You may have heard of the in­fa­mous Amer­i­can “hot cof­fee” law­suit. A cus­tomer of a fast food chain placed a cof­fee cup be­tween her legs while she tried to re­move the lid. The cup spilled and hot cof­fee ran in­to her lap, burn­ing her skin. She sued and a ju­ry award­ed her al­most US$3 mil­lion in dam­ages. Many have held up this case as an ex­am­ple of friv­o­lous lit­i­ga­tion and com­pen­sa­tion cul­ture run amok. But, does it re­al­ly paint a re­al­is­tic pic­ture of the type of award that a claimant in a per­son­al in­jury claim can ex­pect to re­ceive? What con­sid­er­a­tions fac­tored in­to that US$3 mil­lion award?

RBC Trust (T&T) Ltd is poised to be­come the largest share­hold­er in MPC Caribbean Clean En­er­gy Ltd (MPC­CEL) af­ter mov­ing to con­vert its US$10 mil­lion con­vert­ible promis­so­ry note in­to eq­ui­ty.

One month af­ter the ex­pi­ra­tion of the State of Emer­gency (SOE), T&T’s com­mer­cial heart­land is as­sess­ing the se­cu­ri­ty land­scape with cau­tious at­ten­tion.

Hours af­ter ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) in­formed rice farm­ers of a pro­posed $0.50 price cut per kilo­gramme of Grade 1 rice pad­dy, Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries Ravi Rati­ram in­ter­vened and re­versed the de­ci­sion.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo yes­ter­day ac­cused for­mer min­is­ter of fi­nance, Colm Im­bert, of de­lay­ing the lay­ing of the 11th Ac­tu­ar­i­al Re­view of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Sys­tem for 18 months be­tween Oc­to­ber 19, 2022, and April 19, 2024.

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) has won the award for Best Trans­for­ma­tion Through Tech­nol­o­gy at the 2026 Glob­al Busi­ness Tech Awards.

Dr Thack­wray “Dax” Dri­ver will step down as pres­i­dent and CEO of the En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad & To­ba­go on March 31, 2026, end­ing a 24-year tenure with the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

As Cari­com lead­ers met in St Kitts and Nevis for the 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment, with re­gion­al en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty high on the agen­da, Pro­man and Pow­er32 urged pol­i­cy­mak­ers to con­sid­er Trinidad- pro­duced methanol as a prac­ti­cal so­lu­tion to the re­gion’s pow­er gen­er­a­tion chal­lenges.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) met with up­stream oil and gas op­er­a­tors in what it de­scribed as a stake­hold­er en­gage­ment ses­sion aimed at ad­dress­ing con­cerns sur­round­ing the Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) per­mit­ting process.

Stu­dents at the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness are par­tic­i­pat­ing in a mul­ti-stage, AI-sup­port­ed busi­ness sim­u­la­tion de­signed to en­hance ap­plied de­ci­sion-mak­ing, col­lab­o­ra­tion, and re­flec­tive learn­ing with­in the school’s op­er­a­tions man­age­ment pro­gramme.

The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny Ltd (Wit­co) has reached a sig­nif­i­cant op­er­a­tional bench­mark, of­fi­cial­ly record­ing four con­sec­u­tive years with­out a sin­gle lost time in­jury (LTI).

As the glob­al eco­nom­ic map is be­ing re­drawn, for the first time in gen­er­a­tions the com­pass is point­ing de­ci­sive­ly to­ward New Del­hi, Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon, the first pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go-In­dia Busi­ness Fed­er­a­tion (TTIBF), ob­served, de­scrib­ing In­dia’s evo­lu­tion from a cul­tur­al touch­stone in­to what he called “a US$4.6 tril­lion jug­ger­naut.”