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.

AS Bry­den and Sons Hold­ings Ltd has re­port­ed a de­cline in fi­nan­cial per­for­mance for the first quar­ter of 2026, re­flect­ing a chal­leng­ing op­er­at­ing en­vi­ron­ment across sev­er­al of its key Caribbean mar­kets, ac­cord­ing to its unau­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments for the quar­ter end­ed March 31, 2026.

Two Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) aca­d­e­mics are warn­ing that as T&T of­fi­cial­ly en­ters the 2026 rainy sea­son, busi­ness­es across the coun­try are once again be­ing re­mind­ed of a grow­ing eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty that cli­mate dis­rup­tion is no longer an oc­ca­sion­al in­con­ve­nience rather it is be­com­ing a per­ma­nent busi­ness risk.

Ja­maica’s gov­ern­ment is of­fer­ing to help To­ba­go strength­en its wa­ter sports safe­ty reg­u­la­tions fol­low­ing the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point on April 8, 2026 af­ter she was struck by jet ski.

The dis­clo­sure on Fri­day by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) of a strate­gic re­align­ment of cred­it rat­ing agency en­gage­ments has left many an­a­lysts with ques­tions con­cern­ing the fu­ture of the whol­ly state-owned com­pa­ny’s in­ter­na­tion­al busi­ness re­la­tion­ships.

De­spite At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie’s an­nounce­ment in Jan­u­ary that the state would no longer pur­sue cost­ly lit­i­ga­tion re­lat­ed to the col­lapse of CL Fi­nan­cial and its sub­sidiaries, the liq­uida­tor of Cli­co In­vest­ment Bank (CIB) has ini­ti­at­ed an ap­peal over a case seek­ing to hold three for­mer ex­ec­u­tives and board mem­bers ac­count­able for the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion’s col­lapse, al­most two decades ago. 

Pres­tige Hold­ings Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Si­mon Hardy is urg­ing grad­uands of the Grow To Lead De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme to guard against a mind­set which pits its com­pa­ny's de­part­ments against each oth­er.

The Caribbean Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (CHTA) is mount­ing a re­gion­al fight against new com­mis­sion prac­tices pro­posed by Book­ing.com, warn­ing that the pol­i­cy could cost Caribbean ho­tels mil­lions of US dol­lars an­nu­al­ly and in­crease pres­sure on an al­ready high-cost tourism sec­tor.

At­lantic LNG yes­ter­day an­nounced that the com­pa­ny had se­lect­ed a new CEO, Don­nie Brown, who re­places Jean An­dre Ce­lestain, whose ap­point­ment was ef­fec­tive Oc­to­ber 1, 2024.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing with Price­wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers Ad­vi­so­ry Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (PwC Trinidad and To­ba­go) with the aim of strength­en­ing aware­ness of the TTSE’s Small and Medi­um En­ter­prise (SME) Mar­ket.

Visa has in­tro­duced a new iden­ti­ty ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem fol­low­ing first-ever de­ploy­ment of its Tap to Con­firm and Tap to Ac­ti­vate tech­nol­o­gy for is­su­ing banks.

Here in T&T, the case be­fore the ICJ, is seen as a Guyanese sov­er­eign­ty mat­ter and a Cari­com diplo­mat­ic ques­tion. That fram­ing has al­ways been in­com­plete and there is more at stake for T&T than we might re­alise.