In a coun­try that has seen fu­el prices in­crease by six times be­tween 2016 and 2022, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) cam­paign promise that those prices would fall ap­pealed to many peo­ple look­ing to save on their ex­pens­es.

The re­al es­tate in­dus­try has been grad­u­al­ly re­cov­er­ing since the pan­dem­ic, while the com­mer­cial sec­tor con­tin­ues to adapt to chang­ing work­place trends.

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Lim­it­ed (RFHL) has an­nounced $1 bil­lion dol­lars in prof­its for the first half of the Fi­nan­cial Year.

Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie yes­ter­day praised the or­gan­is­ers of a pro­cure­ment work­shop for work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly to fa­cil­i­tate the spread of knowl­edge on an im­por­tant de­vel­op­ment in T&T.

Last Mon­day, one of the guests on Guardian Me­dia’s gen­er­al elec­tion night broad­cast, made a pre­dictable but nonethe­less sur­pris­ing at­tempt to fore­shad­ow the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion’s in­abil­i­ty to de­liv­er on the many promis­es it made dur­ing the cam­paign.

The Sub­sea In­te­gra­tion Al­liance (SIA) has been award­ed the en­gi­neer­ing, pro­cure­ment, con­struc­tion, and in­stal­la­tion (EP­CI) con­tract for the BP’s Gin­ger project which is lo­cat­ed off­shore Trinidad and To­ba­go.

As chair­men from ma­jor state boards con­tin­ue to re­sign due to the change in gov­ern­ment on Mon­day, the lat­est is Trinidad Pe­tro­le­um Hold­ings Ltd (TPHL) chair­man Michael Quam­i­na.

Clax­ton Bay-head­quar­tered Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd (TCL) yes­ter­day de­clared af­ter-tax prof­it of $85.90 mil­lion for the three months end­ed March 31, 2025, an in­crease of 9.6 per cent com­pared to the $78.3 mil­lion the ce­ment-pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny earned for the com­pa­ra­ble pe­ri­od in 2024.

Trade unions across the coun­try are ex­pec­tant and ea­ger­ly await­ing a re­turn to the ne­go­ti­at­ing ta­ble with the new­ly elect­ed gov­ern­ment.

Busi­ness groups and one econ­o­mist see the re­open­ing of the Petrotrin re­fin­ery as a step in the right di­rec­tion with a lo­cal en­ti­ty.

The res­ig­na­tions from ma­jor state or­gan­i­sa­tions con­tin­ued yes­ter­day, as Caribbean Air­lines’ chair­man Shameer ‘Ron­nie’ Mo­hammed con­firmed to staff he was step­ping down.

Lead­er­ship spe­cial­ist, Max­ine At­tong be­lieves that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­sound­ing vic­to­ry in Mon­day’s gen­er­al elec­tions will set a lead­er­ship ex­am­ple for women in busi­ness and oth­er spheres in life.