On Tues­day, San­dals Re­sorts In­ter­na­tion­al (SRI) signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing with the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies and Flori­da In­ter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty’s (FIU) Chap­lin School of Hos­pi­tal­i­ty & Tourism Man­age­ment to cre­ate the Gor­don “Butch” Stew­art In­ter­na­tion­al School of Hos­pi­tal­i­ty & Tourism.

Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Co Ltd has record­ed a prof­it of $231 mil­lion for the year end­ed 30 Sep­tem­ber 2020, ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny’s au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial re­sults for the pe­ri­od.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is com­mit­ted to do­ing its part to re­duce glob­al warm­ing by pro­duc­ing green­er, clean­er en­er­gy and com­modi­ties, work­ing to­wards de­car­bon­i­sa­tion, and be­com­ing more en­er­gy ef­fi­cient whilst bal­anc­ing the needs of our oil and gas in­dus­try econ­o­my, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has said.

“While we are pleased to see chil­dren re­turn to schools, we cer­tain­ly hope that with the lev­els of vac­ci­na­tion among stu­dents and teach­ers, the req­ui­site mea­sures and safe­ty pro­to­cols will be im­ple­ment­ed and ad­hered to, so that we will not see in the com­ing weeks a surge in the num­ber of pos­i­tive cas­es and deaths.”

“If earn­ing $130 mil­lion on a $260 mil­lion in­vest­ment in two years is bad then I don’t know what is good.”

The much an­tic­i­pat­ed Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion (TIC) put on by the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­er’s As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has been post­poned un­til the first quar­ter of 2022.

The T&T Bu­reau of Stan­dards (TTBS) is sup­port­ing the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture in its thrust to in­crease and im­prove agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion in­clud­ing lo­cal crop, aqua­cul­ture and hor­ti­cul­ture.

For the fourth year, Guardian Group has spon­sored of the Na­tion­al Sec­ondary School En­tre­pre­neur­ship Com­pe­ti­tion (NSSEC) which was launched on Oc­to­ber 7, 2021 and will run un­til No­vem­ber 29, 2021.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has re­vealed that he has giv­en a ten-year hori­zon for crude oil pro­duc­tion in the midst of the in­creas­ing glob­al pres­sure for the world to move away from the pro­duc­tion of fos­sil fu­els, in par­tic­u­lar oil and coal.

Next year could see state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) hav­ing wind­fall prof­its be­cause it was pre­pared to ne­go­ti­ate hard with the down­stream petro­chem­i­cal com­pa­nies in­sist­ed En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young.

The T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) says it is en­cour­aged that ac­tion is be­ing tak­en against those who con­tribute to il­lic­it trade.

The Caribbean’s Trav­el & Tourism sec­tor is re­cov­er­ing at a faster rate than any oth­er re­gion in the world, ac­cord­ing to new re­search from the World Trav­el & Tourism Coun­cil (WTTC).