Ca­roni dairy farmer Suresh Rami­ah spent the last three years in­vest­ing his life sav­ings in­to his dairy farm, wait­ing for 23 young heifers to ma­ture and dou­ble his milk pro­duc­tion by ear­ly next year.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

A Ba­hamas-based sub­sidiary of CL Fi­nan­cial, seek­ing to re­cov­er over US$122 mil­lion in dam­ages from the es­tate of for­mer CL Fi­nan­cial (CLF) ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Lawrence Duprey over a failed land de­vel­op­ment in Flori­da, has lost its bid for ex­clu­sive ac­cess to le­gal costs that the es­tate was award­ed for a dis­con­tin­ued law­suit against Duprey and oth­er for­mer CLF ex­ec­u­tives over their al­leged roles in the con­glom­er­ate's col­lapse.

Pan-Amer­i­can Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny of T&T Ltd (PAL­ICTT) has ex­pand­ed its agency net­work with the ad­di­tion of the Dale McLeod Agency, a move the com­pa­ny says will strength­en its pres­ence in the lo­cal in­sur­ance mar­ket and sup­port its agent-led growth strat­e­gy.

Work­ers at Nestlé Trinidad and To­ba­go have been ad­vised to pre­pare for every pos­si­ble out­come, as un­cer­tain­ty con­tin­ues over the fu­ture of the com­pa­ny’s dairy and juices busi­ness.

LJ Williams Ltd says it ex­pects im­proved per­for­mance in fis­cal 2027, af­ter a chal­leng­ing year in which group sales and prof­its de­clined, large­ly due to weak­er re­sults at its sub­sidiary, The Home Store.