Trinidad and To­ba­go’s net of­fi­cial for­eign re­serves to­talled US$5.580 bil­lion at the end of Feb­ru­ary 2026, a de­crease of US$135 mil­lion or 2.36 per cent from Jan­u­ary 2026, when the re­serves amount­ed to US$5.715 bil­lion, ac­cord­ing to da­ta from the Cen­tral Bank web­site.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The lat­est En­er­gy Ser­vices Sec­tor Sur­vey (ES­SS), con­duct­ed by the En­er­gy Cham­ber, re­veals a de­cline in both the vol­ume and val­ue of busi­ness dur­ing the first quar­ter of 2026. Ac­cord­ing to the find­ings, 60 per cent of re­spon­dents re­port­ed that the val­ue of their busi­ness was low­er than nor­mal, while 56 per cent in­di­cat­ed that their vol­ume of busi­ness fell be­low typ­i­cal lev­els.

“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”.

From fill­ing a gap or pro­vid­ing so­lu­tions to the com­mu­ni­ty to es­tab­lish­ing a coun­try­wide name, Mus­lim busi­ness­es have achieved great suc­cess while pass­ing the reins from one gen­er­a­tion to the next.

When peo­ple in T&T think about mi­gra­tion, the same des­ti­na­tions usu­al­ly dom­i­nate the con­ver­sa­tion: the Unit­ed States, Cana­da, and the Unit­ed King­dom. These routes feel fa­mil­iar, but they have be­come in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to ac­cess. Visa back­logs, tighter im­mi­gra­tion rules, ris­ing liv­ing costs, and long pe­ri­ods of un­cer­tain­ty have made mi­gra­tion feel out of reach for many.

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