There has been a great deal of com­men­tary about Moody’s with­draw­al of its rat­ing from the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go. That com­men­tary and con­tro­ver­sy was in­evitable. NGC is not an or­di­nary com­pa­ny. It sits at the cen­tre of the coun­try’s gas econ­o­my, the petro­chem­i­cal es­tate, the LNG chain and, by ex­ten­sion, the fis­cal for­tunes of the coun­try. When a rat­ing agency with­draws from such an in­sti­tu­tion, the mat­ter can­not be treat­ed as a rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tive oc­cur­rence.

Many small busi­ness­es need bet­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion, and large re­tail­ers of­fer many ad­van­tages over hir­ing an ex­pen­sive whole­saler. While SMEs can sell on­line, some items are ide­al­ly suit­ed to su­per­mar­kets, phar­ma­cies, hard­ware stores and oth­er brick-and-mor­tar re­tail­ers. It is more ef­fi­cient to ship to stores and have your prod­uct in a brand-name shop. How­ev­er, you need a strat­e­gy for suc­cess.

Months af­ter one of the coun­try’s news­pa­pers closed its doors, an­oth­er has in­formed staff that it is re­trench­ing em­ploy­ees.

For just over two weeks, the Caribbean be­came the back­drop for one of the biggest cre­ator-dri­ven in­ter­net events of 2026.

Nathan Dur­gans­ingh was just 17 years old when he found a niche mar­ket with­in his cir­cle of friends; clean­ing their shoes for a small fee. At 24, he is the own­er of a small busi­ness that out­grew its space at his San­ta Cruz home and had to be re­lo­cat­ed to a larg­er space in St Au­gus­tine.

T&T’s eco­nom­ic out­look is show­ing ten­ta­tive signs of sta­bil­i­ty, but an­a­lysts and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty warn that the coun­try re­mains caught be­tween short-term gains from favourable ex­ter­nal con­di­tions and deep-root­ed struc­tur­al weak­ness­es that con­tin­ue to lim­it sus­tain­able growth.

Bar­ba­dos is deep­en­ing dis­cus­sions with Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) over route de­vel­op­ment and re­gion­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty at a time when the ma­jor­i­ty Trinidad and To­ba­go-owned car­ri­er re­mains un­der pres­sure over prof­itabil­i­ty, op­er­a­tional per­for­mance, and its long-de­layed au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments.

Amid mount­ing ques­tions about op­er­a­tions at var­i­ous Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ties, Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Ltd has signed a new nat­ur­al gas sup­ply con­tract with the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Gov­ern­ment has wel­comed the as­sess­ment of the T&T econ­o­my from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF), de­scrib­ing the find­ings as a sign of re­newed in­ter­na­tion­al con­fi­dence in the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic di­rec­tion and a val­i­da­tion of its pol­i­cy agen­da.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) re­port­ed yes­ter­day there has been a slight de­crease in the in­fla­tion rate in April, but there was an in­crease in the price of food and non-al­co­holic bev­er­ages last month.

In the com­pa­ny's unau­dit­ed in­ter­im fi­nan­cial state­ments for the quar­ter end­ed March 31, 2026, the com­pa­ny re­port­ed to­tal com­pre­hen­sive in­come of $10.88 mil­lion, an im­prove­ment over the $9.5 mil­lion record­ed for the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) yes­ter­day pro­ject­ed that the T&T econ­o­my would grow by 0.8 per cent in 2026, and that in­fla­tion is ex­pect­ed to rise tem­porar­i­ly to around 3.1 per cent this year.