On Thurs­day, the Bank put out a le­gal no­tice con­firm­ing the deal was off. The deal was ini­tial­ly an­nounced in March last year.

Nearshoring could add an an­nu­al $78 bil­lion in ex­ports of goods and ser­vices in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean in the near and medi­um term, with op­por­tu­ni­ties for quick wins in the au­to in­dus­try, tex­tiles, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, and re­new­able en­er­gy, among oth­ers, ac­cord­ing to the In­ter­Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB).

High Court Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad says a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of East­ern Cred­it Union’s “prac­tices, poli­cies and modus operan­di” may be need­ed.

Over the last week, the coun­try has been forced to waste much time de­bat­ing the lit­er­al name-call­ing by some of T&T’s lead­ing politi­cians.

With the coun­try des­per­ate­ly short on nat­ur­al gas and with the world pay­ing a pre­mi­um for the com­mod­i­ty, comes news that state-owned T&TEC is mak­ing a bad sit­u­a­tion worse by de­lib­er­ate­ly tak­ing less pow­er from the most ef­fi­cient pro­duc­er and forc­ing the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) to sell an ad­di­tion­al 1.2 bil­lion stan­dard cu­bic feet per month to T&TEC.

When Mario’s Pizze­ria opened its doors in June 1972 it was the first piz­za par­lour in this coun­try.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Stu­art R Young met with US Spe­cial Pres­i­den­tial En­voy for Cli­mate, John Ker­ry (for­mer Sec­re­tary of State, USA) in Los An­ge­les on Wednes­day.

TSTT has de­nied it was re­spon­si­ble for the in­ter­net dip on the e-Ten­der plat­form which caused one of the bids for the re­de­vel­op­ment of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Cen­tral Block to go  un­no­ticed by UDe­COTT when the ten­der­ing process closed last month.

French out­fit Peren­co be­lieves it can sus­tain­ably in­crease oil and gas pro­duc­tion in its 50-year-old Teak Samaan Poui (TSP) as­set off T&T’s East coast, and al­ready has the pro­duc­tion hold­ing at 10,000 bar­rels of oil per day.

The poor re­sponse to the 2022 T&T deep­wa­ter bid round with on­ly four of the 17 blocks re­ceiv­ing bids re­flects that the ex­cite­ment over this coun­try’s deep­wa­ter po­ten­tial has waned, says for­mer En­er­gy Min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine.

Gen­er­ate part­ner­ships in Guyana and Suri­name now. This was the ad­vice of Michael Gow, Sub­sea 7 coun­try man­ag­er for Guyana/Suri­name as he ad­dressed last week’s En­er­gy Con­fer­ence.

Miles Bak­er has been ap­point­ed as Group Chief Strat­e­gy Of­fi­cer (CSO) of the ANSA McAL Group of Com­pa­nies ef­fec­tive June 6, 2022.