More than 500 del­e­gates, sup­pli­ers, and me­dia rep­re­sen­ta­tives are in An­tigua this week as the Caribbean tourism in­dus­try gath­ers for the 44th edi­tion of the Caribbean Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion Mar­ket­place, which opens to­day.

Not every­one can see po­ten­tial in items that no longer serve their ini­tial pur­pose. But wood­turn­er Evan Samuel has a knack for chang­ing what most peo­ple would deem use­less pieces of wood in­to one-of-a-kind dec­o­ra­tive pieces. He is invit­ing in­ter­est­ed young peo­ple to at­tend the free work­shops and class­es he start­ed last year, so they can learn a skill that can put them on the road to en­tre­pre­neur­ship.

En­gi­neers will be in high de­mand for sev­er­al im­por­tant gov­ern­ment projects, Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Prakash Per­sad has said.

T&T’s vis­i­bil­i­ty at the re­cent­ly held Off­shore Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence 2026 has giv­en its en­er­gy sec­tor a need­ed boost as this coun­try’s ca­pa­bil­i­ties in en­er­gy ser­vices and sup­port was placed in fo­cus at the con­fer­ence.

The lo­cal dis­trib­u­tors and mar­ket­ing team for Rude Boy has clar­i­fied that it had noth­ing to do with a con­tro­ver­sial bill­board which was re­cent­ly on dis­play in Kingston, Ja­maica.

Da­ta from the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ Con­sol­i­dat­ed Month­ly Bul­letins and the Cen­tral Bank Da­ta Cen­tre, show pro­duc­tion of LNG from At­lantic LNG ris­ing to 17,594,130 cu­bic me­tres in 2025, up from 16,634,427 cu­bic me­tres in 2024.

An econ­o­mist and a busi­ness leader agree that while they wel­come Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s sup­port for “cap­i­tal­ism” and free en­ter­prise, this must be fol­lowed up by poli­cies that sup­port the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

At the age of 11, most chil­dren will vol­un­teer to do chores or prac­tice their best ver­sion of “ma­m­aguy” to get their par­ents to give them mon­ey to fund their hob­bies.

The Cen­tral Bank has is­sued a for­mal en­dorse­ment of the de­ci­sion by Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd (RBL) to pause its fee in­creas­es.

Cus­tomers of Trin­ba­go Ex­press are rais­ing alarm over miss­ing ship­ments, pro­longed de­lays and a lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, with some car­go still un­ac­count­ed for months and even years af­ter pay­ment and col­lec­tion.

The land­scape of T&T’s bank­ing sec­tor be­tween June 2024 and June 2025 re­veals a strate­gic en­trench­ment of fee-based rev­enue mod­els, as eight of the na­tion’s pri­ma­ry com­mer­cial in­sti­tu­tions—ANSA Bank Lim­it­ed, CIBC Caribbean Bank, Citibank, First Cit­i­zens Bank, JMMB Bank, RBC Roy­al Bank, Re­pub­lic Bank, and Sco­tia­bank—nav­i­gat­ed a pe­ri­od of sig­nif­i­cant op­er­a­tional tran­si­tion.

The Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NEC) paid US$60 mil­lion in div­i­dends to its par­ent com­pa­ny, Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), be­tween Sep­tem­ber 2025 and Jan­u­ary 2026.