The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CBTT) has paint­ed a grim pic­ture of T&T’s econ­o­my in its lat­est Mon­e­tary Pol­i­cy Re­port.

Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration Inc has com­plet­ed drilling the Cas­cadu­ra Deep-1 ex­plo­ration well on the Or­toire ex­plo­ration block, on­shore in T&T, not­ing that it en­coun­tered sig­nif­i­cant hy­dro­car­bon ac­cu­mu­la­tions based on drilling and wire­line log da­ta.

Agos­ti­ni’s Ltd has record­ed 3.7 per cent in growth as its net prof­it moved from $163 mil­lion to $169 mil­lion.

A few weeks ago I asked the ques­tion whether Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar can piv­ot like Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley.

Lo­cal com­pa­ny Print­ree Pow­ered by the Docu­Cen­tre has been award­ed bmo­bile’s Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Award for 2020.

The down­town branch at Ex­cel­lent Stores, Port-of-Spain—its longest-stand­ing branch—will close at the end of De­cem­ber 2020 as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to rev­o­lu­tionise its busi­ness mod­el.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank Ltd (AM­BL) has re­ceived reg­u­la­to­ry ap­proval from the Cen­tral Bank of T&T (CBTT) to pro­ceed with the ac­qui­si­tion of the Bank of Bar­o­da.

The Pres­i­dent and CEO of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) Nigel Bap­tiste has ex­pressed that the im­pact of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic would be felt in the economies in which the group op­er­ates for an­oth­er fi­nan­cial year.

The Pub­lic Sec­tor Civ­il So­ci­ety Group (PSC­SG) has called on the gov­ern­ment to give the coun­try a spe­cif­ic date when Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tions will be laid in Par­lia­ment.

Ja­maica is by far my sec­ond favourite is­land in the Caribbean. More than two decades ago when I first vis­it­ed the coun­try there were four things that stood out for me: its nat­ur­al beau­ty, its cul­ture, how much the peo­ple re­mind­ed me of T&T na­tion­als and how much po­ten­tial the coun­try had to be a pow­er­house eco­nom­i­cal­ly; if on­ly it was pre­pared to take the right de­ci­sions.

T&T is do­ing bet­ter than Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and many oth­er coun­tries in its dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion ini­tia­tives but it needs to do it faster, said Huawei ex­ec­u­tive Luis Guil­lot.

Mout­tet re­placed John De Sil­va in the post ef­fec­tive last Fri­day, ac­cord­ing to a no­tice of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change.