Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ap­proach to hous­ing, in­fra­struc­ture and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment needs a ma­jor re­think, with greater in­te­gra­tion be­tween Gov­ern­ment agen­cies and a stronger link be­tween where peo­ple live, where they work and where in­vest­ment is di­rect­ed.

Pre­mier Restau­rants CEO Vish­nu Ma­haraj has pushed back against so­cial me­dia crit­i­cism re­gard­ing menu prices at the new­ly opened Ap­ple­bee’s and IHOP at Grand Bazaar, as­sur­ing cus­tomers that the US din­ing chains of­fer af­ford­able op­tions for lo­cal din­ers.

More than two years ago, a group of six young pro­fes­sion­als recog­nised a ma­jor flaw with re­gard to lo­cal play parks.

For­mer Plan­ning Min­is­ter Dr Bhoe Tewarie is hope­ful that T&T’s re­la­tion­ship with Venezuela will en­ter a “new era” char­ac­terised by greater co­op­er­a­tion and align­ment with the Unit­ed States.

A call is be­ing made for in­vestors, com­pa­nies and fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions to take ad­van­tage of a new fi­nanc­ing av­enue that can chan­nel bil­lions of dol­lars in­to projects rang­ing from re­new­able en­er­gy and cli­mate-re­silient in­fra­struc­ture to hous­ing, health­care and ed­u­ca­tion.

The ANSA McAL group has an­nounced that Pad­ma De Li­ma has been ap­point­ed as man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Guyana Brew­eries Inc.

Fam­i­ly busi­ness­es have var­i­ous types of con­flicts, with dif­fer­ent root caus­es. While con­flict can­not be avoid­ed, the fo­cus should be on cre­at­ing an en­vi­ron­ment where dif­fer­ences can be re­solved for the long-term ben­e­fit of the en­ter­prise and its abil­i­ty to con­tin­ue the lega­cy. How can fam­i­lies avoid this com­mon trap many fam­i­ly busi­ness­es face?

Hous­ing must be at the cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ur­ban trans­for­ma­tion, with greater em­pha­sis on re­silient com­mu­ni­ties, af­ford­able homes, smart cities and in­fra­struc­ture that can with­stand cli­mate shocks.

The So­lis group yes­ter­day de­clared af­ter-tax prof­it of $1.57 mil­lion for the three months end­ed Ju­ly 31, 2026, a 29 per cent in­crease com­pared to the $1.22 mil­lion the print­ing equip­ment ven­dor de­clared for the same pe­ri­od last year.

Hilton Trinidad work­ers are still seek­ing clar­i­ty on sev­er­ance pay­ments fol­low­ing a town hall meet­ing with man­age­ment yes­ter­day.

Be­hind the head­line promise of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) new ba­by grant ini­tia­tive lies a sober­ing eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty.

The 2026 cam­paign of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) in the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has been dis­ap­point­ing.