Busi­ness­es in T&T that fail to ad­dress work­place di­ver­si­ty could face high­er em­ploy­ee turnover and re­cruit­ment costs and weak­er in­no­va­tion po­ten­tial­ly un­der­min­ing their fi­nan­cial per­for­mance and com­pet­i­tive­ness, ac­cord­ing to Pres­i­dent of the Hu­man Re­source Man­age­ment As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (HRMATT) Cavelle Joseph-St. Omer.

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US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s move to take con­trol of 65 mil­lion bar­rels of Venezue­lan oil could cre­ate an un­ex­pect­ed open­ing for Trinidad and To­ba­go, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the long-stalled Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

A 33-year-old Trinida­di­an na­tion­al and law­ful per­ma­nent Unit­ed States res­i­dent has plead­ed guilty to sex traf­fick­ing and ad­mit­ted to kid­nap­ping six ad­di­tion­al women.

As de­tails emerge re­gard­ing the pro­posed Ibis Steel Plant in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the project’s busi­ness mod­el and its align­ment with the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal as­sets are be­com­ing clear­er. This ar­ti­cle ex­plores the spe­cif­ic risks and po­ten­tial re­wards this ven­ture pos­es for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) has an­nounced a sig­nif­i­cant ex­pan­sion of its sus­tain­able fi­nance com­mit­ments of an ad­di­tion­al US$550 mil­lion un­der the RFHL group cli­mate fi­nance goal and SDG fi­nan­cial in­clu­sion tar­get for SMEs (2026-2030).

By lunchtime in San Fer­nan­do, chick­en is still on the menu. But be­hind the coun­ters of the city’s restau­rants and food out­lets, get­ting enough of it is be­com­ing a more com­pli­cat­ed busi­ness.

TTMA and Amcham T&T are call­ing for re­newed com­mer­cial en­gage­ment with Venezuela to go be­yond en­er­gy, as the they see op­por­tu­ni­ties for lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers, ex­porters, and in­vestors as re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries im­prove.

CIBC Caribbean Bank Ltd de­liv­ered a fi­nan­cial re­bound for the nine months end­ed Ju­ly 31, 2026, dri­ven by ex­pand­ing loan port­fo­lios, dig­i­tal in­no­va­tion, and sharply re­duced cred­it loss pro­vi­sions.

In a move to­ward dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion and fi­nan­cial trans­paren­cy, the T&T Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) has launched its new da­ta hub for fi­nan­cial and mar­ket sta­tis­tics.

Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL) dis­sent­ing share­hold­er, Pe­ter Per­me­ll, yes­ter­day re­ject­ed the of­fer by the Agos­ti­ni Group of $12.15 per share for his shares in the restau­rant man­age­ment com­pa­ny as “not on­ly woe­ful­ly in­ad­e­quate, but it seems to want to add in­sult to in­jury.”

Sco­tia­bank T&T has an­nounced a change in its se­nior fi­nance lead­er­ship, with chief ac­coun­tant and comp­trol­ler Sameer Mo­hammed demit­ting of­fice ef­fec­tive Au­gust 31, 2026, to pur­sue oth­er pro­fes­sion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties out­side the bank.

Of­fi­cial Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) dis­clo­sures from the Min­istry of Labour re­veal that 234 work­ers across T&T lost their jobs due to cor­po­rate re­trench­ment be­tween Jan­u­ary and Ju­ly 2026.