The Na­tion­al En­tre­pre­neur­ship De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (Ned­co) con­tin­ues to recog­nise the im­por­tance of mi­cro and small en­ter­prise to this coun­try econ­o­my and, as such, will be adding a suite of new train­ing and busi­ness ad­vi­so­ry prod­ucts fo­cused on ad­di­tion­al niche mar­ket ar­eas, par­tic­u­lar­ly youth en­tre­pre­neurs, fe­male en­tre­pre­neurs and en­tre­pre­neurs liv­ing with dis­abil­i­ties.

Phar­ma­cy and con­ve­nience chain Su­per­Pharm has made a strate­gic en­try in­to the St. Au­gus­tine land­scape, open­ing the doors of its tenth lo­ca­tion yes­ter­day to its new cus­tomers.

Three weeks ago, Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon opened a T&T booth at the sixth Chi­na In­ter­na­tion­al Im­port Ex­po (CI­IE) in Shang­hai in Chi­na.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions prac­ti­tion­er, Dr. Ray­mond Mark Kir­ton, says Venezuela’s acts of ag­gres­sion against Guyana over the years have im­pact­ed the econ­o­my of the Eng­lish-speak­ing, South Amer­i­can coun­try.

Trinidad & To­ba­go’s na­tion­al an­them was orig­i­nal­ly com­posed for the West In­dies Fed­er­a­tion. While the Fed­er­a­tion did not last long, the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (or Cari­com) and the Caribbean Sin­gle Mar­ket & Econ­o­my (or CSME) has fa­cil­i­tat­ed the move­ment of peo­ple and busi­ness­es through­out the is­lands. In re­cent years, as a re­sult of the CSME, many Trin­bag­o­ni­ans have pur­chased or in­vest­ed in busi­ness­es and prop­er­ties in oth­er Cari­com mem­ber states, in­clud­ing Bar­ba­dos. In this ar­ti­cle we will an­swer some fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions that Trin­bag­o­ni­ans may have about pur­chas­ing prop­er­ty in Bar­ba­dos.

Agos­ti­ni’s Lim­it­ed and Term Fi­nance have both ac­quired a 20 per cent stake in oDe­liv­er, a tech­nol­o­gy busi­ness pro­vid­ing lo­gis­tics ser­vices to over 5,000 mer­chants across Trinidad & To­ba­go.

The La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (Labid­co) has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) with the Na­tion­al En­tre­pre­neur­ship De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (NED­CO) to be­come a part­ner in­sti­tu­tion for Ned­co’s busi­ness ac­cel­er­a­tor pro­gramme.

T&T Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­tries (TTC­SI) Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Vashti Guyadeen is con­fi­dent that small and medi­um-sized (SMEs) ser­vices com­pa­nies in both T&T and Be­lize, will ben­e­fit from a new and strate­gic part­ner­ship be­tween the TTC­SI and the Be­lize Coali­tion of Ser­vice Providers (BC­SP).

Ja­maica's NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG) yes­ter­day re­port­ed a 56 per cent re­duc­tion in its net prof­it for the fi­nan­cial year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2023.

Thou­sands of home­own­ers in T&T are fac­ing the prospect of a dis­mal 2024, with a sharp re­duc­tion in their dis­pos­able in­come, as a re­sult of the rein­tro­duc­tion of the tax on prop­er­ty, the pro­posed es­ca­la­tion in the price of elec­tric­i­ty and high­er home in­sur­ance pre­mi­ums.

The De­cem­ber 3 ref­er­en­dum in Venezuela on that coun­try’s long-stand­ing claim for what amounts to two-third of Cari­com mem­ber state, Guyana, is an event of ex­is­ten­tial im­por­tance for T&T and Cari­com.

Christ­mas is a sea­son for spend­ing. Whether on ad­di­tion­al gro­ceries or fan­cy gifts, the Yule­tide hol­i­day is of­ten awash with bustling shop­pers.