The SpaceX Ini­tial Pub­lic Of­fer­ing (IPO) will be priced af­ter the close to­day, Thurs­day June 11, with trad­ing ex­pect­ed to be­gin on Nas­daq un­der the tick­er SPCX on Fri­day June 12. An event of this mag­ni­tude, the largest com­pa­ny val­u­a­tion ever brought to a pub­lic mar­ket, de­serves some col­umn inch­es.

Fol­low­ing the mur­der of a young child in Erin, the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in south Trinidad is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to take stronger ac­tion to halt ris­ing crime or else busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty would con­tin­ue to de­te­ri­o­rate.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has dis­missed Op­po­si­tion crit­i­cism of the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of en­er­gy ne­go­ti­a­tions with Venezuela, in­sist­ing that ac­tive dis­cus­sions re­main on­go­ing and that Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to work close­ly with ma­jor en­er­gy stake­hold­ers to ad­vance cross-bor­der gas projects.

Last Thurs­day, in this space un­der the head­line, “Who will ben­e­fit from the Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion projects?” ques­tions were raised about the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion’s use of a se­lec­tive, com­pet­i­tive pro­cure­ment method to choose con­trac­tors for ma­jor hous­ing projects in Trinidad:

In to­day’s fast-paced and ever-evolv­ing busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment, ad­min­is­tra­tive pro­fes­sion­als are no longer con­fined to tra­di­tion­al roles of sched­ul­ing and cor­re­spon­dence. They are strate­gic part­ners, prob­lem-solvers, and of­ten the steady force that keeps or­gan­i­sa­tions func­tion­ing ef­fi­cient­ly. With in­creas­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, tighter dead­lines, and the ex­pec­ta­tion to adapt quick­ly to change, re­silience has be­come an es­sen­tial skill for the mod­ern ad­min­is­tra­tive pro­fes­sion­al.

A del­e­ga­tion from Brazil's Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture vis­it­ed the head­quar­ters of the Caribbean Agri­cul­tur­al Re­search and De­vel­op­ment In­sti­tute (Car­di) in St. Au­gus­tine to dis­cuss strate­gies aimed at deep­en­ing agri­cul­tur­al in­no­va­tion and re­gion­al food se­cu­ri­ty.

An­nie Phillip is a full-time florist by pro­fes­sion, and an on-the-job trainee at Flavours by Di­a­mond’s Cre­ative Hands; her own small busi­ness that pro­duces pep­per sauces and de­hy­drat­ed spices.

Pres­i­dent of the Sheep and Goat Farm­ers As­so­ci­a­tion, Shi­raz Khan, is con­cerned that the in­crease fines on the pro­duc­tion of vine­gar and co­conut oil is a fur­ther blow to mi­cro en­ter­prise in the agri­cul­ture sec­tor.

Farm and Func­tion Ltd is quick­ly emerg­ing as one of T&T’s most com­pelling agribusi­ness suc­cess sto­ries, fol­low­ing a dra­mat­ic res­cue and turn­around that has trans­formed the com­pa­ny from in­sol­ven­cy to rapid ex­pan­sion in less than a year—while plac­ing it at the cen­tre of a broad­er na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tion on food se­cu­ri­ty, im­port sub­sti­tu­tion and agri­cul­tur­al re­vival.

Ac­cord­ing to a no­tice post­ed to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change on Mon­day, Shah's res­ig­na­tion took ef­fect on June 1, 2026

The Cen­tral Bank’s May 2026 Mon­e­tary Pol­i­cy Re­port sug­gests that the T&T econ­o­my is en­ter­ing a pe­ri­od of mod­er­a­tion as high­er in­ter­est rates, tighter fi­nan­cial con­di­tions and eco­nom­ic un­cer­tain­ty be­gin to in­flu­ence bor­row­ing and spend­ing de­ci­sions.

Sco­tia­bank T&T Ltd has re­port­ed in­come af­ter tax­a­tion of $301 mil­lion for the six months end­ed April 2026, a de­crease of $39 mil­lion or 11 per cent com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in 2025.