Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj says the Gov­ern­ment is tar­get­ing an in­crease in ex­ports from US$2 bil­lion to US$4 bil­lion as part of ef­forts to strength­en the non-en­er­gy sec­tor and dri­ve eco­nom­ic growth.

Trinidad and To­ba­go stands at a crit­i­cal eco­nom­ic cross­roads. Tra­di­tion­al growth dri­vers are un­der in­creas­ing pres­sure, while the struc­ture of glob­al val­ue cre­ation has fun­da­men­tal­ly changed. For decades, much of our eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty was built around ex­trac­tive in­dus­tries and nat­ur­al re­sources such as co­coa, sug­ar, oil and gas. To­day, how­ev­er, the high­est lev­els of val­ue are no longer gen­er­at­ed pri­mar­i­ly through pro­duc­tion it­self, but through re­search and de­vel­op­ment (R&D), in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty (IP), de­sign, down­stream mar­ket con­trol, and tech­no­log­i­cal in­no­va­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Green Fund con­tin­ued to grow in the fi­nan­cial year 2025, with the bal­ance reach­ing TT$12.86 bil­lion as of Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025, ac­cord­ing to the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port on the Pub­lic Ac­counts for 2025.

Man­disa Box­ill has tak­en many chances on her­self and her abil­i­ties. She has act­ed, tu­tored math, bar­tend­ed, done food and drinks re­views, and com­pet­ed as a body­builder. This time around she is putting her mon­ey where her mouth is, and is adding busi­ness own­er to her port­fo­lio.

By my cal­cu­la­tion, the Com­pos­ite In­dex of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) is up by 6.28 per cent for the year to Tues­day (May 26) and the All T&T In­dex in­creased by 5.50 per cent in that pe­ri­od.

Moth­er­hood in Trinidad and To­ba­go has al­ways car­ried deep cul­tur­al mean­ing, but in 2026, the role of the mod­ern Trin­bag­on­ian moth­er has evolved in­to some­thing even more com­plex. She is care­giv­er, fi­nan­cial plan­ner, emo­tion­al an­chor, de­ci­sion-mak­er and of­ten the pri­ma­ry ar­chi­tect of house­hold sur­vival. A re­cent na­tion­al study of 1,000 moth­ers and pri­ma­ry care­givers across T&T, con­duct­ed by Lu­cent Re­search Lim­it­ed in May 2026, paints a vivid pic­ture of women car­ry­ing im­mense re­spon­si­bil­i­ty while re­main­ing deeply hope­ful for the fu­ture of their chil­dren.

In­dia’s grow­ing com­mer­cial ties with T&T come at a time when south-east Asian coun­try is one of the world’s emerg­ing eco­nom­ic pow­ers.

In fact, ac­cord­ing to Judy Joseph Mc Sween, a cer­ti­fied emo­tion­al, con­ver­sa­tion­al, and spir­i­tu­al in­tel­li­gence fa­cil­i­ta­tor, the glob­al sta­tis­tics con­cern­ing the de­cline in EI are alarm­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­PA) has raised con­cerns over the state­ment is­sued by the Min­istry of En­er­gy yes­ter­day on li­cences for the min­er­al sec­tor.

Pres­i­dent of the Tourism In­dus­try As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (TIATT) Lisa Shandilya says this coun­try’s tourism sec­tor must move be­yond plan­ning and act faster if it wants to com­pete in an in­creas­ing­ly dig­i­tal and fast-mov­ing glob­al mar­ket.

Man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Au­tomedics Au­to Ser­vice and Re­pair Cen­tre, Kee­gan Bar­row-Si­mon, has an­nounced plans to en­ter in­to part­ner­ship with MIC In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy to men­tor youths to help them avoid trou­bled lives.

Less than a year af­ter re­tir­ing as group chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of First Cit­i­zens Group, Karen Dar­basie is set to join the board of di­rec­tors of Agos­ti­ni Ltd from June 1.