Whether you agreed with him, whether you thought his poli­cies were wrong, even if you were on dif­fer­ent sides, it was dif­fi­cult to dis­like Franklin (Frankie) Khan.

Trib­utes con­tin­ue to pour in for late En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan this time from the Min­is­ter of Nat­ur­al Re­sources in Guyana Vick­ram Bhar­rat, who on be­half of the gov­ern­ment of Guyana yes­ter­day ex­tend­ed “deep­est con­do­lences” to the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment and the fam­i­ly of Franklin Khan on the pass­ing of the late En­er­gy Min­is­ter.

Movi­etowne will not be closed in spite of the Wednes­day’s an­nounce­ment to sus­pend in house din­ing at cin­e­mas, bars and restau­rant.

The Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit (FIU) is warn­ing of an in­crease in “ro­mance scams” tak­ing place in this coun­try.

It has be­come a part of the mod­ern lex­i­con to re­fer to this cur­rent pe­ri­od as the fourth in­dus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion.

The Cen­tral Fi­nance Fa­cil­i­ty (CFF) is co­or­di­nat­ing the ef­forts of lo­cal cred­it unions to pro­vide re­sources to the Cred­it Union fra­ter­ni­ty in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

The World Bank yes­ter­day an­nounced that it dis­bursed US$20 mil­lion to sup­port the Gov­ern­ment of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines’ re­sponse to the cri­sis posed by the La Soufrière vol­cano erup­tion.

Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration yes­ter­day an­nounced the com­ple­tion of flow­back test­ing of the Cas­cadu­ra Deep-1 well, con­firm­ing a liq­uids rich nat­ur­al gas dis­cov­ery.

Michelle Fran­cis-Pan­tor, Deputy In­spec­tor of Fi­nan­cial In­sti­tu­tions at Cen­tral Bank has said while lo­cal fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions have been look­ing out­side T&T to merge with or ac­quire oth­er com­pa­nies re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions how­ev­er, have been look­ing at T&T as a lu­cra­tive mar­ket.

On April 1 Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Ltd an­nounced that it had tak­en a de­ci­sion to im­me­di­ate­ly shut down its M4 and M5000 methanol plants in Point Lisas, with the lat­ter be­ing the largest methanol plant in the coun­try and the world.

This is how ANSA Bank’s man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Robert Le Hunte has de­scribed the newest en­trant to this coun­try’s fi­nan­cial sec­tor.

Caribbean Air­lines Car­go yes­ter­day car­ried COVID-19 vac­cines from Mi­a­mi to Bar­ba­dos and Do­mini­ca.