Trinidad Tourism Ltd (TTL) has re­vealed that it is cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing po­ten­tial av­enues to syn­er­gise the mar­ket­ing and pro­mo­tion of the coun­try as a des­ti­na­tion with the is­land’s en­ter­tain­ment artistes.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ILO) has re­leased a new tool on safe­ty and health for de­ci­sion mak­ers in the world of work to con­front COVID-19.

Has To­ba­go been al­lowed to spend bil­lions of tax­pay­ers dol­lars with lit­tle or no over­sight and even less ac­count­abil­i­ty to the peo­ple of T&T whose mon­ey it is en­trust­ed every year?

Suc­ces­sive Au­di­tor Gen­er­al re­ports have raised se­ri­ous ques­tions about the way in which pub­lic funds are be­ing ac­count­ed for by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Bas­tion Mar­ket In­tel­li­gence Ltd in Port-of Spain, Roger Mon­tero, be­lieves that if the prob­lems of il­lic­it trade are ad­dressed, then this coun­try can get an im­proved rank­ing in the next Glob­al Il­lic­it Trade En­vi­ron­ment In­dex.

The Chair­man of the To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber, Mar­tin George has re­vealed that wastage in To­ba­go has been oc­cur­ring for years.

The on­go­ing con­fu­sion sur­round­ing the pro­posed spend by the Gov­ern­ment of $50 mil­lion to up­grade ho­tels and guest­hous­es in To­ba­go in or­der to im­prove the is­land’s tourism prod­uct is the lat­est in what has been a his­to­ry of tax­pay­ers los­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in tourism spend un­der the con­trol of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

First Caribbean In­ter­na­tion­al Bank (FCIB) has record­ed a net loss of US $110 mil­lion or $743 mil­lion for the quar­ter end­ed April 30. 

At the Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion’s 2020 An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM), the com­pa­ny’s ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, Nigel Ed­wards said: “Af­ter care­ful analy­sis, we have de­cid­ed to dis­con­tin­ue the op­er­a­tions of the Bu­reau de Change, ef­fec­tive 1st Au­gust 2020.”

Sco­tia­bank has been named the best bank in Trinidad and To­ba­go ac­cord­ing to Glob­al Fi­nance Mag­a­zine.

One in every five ve­hi­cles on the na­tion’s roads is unin­sured, ac­cord­ing to es­ti­mates from the As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T In­sur­ance Com­pa­nies (AT­TIC).

The in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ing agency, S&P, has said that pre-COVID, many Caribbean coun­tries did not have the strength to with­stand pres­sures brought about by the pan­dem­ic’s im­pact and as a con­se­quence were down­grad­ed.