SME en­tre­pre­neurs face nu­mer­ous chal­lenges in build­ing a suc­cess­ful en­ter­prise, and one of them stands out from the crowd. An un­known brand is one ob­sta­cle to scal­ing the busi­ness. How do you, as an en­tre­pre­neur, craft a brand strat­e­gy and break out from your mar­ket­ing Al­ca­traz?

The Green Fund is an of­ten-over­looked as­set in Trinidad and To­ba­go. It has been qui­et­ly ac­cu­mu­lat­ing a sig­nif­i­cant amount of funds and is rarely ever tapped. At present, the fund con­tains over $11 bil­lion, but on­ly around $326 mil­lion has ever been dis­bursed in 16 years. This da­ta was re­cent­ly re­leased with the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port 2024.

Lar­ry Howai is one of the peo­ple in the fi­nan­cial sec­tor who I hold in high re­gard, hav­ing re­port­ed on him since his ap­point­ment as the CEO of the First Cit­i­zens Group in 1997 and dur­ing his ser­vice as min­is­ter of fi­nance and the econ­o­my from Ju­ly 2012 to Sep­tem­ber 2015.

As the glob­al prices of oil fail to surge, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, says a spike in prices was nev­er a cer­tain­ty.

Last week­end, as a re­sult of the Labour Day and Cor­pus Christi hol­i­days, T&T’s work­ers en­joyed an­oth­er four-day hol­i­day week­end for 2025.

In a dis­clo­sure dur­ing T&T’s 2025 Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view last Wednes­day, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie re­vealed a $200 mil­lion “black hole” in le­gal fees with­in his min­istry—a rev­e­la­tion that has ig­nit­ed con­cerns over fis­cal dis­ci­pline, pro­cure­ment prac­tices and the broad­er cul­ture of ac­count­abil­i­ty in pub­lic fi­nance.

Two key meet­ings were held be­tween gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and en­er­gy sec­tor ex­ec­u­tives on Mon­day.

Di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of the na­tion­al econ­o­my, with em­pha­sis on trade and in­vest­ment was among the dis­cus­sions when Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj and oth­er min­istry of­fi­cials met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the High Com­mis­sion for Cana­da and In­dia.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo yes­ter­day pre­sent­ed the in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to new mem­bers of the board of di­rec­tors of Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL).

When last South African au­thor and in­vestor Vusi Them­bek­wayo came to T&T to share his in­sight on busi­ness strat­e­gy, his pre­sen­ta­tion at the Edge Lead­er­ship Se­ries co­in­cid­ed with the bud­get day on Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024.

Scrap­ping the T&T Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA) in sev­en weeks with­out deal­ing with the ma­jor is­sues with­in the pub­lic ser­vice was not the road to go down.

Chair­man of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott), at­tor­ney Shankar Bidaisee is on a mis­sion to en­sure the over­all vi­sion for the en­ti­ty is not on­ly ful­ly achieved but al­so re­dounds to the ben­e­fit of cit­i­zens.