Pres­i­dent of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­ber (CR­BC), Vivek Char­ran, is hope­ful that the de­par­ture of Navin Dook­er­an from the Ex­im­bank, is a sig­nal of pos­i­tive change in ad­min­is­tra­tion and pol­i­cy at the in­sti­tu­tion.

Eight months in­to the term of a new ad­min­is­tra­tion and on the cusp of a new cal­en­dar year, T&T’s eco­nom­ic nar­ra­tive is de­fined by three con­verg­ing themes: limp growth, for­eign ex­change con­straints and a wa­ver­ing en­er­gy out­look.

Whether you’re but­ter­ring a baguette or slic­ing in­to a crois­sant, most peo­ple may not give much thought to whether their favourite bread or pas­try has an in­ter­na­tion­al seal of ap­proval.

From 2026, strate­gies to em­bold­en many of T&T’s top in­dus­tries through the use of Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) will be stud­ied at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus.

Navin Dook­er­an, CEO of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ex­im­Bank), was yes­ter­day ter­mi­nat­ed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, Guardian Me­dia has learned. No of­fi­cial rea­son for his sud­den de­par­ture was pro­vid­ed.

Flow Trinidad has no­ti­fied its cus­tomers that it will be up­dat­ing its ca­ble tele­vi­sion line­up in light of re­cent­ly is­sued guide­lines by Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (TATT).

ANSA McAL, and one of its sub­sidiaries, have emerged vic­to­ri­ous in a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar le­gal bat­tle with the Ger­man ship­ping gi­ant Ha­pag-Lloyd AG over a ship­ment of chem­i­cals which spilled af­ter leav­ing T&T.

Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for the Con­struc­tion In­dus­try (JCC) pres­i­dent Fazir Khan has cau­tioned against fram­ing the con­struc­tion sec­tor’s cur­rent slow­down as a melt­down trig­gered by any sin­gle com­pa­ny, in­sist­ing the pres­sures now sur­fac­ing are the re­sult of long-stand­ing struc­tur­al prob­lems for which in­dus­try lead­ers should have an­tic­i­pat­ed and planned.

Di­ver­si­fied, pub­licly list­ed Agos­ti­ni said yes­ter­day that the com­pa­ny does not dom­i­nate the pro­cure­ment of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals for the pub­lic sec­tor or the lo­cal phar­ma­cy sec­tor.

Well com­ple­tion is the crit­i­cal fi­nal phase of oil and gas op­er­a­tions that pre­pares a new­ly drilled well for ser­vice. It is es­sen­tial for eco­nom­ic vi­a­bil­i­ty, as it en­sures the safe and ef­fi­cient con­trol and flow of hy­dro­car­bons from the reser­voir to the sur­face.

On No­vem­ber 30 2022, a sim­ple so­cial me­dia post in­vit­ed peo­ple to in­ter­act with an AI chat­bot. It marked the day that Ope­nAI re­leased Chat­G­PT to the pub­lic. In five days, the chat­bot gained one mil­lion users and crossed 100 mil­lion with­in two months, mak­ing it the fastest adopt­ed con­sumer ap­pli­ca­tion in his­to­ry.

Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa has caused wide­spread dev­as­ta­tion across the Caribbean, with Ja­maica, Haiti and Cu­ba par­tic­u­lar­ly af­fect­ed.