bp Trinidad and To­ba­go (bpTT) has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its Trinidad Off­shore Pipeline Re­place­ment (TOPR) project and safe­ly in­te­grat­ed the new in­fra­struc­ture in­to its op­er­a­tions.

Econ­o­mist Dr Ronald Ramkissoon says while it is “nor­mal” that the coun­try ex­pe­ri­ences for­eign ex­change short­ages from time to time, it al­so re­flects that the de­mand for for­eign ex­change con­tin­ues to out­weigh the sup­ply of it.

En­tre­pre­neur­ship is the gate­way growth across mul­ti­ple pro­duc­tive sec­tors of the econ­o­my, ac­cord­ing to ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion, Nigel Ed­wards.

An in­junc­tion grant­ed by the In­dus­tri­al Court to Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) to or­der pi­lots to work af­ter a sick­out from Au­gust 18-20, has been ex­tend­ed to No­vem­ber.

For­mer min­is­ter of en­er­gy, Kevin Ram­nar­ine, is wor­ried that Ni­Quan En­er­gy Ltd’s (Ni­Quan) fi­nan­cial and op­er­a­tional is­sues will have a mas­sive trick­le-down im­pact, which will see hun­dreds, on the bread­line.

Wa­ter util­i­ties in the Caribbean will now be able to ac­cess para­met­ric in­sur­ance cov­er­age through CCRIF SPC—for­mer­ly the Caribbean Cat­a­stro­phe Risk In­sur­ance Fa­cil­i­ty—to fi­nan­cial­ly pro­tect them against ex­treme weath­er events such as hur­ri­canes, trop­i­cal storms, and ex­cess rain­fall events.

AS Bry­den & Sons, lo­cal dis­trib­u­tor of the icon­ic cham­pagne house, Veuve Clic­quot, host­ed a cham­pagne tea par­ty last Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 10—at Veronique’s in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has in­tro­duced a num­ber of tax in­cen­tives over the past few years, aimed at stim­u­lat­ing growth or en­cour­ag­ing de­vel­op­ment in cer­tain sec­tors and in­dus­tries. With the na­tion­al bud­get due to be an­nounced with­in the next few weeks, it would be use­ful to re­call some of the pre­vi­ous in­cen­tives, as com­pa­nies and busi­ness­es con­sid­er how they can op­ti­mise use of these in­cen­tives, or chart a course to ben­e­fit from any fur­ther in­cen­tives that may be in­tro­duced.

Puns aside, Ja­maica’s tourism num­bers for 2023 have not just been im­pres­sive, it is on course to be record-shat­ter­ing.

Es­tab­lish­ing a co­op­er­a­tive bank, in­tro­duc­ing small busi­ness en­tre­pre­neur­ship in­cu­ba­tors, fos­ter­ing youth em­pow­er­ment and tack­ling crime are some of the rec­om­men­da­tions which are on the wish­list of the Co-op­er­a­tive Cred­it Union League of T&T for the up­com­ing 2024 na­tion­al bud­get.

T&T’s largest bank, Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd (RBL), last night ad­vised its cus­tomers that it was cut­ting in half the max­i­mum US dol­lar spend­ing lim­it per billing cy­cle on their Re­pub­lic Bank cred­it cards.

As tech­nol­o­gy con­tin­ues to evolve, so too have crim­i­nals been chang­ing their tech­niques and there­fore, fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions need to be ever vig­i­lant and en­sure there is prop­er com­pli­ance in place, says Joseph Re­my, pres­i­dent of Co­op­er­a­tive Cred­it Union League.