Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd (Plipde­co) yes­ter­day an­nounced the res­ig­na­tion of its di­rec­tor, Ayan­na Miguel, as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to un­der­go sig­nif­i­cant changes.

Per­for­mance or on-de­mand bonds have been de­scribed as the lifeblood of com­merce and are a com­mon fea­ture in Re­quests for Pro­pos­als (RF­Ps) is­sued by lo­cal pub­lic bod­ies and state agen­cies. A per­for­mance bond is a sure­ty giv­en by a third par­ty (usu­al­ly a bank or in­sur­ance com­pa­ny) to guar­an­tee the com­ple­tion of an­oth­er’s con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions. The amount payable un­der a per­for­mance bond can some­times range from 2 to10 per cent of the val­ue of the un­der­ly­ing con­tract.

A “proud Tri­ni to the bone” vice-pres­i­dent and gen­er­al man­ag­er of Flow Trinidad, em­bod­ies re­silience, sheer de­ter­mi­na­tion and proud suc­cess, hav­ing com­ing through the ranks in the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in­dus­try and ris­ing to hold one of the top po­si­tions.

The road is not al­ways smooth for women en­tre­pre­neurs, but sur­round your­self with peo­ple who be­lieve in you, nev­er let any­one tell you that you can’t do it and God will di­rect your path to suc­cess.

The 29-year-old came to be known in the sport of gym­nas­tics, hard­ly the most pop­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ty with­in T&T shores. De­spite this, she made her way to the world stage at the World Artis­tic Gym­nas­tics Cham­pi­onships in 2011 and 2015 re­spec­tive­ly. The lat­ter ap­pear­ance put her in prime po­si­tion to make his­to­ry as the first T&T gym­nast at the Olympic games.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon, met with a of­fi­cials from both Chi­na and Ghana on Fri­day.

The Cen­tral Bank has reg­is­tered Massy Re­mit­tance Ser­vices (Trinidad) Ltd (MRSTL) on March 3, 2025 to car­ry on the busi­ness of an e-mon­ey is­suer in this coun­try us­ing its dig­i­tal wal­let app; WID­IT.

Wayne Dass was named yes­ter­day as the gen­er­al man­ag­er of the Na­tion­al In­vest­ment Fund Hold­ing Com­pa­ny (NIF), the first time the sev­en-year old com­pa­ny has em­ployed a se­nior of­fi­cer.

Come April 7, bmo­bile's post-paid cus­tomers who are on its lega­cy plan, are be­ing re­quest­ed to pay 14.61 per cent more to be up­grad­ed to its Ex­treme Plus plan, which the mo­bile ser­vice provider says of­fers more val­ue.

Claire Gomez-Miller, char­tered cer­ti­fied ac­coun­tant and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of British Amer­i­can Com­pa­ny Trinidad (BAT), is urg­ing cor­po­rate lead­ers who move from the pri­vate to pub­lic sec­tor to trans­fer best prac­tices from the busi­ness world.

Ja­maican con­glom­er­ate, GraceKennedy Lim­it­ed (GK) yes­ter­day re­port­ed prof­it af­ter tax to­talling J$8.9 bil­lion (US$57 mil­lion), for its fi­nan­cial year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024.

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald J. Trump’s re­newed ‘Amer­i­ca First’ trade pol­i­cy is a must-watch de­vel­op­ment for the Caribbean giv­en the US’s role as the re­gion’s pri­ma­ry trad­ing part­ner – both as an ex­port mar­ket and an im­port source.