Busi­ness­es in Mar­aval, St James com­plain about dis­pos­able in­come, forex and eco­nom­ic un­cer­tain­ty

Econ­o­mists all agree that the Gov­ern­ment must roll out an ef­fec­tive in­dus­tri­al pol­i­cy if it is to cre­ate sus­tain­able jobs and a grow­ing econ­o­my.

The cur­rent sta­tus of the Brechin Cas­tle So­lar Farm project is be­ing used as a cau­tion­ary tale in a re­gion­al re­port that is urg­ing proac­tive pol­i­cy and ac­tion re­gard­ing re­new­able en­er­gy in the Caribbean.

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, we all know that ac­cess to for­eign ex­change has be­come in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult. Whether you need for­eign cur­ren­cy for trav­el, ed­u­ca­tion, on­line shop­ping, soft­ware, busi­ness ex­pens­es or life abroad, ac­cess­ing your own mon­ey can feel like an un­nec­es­sary bat­tle.

The World Bank Group has ap­point­ed Juan Car­los Al­varez as the new coun­try man­ag­er for Trinidad and To­ba­go, uni­fy­ing coun­try-lev­el lead­er­ship across the in­sti­tu­tion to en­hance its de­vel­op­ment im­pact in sup­port of job cre­ation and T&T’s pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor pri­or­i­ties.

We may nev­er have thought about be­com­ing an en­tre­pre­neur. Or you felt that it was for in­cred­i­bly spe­cial peo­ple. They were born that way, you pon­dered. Then one day a spark hap­pened. An op­por­tu­ni­ty came to you, and you thought you could do it. It was a side hus­tle, but you liked not just the few dol­lars, but the thrill of start­ing your own.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion av­er­aged 2,541 MM­scf/d in 2025, a slight im­prove­ment from 2,539 MM­scf/d in 2024, ac­cord­ing to da­ta com­piled from the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ Con­sol­i­dat­ed Month­ly Bul­letins.

Wiz­dom­CRM is putting ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and sim­u­lat­ed stock trad­ing in­to the hands of Caribbean work­ers, stu­dents and po­ten­tial in­vestors as Cari­com moves clos­er to ex­am­in­ing a re­gion­al stock ex­change.

TSTT’s re­volv­ing door at the top has trig­gered alarms for the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU).

Last week, I sug­gest­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go re­vis­it its Nat­ur­al Gas Mas­ter Plan. There were two rea­sons for this. The first is that the doc­u­ment it­self is past the plan­ning hori­zon of 2014-2024 and the sec­ond is that the as­sump­tions made back then no longer re­sem­ble our cur­rent re­al­i­ty.

In the wake of claims of mass un­em­ploy­ment un­der the UNC Gov­ern­ment, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo said sta­tis­tics show that more peo­ple had jobs in the first quar­ter of this year com­pared with the same pe­ri­od un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s chick­en sup­ply chain is com­ing un­der pres­sure from a com­bi­na­tion of heat, dis­rupt­ed in­ter­na­tion­al ship­ping and weak­er sup­plies of im­port­ed hatch­ing eggs, a sit­u­a­tion WGM Group chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer So­raya Mo­hammed says is tem­porar­i­ly af­fect­ing the avail­abil­i­ty of chick­ens na­tion­wide.