Shan­nice Crys­tal Brit­to be­lieves that health is wealth. So when she in­tro­duced her prod­uct, North Coast Moss to the mar­ket one year ago, it was with the in­ten­tion of giv­ing her cus­tomers a pre­mi­um, pur­pose-dri­ven seamoss brand that pro­motes a more healthy lifestyle.

It is 7:15 on a week­day morn­ing. Traf­fic crawls along the East­ern Main Road as com­muters inch to­wards an­oth­er work­day. A dri­ver abrupt­ly cuts in­to the next lane with­out sig­nalling. Horns pierce the morn­ing air. A PH taxi stops un­ex­pect­ed­ly to col­lect a pas­sen­ger, bring­ing traf­fic to a stand­still. Two mo­torists ex­change an­gry words through open win­dows. Just me­tres away, plas­tic bot­tles, food con­tain­ers and oth­er dis­card­ed waste clog a road­side drain that will al­most cer­tain­ly over­flow with the next heavy down­pour.

The pub­lic re­buke of Massy Hold­ings by Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley on Mon­day has ig­nit­ed a wider de­bate over su­per­mar­ket pric­ing, mar­ket con­cen­tra­tion and com­pe­ti­tion across the Caribbean, with the Bar­ba­dos Con­sumer Em­pow­er­ment Net­work (BCEN) warn­ing that the is­sue ex­tends well be­yond a sin­gle re­tail­er.

On Feb­ru­ary 19, 2008, then Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Wade Mark raised a mo­tion on the ad­journ­ment deal­ing with the trans­fer or sale of some 450 acres (182.1 hectares) of “prime agri­cul­tur­al land” lo­cat­ed on the Or­ange Grove Es­tate to Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Ltd, a com­pa­ny found­ed and owned by Do­minic Hadeed.

Over the years I have spent lots of time on so­cial me­dia ar­gu­ing that the Video As­sis­tant Ref­er­ee Sys­tem isn’t fit for pur­pose. There is of course the usu­al push­back that the tech­nol­o­gy al­lows for the cor­rect de­ci­sion and every­one should be in favour of hav­ing the cor­rect de­ci­sions in a foot­ball match, es­pe­cial­ly when the stakes are high.

Busi­ness con­di­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy ser­vices sec­tor re­mained mixed dur­ing the sec­ond quar­ter of 2026, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est En­er­gy Ser­vices Sec­tor Sur­vey (ES­SS) con­duct­ed by the En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The pri­vate sec­tors of T&T and Guyana en­tered in­to eco­nom­ic co­op­er­a­tion arrange­ment yes­ter­day with the for­mal sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) to es­tab­lish a Joint Cham­bers of Com­merce Work­ing Mech­a­nism.

The Cen­tral Bank has is­sued a clar­i­fi­ca­tion re­gard­ing the coun­try’s nat­ur­al gas al­lo­ca­tion and its di­rect im­pact on for­eign ex­change re­serves.

Caribbean busi­ness­es are be­ing urged to ac­cept low­er prof­its on es­sen­tial goods as part of a re­gion­al pact aimed at shield­ing fam­i­lies from the ris­ing cost of liv­ing.

The de­ci­sion by ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) to stop serv­ing Blue Wa­ters bot­tled wa­ter on its flights has prompt­ed con­cerns from an­a­lysts and busi­ness lead­ers that the is­sue now ex­tends be­yond a sin­gle com­pa­ny and could af­fect in­vestor con­fi­dence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

ANSA McAL Lim­it­ed has re­leased its Sus­tain­abil­i­ty & ESG Da­ta Dis­clo­sure Re­port 2025 along with its first IFRS S1 Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Dis­clo­sure Stan­dard Com­pli­ance Progress Re­port, mark­ing what the com­pa­ny says is a sig­nif­i­cant step in strength­en­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port­ing across the re­gion.

A call is be­ing made for the Caribbean’s bright­est minds in the sphere of tech­nol­o­gy to come to­geth­er to help the re­gion achieve its true po­ten­tial.