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.

The T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion and busi­ness groups are ea­ger to work with new­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment, and Tourism Satyaka­ma “Ka­ma” Ma­haraj.

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.

It is well known that nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion in Trinidad & To­ba­go has been on a down­ward trend for over a decade. This ob­vi­ous­ly means that the vol­ume of nat­ur­al gas con­sumed or processed has al­so de­clined. In 2015, the coun­try utilised nat­ur­al gas at a rate of just over 3.5 bcf/d but in 2024 this re­duced to just 2.4bcf/d.

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.

The so­cio-eco­nom­ic cli­mate over the past few years has been a tricky one to nav­i­gate for lo­cal small busi­ness­es.

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.”

CEO of the Caribbean Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance In­sti­tute (CC­GI), Kam­la Ram­per­sad de Sil­va be­lieves that there are pros and cons of po­lit­i­cal ap­pointees and boards of state en­ter­pris­es re­sign­ing af­ter gen­er­al elec­tions.

Guardian Hold­ings Lim­it­ed (GHL) has record­ed prof­it at­trib­ut­able to eq­ui­ty share­hold­ers of $770 mil­lion for the three months end­ed March 31, 2025, ex­ceed­ing the pri­or year’s re­sults of $234 mil­lion by $536 mil­lion or 229 per cent.

Over the com­ing weeks Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) will in­tro­duce wire­less in-flight en­ter­tain­ment to its ATR fleet. The air­line’s sole Boe­ing 737-800 NG which cur­rent­ly op­er­ates be­tween Kingston, Ja­maica and Flori­da will al­so re­ceive the up­grade. Con­tent will be de­liv­ered via the Caribbean View in­ter­face and will of­fer movies, TV pro­grammes, mu­sic, games, and a mov­ing map. As with the econ­o­my cab­in of the 737-8 fleet, pas­sen­gers will need to use their own de­vices to ac­cess con­tent. The sys­tem will not of­fer ex­ter­nal in­ter­net ac­cess.

In a de­vel­op­ment that is be­ing care­ful­ly mon­i­tored in Port-of-Spain, Shell is re­port­ed­ly as­sess­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a po­ten­tial ac­qui­si­tion of BP, Bloomberg re­port­ed yes­ter­day, cit­ing peo­ple fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter.