On May 14, I wrote an ar­ti­cle ti­tled “Save the petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor.” It was meant to urge the Row­ley ad­min­is­tra­tion to see the great dan­ger the coun­try was in and how our prized pos­ses­sion had been brought to its knees by both the ex­ter­nal en­vi­ron­ment and the do­mes­tic gas sit­u­a­tion.

“Flights will ini­tial­ly op­er­ate be­tween Bar­ba­dos to St Vin­cent and the Grenadines and Grena­da with oth­er des­ti­na­tions to be added once the reg­u­la­to­ry ap­provals are re­ceived,” Caribbean Air­lines stat­ed.

Dig­i­tal cam­paigns are be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly sig­nif­i­cant in the lo­cal elec­toral con­text as po­lit­i­cal par­ties, whether big or small, gar­ner sup­port for the up­com­ing Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion in light of COVID-19 re­stric­tions.

It is elec­tion time again. It is a time of­ten re­ferred to as the sil­ly sea­son when politi­cians make all kinds of claims and promis­es in an ef­fort to con­vince the elec­torate to vote for them.

The chair­man of Cari­com and Prime Min­is­ter of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gon­salves has re­vealed that there will be a meet­ing in the com­ing days to dis­cuss an al­ter­na­tive to liq­ui­dat­ing LI­AT 1974 Ltd.

The elec­tion bell has of­fi­cial­ly rung and on Au­gust 10, the coun­try will make its choic­es for Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment and de­ter­mine which po­lit­i­cal par­ty will gov­ern T&T for the next five years or un­til an­oth­er elec­tion is called.

Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Ltd (Cari­cris) has re­vised it out­look on T&T’s rat­ings from sta­ble to neg­a­tive.

Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos and for­mer chair of Cari­com, Mia Mot­t­ley has re­vealed that six air car­ri­ers have ex­pressed in­ter­est in tak­ing over LI­AT’s trav­el routes, in wake of the car­ri­er’s cur­rent fi­nan­cial chal­lenge.

Trinidad-based Ke­nes­jay Sys­tems Ltd has signed a Let­ter of In­tent (LOI) with the French hy­dro­gen spe­cial­ist HDF En­er­gy to es­tab­lish a part­ner­ship for the de­vel­op­ment of the New­Gen Car­bon-Neu­tral & Green Hy­dro­gen project.

Sco­tia­bank T&T and Sagi­cor Fi­nan­cial Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd have can­celled their dis­tri­b­u­tion deal.

Dig­i­cel Trinidad has filed a court in­junc­tion against a mo­bile com­peti­tor which Guardian Me­dia Ltd un­der­stands is bmo­bile.

This week we wit­nessed two de­ci­sions that demon­strate the pos­si­bil­i­ties and the chal­lenges of unit­ing the Caribbean peo­ple.