The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go says the “strong pol­i­cy ac­tions” it took in March to deal with the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic are still work­ing their way through this coun­try’s fi­nan­cial sys­tem.

This moves comes af­ter a de­ci­sion tak­en by the Club's mem­bers at their an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing held in Ju­ly.

The Trinidad & To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) has de­nied claims that the brak­ing sys­tems on their fu­el trucks are faulty.

Strength­en­ing so­cial di­a­logue be­tween em­ploy­ers’ and work­ers’ or­gan­i­sa­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go to build more re­silient labour mar­kets dam­aged by COVID-19 was the key com­mit­ment made dur­ing a bi-par­tite di­a­logue host­ed by the In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­ga­ni­za­tion (ILO) Of­fice for the Caribbean.

Dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion can help Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) re­gion re­cov­er more quick­ly from the COVID‑19 cri­sis, ac­cord­ing to the Latin Amer­i­can Eco­nom­ic Out­look (LEO) 2020: Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion for Build­ing Back Bet­ter.

Act­ing CEO of the The Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change (TTSEC), Lystra Lu­cil­lio has said the se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket has, and con­tin­ues to con­tribute sig­nif­i­cant­ly to the coun­try’s GDP.

A friend of mine who was once a part of gov­ern­ment of T&T told me re­cent­ly that when an ad­min­is­tra­tion wants to do some­thing it can get it done in a mat­ter of weeks, but when it is forced to act and does not want to, it of­ten sets up a com­mit­tee.

A Work­ing Group re­port au­thored by the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) and the Cen­tre for Glob­al De­vel­op­ment (CGD) has re­vealed that the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has giv­en rise to chal­lenges in the fi­nan­cial sys­tems of coun­tries in Latin Amer­i­ca and Caribbean coun­tries.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has re­vealed that af­ter a decade and mul­ti­ple as­sess­ments, that the gov­ern­ment’s bailout of CL Fi­nan­cial and CLI­CO has cost tax­pay­ers $30 bil­lion.

An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Lim­it­ed has an­nounces that its Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Pe­ter Sand­strom has re­signed from the or­gan­i­sa­tion with ef­fect from Sep­tem­ber 30, 2020.

The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) played through the re­cent­ly-con­clud­ed Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) un­beat­en and won the com­pe­ti­tion con­vinc­ing­ly.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change Lim­it­ed (TTSE) has an­nounced the launch of its on­line trad­ing plat­form, TOP (TTSE On­line Plat­form), which al­lows for the buy­ing and sell­ing of se­cu­ri­ties on­line.