Fol­low­ing its strate­gic ac­qui­si­tion of a 50 per cent stake in the Bar­ba­di­an dis­tri­b­u­tion pow­er­house Arm­strong Agen­cies at the end of 2025, AS Bry­den and Sons Hold­ings Ltd has so­lid­i­fied its trans­for­ma­tion in­to a re­gion­al ti­tan.

Un­der­scor­ing its com­mit­ment to "In­spir­ing Bet­ter Choic­es for a Bet­ter World," the ANSA McAL Group has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Melanie Richards as head of sus­tain­abil­i­ty and so­cial in­vest­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has point­ed to what she de­scribed as “strong signs of growth” in the en­er­gy sec­tor, cit­ing ex­pect­ed in­creas­es in gas pro­duc­tion from ma­jor up­stream projects over the next two years.

Dr Priya Mara­jh has been se­lect­ed as the in­ter­im chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the En­er­gy Cham­ber of T&T, step­ping in­to the role as the or­gan­i­sa­tion be­gins a lead­er­ship tran­si­tion fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of long-serv­ing pres­i­dent and CEO Dr Thack­wray Dri­ver.

Last week’s com­men­tary in this space, which was head­lined, 'How should re­tirees in­vest their life sav­ings?' start­ed off with a chance en­counter with a re­tired pub­lic ser­vant at the Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, ad­dressed some de­mo­graph­ic is­sues re­lat­ed to the pay­ment of Na­tion­al In­sur­ance pen­sions, and then looked at a com­men­tary writ­ten by Bourse Se­cu­ri­ties, head­lined ‘Is con­ser­v­a­tive in­vest­ing right for you?’and pub­lished in the T&T Guardian on Ju­ly 28, 2025.

In to­day’s glob­al econ­o­my, coun­tries com­pete not on­ly through eco­nom­ic poli­cies and per­for­mance but in­creas­ing­ly through per­cep­tion. In­vestors, tourists, in­ter­na­tion­al stu­dents and glob­al busi­ness­es eval­u­ate des­ti­na­tions based on rep­u­ta­tion, sta­bil­i­ty, com­pet­i­tive­ness and op­por­tu­ni­ty. In that sense, coun­tries now op­er­ate much like brands.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance (MOF), through the In­land Rev­enue Di­vi­sion (IRD), will shift to a ful­ly dig­i­tal sys­tem for fil­ing Amuse­ment Gam­ing Tax re­turns from April 1.

With ex­ports ac­count­ing for more than 75 per cent of to­tal sales and ship­ments reach­ing about 25 coun­tries, KC Con­fec­tionery con­tin­ues to po­si­tion it­self as a steady for­eign ex­change earn­er for T&T, even as do­mes­tic eco­nom­ic con­di­tions fluc­tu­ate.

“As a re­sult of the $1.9 bil­lion with­draw­al, the to­tal fund bal­ance de­clined from $28.09 bil­lion in 2024 to $27.36 bil­lion by June 30, 2025”.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank Ltd (AM­BL) yes­ter­day de­clared af­ter-tax prof­it of $242.19 mil­lion for the year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, a 49.3 per cent in­crease com­pared to 2024.

In the hu­mid, in­dus­tri­al heart­land of 1960’s Trinidad, the air was of­ten thick with the pun­gent, metal­lic tang of burn­ing elec­trodes.

In ex­ec­u­tive spaces and board­rooms, a dif­fer­ent type of leader is emerg­ing. Hail the era of the cre­ative ex­ec­u­tive, where suc­cess­ful lead­ers are the in­di­vid­u­als who har­ness their artis­tic skills and com­bine them with tech­ni­cal com­pe­tence to cre­ate a po­tent lead­er­ship brew.