The last au­dit­ed ac­counts of the Prae­to­ri­an Prop­er­ty Mu­tu­al Fund (PPMF) were as of Sep­tem­ber 30th, 2020. Al­so, the fund’s last prop­er­ty was sold in late 2024.

For the week, some 1,833,464 shares trad­ed on the First Tier Mar­ket, an in­crease of 106.62 per cent on last week’s to­tal of 887,370 shares cross­ing the floor.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go busi­ness del­e­ga­tion re­turned to the glob­al en­er­gy spot­light last week with the launch of its coun­try pavil­ion at the Off­shore Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence (OTC) 2025 in Hous­ton, Texas, which was held May 5to 8. The ini­tia­tive brought to­geth­er lead­ing pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor com­pa­nies un­der one ban­ner to pro­mote ex­port-ready ser­vices and high­light the coun­try’s evolv­ing role in the off­shore en­er­gy val­ue chain.

For­mer jour­nal­ist and In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor, Suni­ty Ma­haraj be­lieves that the changes in the mod­ern econ­o­my, tech­nol­o­gy and cul­tur­al pat­terns have all ren­dered the tra­di­tion­al eight-hour work day ob­so­lete.

T&T’s eco­nom­ic mod­el needs to change to cre­ate a so­ci­ety where hu­man wel­fare is max­imised.

NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG) an­nounced on Thurs­day that its agree­ment to sell 30.20 per cent of its stake in Bermu­da's Clar­ien Group to Cor­ner­stone Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings (Cor­ner­stone), ex­pired with the par­ties not ex­tend­ing the agree­ment.

The Massy Group yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $365 mil­lion for the six-month pe­ri­od end­ed March 31, 2025, a 20 per cent in­crease com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in the pre­vi­ous year.

The T&T man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor can now ben­e­fit from Re­pub­lic Bank’s Fi­nan­cial Sup­port Pro­gramme, to­talling $1 bil­lion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) has wel­comed the ap­point­ment of Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj as Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism.

There are more in­ter­nal rum­blings at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd (Plipde­co), fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment of the ex­ten­sion of leave of two man­agers.

When she was sworn in one week ago, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told the au­di­ence at Pres­i­dent’s House that the cam­paign was over and “you know our mes­sage of love, care and hap­pi­ness.”

The re­peal of prop­er­ty tax and the scrap­ping of the The T&T Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA) has prompt­ed ‪Dr Daren Con­rad se­nior lec­tur­er and head, de­part­ment of eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine‬ to call on the gov­ern­ment to lay out a com­pre­hen­sive plan to the pub­lic on how it in­tends to run T&T’s fi­nances.