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.

Gaso­line prices in­creased across most Cari­com mar­kets be­tween Ju­ly 2025 and May 2026, al­though the av­er­age rise across the re­gion was small­er than the in­crease in the glob­al av­er­age price.

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

On 8 April 2026, the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) an­nounced its in­ten­tion to award ap­prox­i­mate­ly $3.4 bil­lion in De­sign-Build-Fi­nance (DBF) hous­ing con­tracts across 11 pack­ages. The pub­lic re­sponse was im­me­di­ate. Ques­tions were raised about the ca­pac­i­ty of some in­tend­ed awardees, the ab­sence of es­tab­lished re­gion­al DBF con­trac­tors, and the ar­gu­ment that no pub­lic mon­ey was in­volved be­cause the con­trac­tors were bring­ing their own fi­nanc­ing.

Every pro­fes­sion—en­gi­neer­ing, med­i­cine, law, ac­count­ing, ar­chi­tec­ture—rests on a shared foun­da­tion of com­pe­tence, dili­gence and ethics. This foun­da­tion is ex­pressed through the stan­dard of care, some­times called the du­ty of care.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny Ltd (Wit­co) has re­port­ed a five per cent in­crease in rev­enue for the first quar­ter of 2026, re­flect­ing con­tin­ued com­mer­cial mo­men­tum de­spite per­sis­tent in­dus­try chal­lenges.