About two week­sa­go, Shi­va Bisses­sar, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Pina­ka Con­sult­ing Ltd, de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at 30th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of the es­tab­lish­ment of In­folink Sys­tems Ltd, which was cre­at­ed ini­tial­ly to pro­vide a lo­cal deb­it card switch­ing in­fra­struc­ture.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny bmo­bile part­nered with the en­tre­pre­neur­ship hub for its sec­ond an­nu­al en­tre­pre­neur­ship fo­rum to as­sist en­ti­ties in a num­ber of ways.

The Plan­ning In­sti­tute of Ja­maica (PI­OJ) on Tues­day said that the lo­cal econ­o­my grew by an es­ti­mat­ed 4.6 per cent dur­ing the three month pe­ri­od, Ju­ly to Sep­tem­ber this year, as com­pared to the same pe­ri­od last year.

Prob­a­bly the most dan­ger­ous man­date un­der the West­min­is­ter sys­tem is to have a Prime Min­is­ter is­sue an in­struc­tion to “get it done”. Giv­en that every min­is­ter in Gov­ern­ment owes their po­si­tion to the au­thor­i­ty of the Prime Min­is­ter, “get it done” with­out the prop­er frame­works and gov­er­nance struc­tures in place is a sure way to end up with mis­man­age­ment, waste and cor­rup­tion.

For­mer pres­i­dent of the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) Ra­jiv Diptee is en­cour­ag­ing lo­cal en­tre­pre­neurs to seek for­eign mar­kets, but he is ad­vis­ing them that they must cre­ate world-class prod­ucts to en­able their en­try in­to those mar­kets.

As Gov­ern­ment moves to ap­point a ma­jor­i­ty of the di­rec­tors on the board of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL), which would en­sure con­trol by the State of the re­gion’s largest fi­nan­cial ser­vices com­pa­ny, di­rec­tor Ja­son Mootoo, an at­tor­ney, has re­signed.

The T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) has an­nounced a ma­jor in­vest­ment mile­stone: the ma­tu­ri­ty of the Ca­lyp­so Macro In­dex Fund (CMIF).

As on­go­ing pub­lic sec­tor wage talks re­main cloud­ed in un­cer­tain­ty, gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Michael An­nisette has em­pha­sised that the Gov­ern­ment’s ten per cent salary in­crease of­fer to pub­lic ser­vice em­ploy­ees is mere­ly a “start­ing point” in the bar­gain­ing process—not a fi­nal deal that guar­an­tees im­me­di­ate re­lief for pub­lic ser­vants.

“Vin­cent Pereira has an­nounced his re­tire­ment/res­ig­na­tion from Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings (RFHL). I have known him for decades, and he has said that he is sell­ing all his shares in the bank, and I should do the same. I am go­ing to fol­low his ad­vice; he has nev­er guid­ed me wrong. This is all be­cause of gov­ern­ment in­ter­fer­ence in a very, very suc­cess­ful BANK.

Massy Hold­ings Ltd’s planned sale of its Ja­maican dis­tri­b­u­tion busi­ness to Aca­do Ltd, a sub­sidiary of T&T’s Agos­ti­ni, has been frozen pend­ing the sale of an in­sulin brand to a third par­ty dis­trib­u­tor.

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) is­sued an in­ter­est­ing com­mu­niqué on An­nu­al Pro­cure­ment Plan­ning on 12 No­vem­ber 2025 to pub­lic bod­ies. The com­mu­niqué an­nounces what ap­pears to be a fun­da­men­tal re-in­ter­pre­ta­tion of pro­cure­ment plan­ning oblig­a­tions un­der sec­tion 27(1) of the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act (PPDP­PA). The con­tent, tone, and omis­sions in that com­mu­ni­ca­tion re­quire care­ful scruti­ny, not be­cause plan­ning is a bu­reau­crat­ic ex­er­cise, but be­cause pro­cure­ment plan­ning is one of the most im­por­tant in­ter­nal-con­trol mech­a­nisms in the mod­ern gov­er­nance ar­chi­tec­ture.

In a move to re­shape the fi­nan­cial land­scape of T&T, First­line Se­cu­ri­ties Ltd is launch­ing the na­tion’s first-ever Sharīʿah com­pli­ant pri­vate place­ment, in­de­pen­dent­ly cer­ti­fied by a qual­i­fied Is­lam­ic fi­nan­cial schol­ar.