrotrin. The de­ci­sion to close the com­pa­ny was of­ten thought im­pos­si­ble to take, but to the cred­it of the then board led by Wil­fred Es­pinet and sup­port­ed by the Row­ley ad­min­is­tra­tion the dif­fi­cult and coura­geous de­ci­sion to stop the bleed­ing by clos­ing the loss mak­ing en­ter­prise and was made.

En­er­gy min­is­ter Franklin Khan re­vealed that there was a dra­mat­ic drop in the prof­it mar­gins at the State-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny.

State-owned First Cit­i­zens record­ed a prof­it af­ter tax of $607 mil­lion for the year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2020.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's largest nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­er bpTT has con­firmed as many as 149 peo­ple were ei­ther sev­ered from the or­gan­i­sa­tion or took vol­un­tary sep­a­ra­tion pack­ages be­tween Sep­tem­ber and No­vem­ber as the com­pa­ny com­plet­ed its re­struc­tur­ing.

This was the ad­vice from Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon to the women work­ing at the su­per­mar­kets and man­u­fac­tur­ing plants around this coun­try.