Trinidad and To­ba­go man­u­fac­tur­ers and ser­vice providers stand to ben­e­fit from NH In­ter­na­tion­al Caribbean Ltd’s EC$666 mil­lion (US$243 mil­lion) con­tract to re­de­vel­op St Lu­cia’s Hewanor­ra In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, with op­por­tu­ni­ties span­ning con­struc­tion ma­te­ri­als, elec­tri­cal prod­ucts, plumb­ing, air con­di­tion­ing and spe­cial­ist sub­con­tract­ing.

an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt29Busi­ness­es must treat cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty as a board­room risk rather than an IT de­part­ment re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, as fail­ures in­volv­ing crit­i­cal sup­pli­ers, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and es­sen­tial in­fra­struc­ture can dis­rupt op­er­a­tions, dam­age rep­u­ta­tions and ex­pose com­pa­nies to fi­nan­cial and reg­u­la­to­ry con­se­quences.

At 25, Jen­ni­ka Joe­field is the Chief Op­er­a­tions Of­fi­cer of Joe­field En­ter­prise Ltd, a small busi­ness that was gen­er­a­tions in the mak­ing.

US im­ports of crude oil and pe­tro­le­um prod­ucts from Trinidad and To­ba­go rose to an av­er­age 52,500 bar­rels per day (b/d) in the sec­ond quar­ter of 2026, the high­est quar­ter­ly rate since the third quar­ter of 2021.

Since my re­turn to Guardian Me­dia Ltd in March 2023, my BG View col­umn has de­vot­ed con­sid­er­able at­ten­tion to Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL), the largest com­mer­cial bank­ing group in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com).

For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Mar­i­ano Browne be­lieves Trinidad and To­ba­go has lost op­por­tu­ni­ties to strength­en trade with Venezuela and must now fo­cus on for­mal­is­ing com­mer­cial ac­tiv­i­ty be­tween the two coun­tries.

Trinidad and To­ba­go ex­port­ed TT$33.4 mil­lion in goods to Venezuela and im­port­ed TT$34.7 mil­lion in 2025, but the Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing to ex­pand trade as diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries re­sume af­ter a year of fall­out.

Econ­o­mist Dr In­dera Sage­wan has wel­comed a Venezue­lan del­e­ga­tion’s vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go, de­scrib­ing it as an im­por­tant step to­wards re­build­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions and strength­en­ing eco­nom­ic co­op­er­a­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly in en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty.

The en­er­gy cham­bers of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela have signed a Let­ter of In­tent to strength­en co­op­er­a­tion and pro­mote clos­er in­te­gra­tion be­tween the two coun­tries’ hy­dro­car­bon sec­tors.

Whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC) has re­ject­ed claims that its sub­sidiary, NGC Green Com­pa­ny, owes each com­pressed nat­ur­al gas (CNG) op­er­a­tors or deal­ers more than $450,000 in out­stand­ing elec­tric­i­ty re­im­burse­ments, de­scrib­ing a no­tice post­ed at a San Fer­nan­do ser­vice sta­tion as false and mis­lead­ing.

An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd yes­ter­day re­port­ed prof­it af­ter tax of $87.97 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2026, which is a 15.36 per cent de­cline com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in 2025 when the com­pa­ny record­ed prof­its of $103.94 mil­lion.

Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence is be­com­ing part of child­hood faster than many par­ents re­alse. Chil­dren and teenagers are us­ing AI chat­bots to an­swer ques­tions, help with home­work, cre­ate pic­tures and sto­ries, ex­plore ideas, prac­tise lan­guages and in­creas­ing­ly, to talk about their feel­ings and per­son­al prob­lems.