For decades, yachties by­passed Trinidad in favour of neigh­bour­ing is­lands like Grena­da and An­tigua, frus­trat­ed by slow, pa­per-heavy Cus­toms pro­ce­dures.

For­mer chair­man of the (CC­GI) and at­tor­ney-at-law, Ron­nie Bisses­sar, be­lieves that too many state en­ter­pris­es have au­dit back­logs that go back for as many as 15 years.

Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) has em­barked on a ma­jor trans­for­ma­tion un­der the lead­er­ship of its chair Rey­na Kow­lessar, who is steer­ing the na­tion­al car­ri­er through a strate­gic over­haul fo­cused on trans­paren­cy, op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy and stronger re­gion­al part­ner­ships.

T&T’s pub­licly list­ed, di­ver­si­fied group, ANSA McAL, an­nounced yes­ter­day that it had en­tered in­to an agree­ment to sell its ma­jor­i­ty share­hold­ing in Bry­dens Re­tail Inc. and Bry­dens Xpress (Of­fice Sup­plies) Inc. to Green­bow Inc, a Bar­ba­di­an com­pa­ny led by Gra­ham Greenidge and Sean Boland, two long-stand­ing ex­ec­u­tives of the busi­ness.

Share­hold­ers of Unilever Caribbean Ltd will re­ceive a div­i­dend pay­out of $4.56 per share on De­cem­ber 15, com­pris­ing an in­ter­im div­i­dend of $0.38 and a spe­cial div­i­dend of $4.18.

De­spite the in­tro­duc­tion of a visa re­quire­ment for T&T na­tion­als to trav­el to the Unit­ed King­dom, trade be­tween the coun­tries is still strong, with trade cross­ing £1 bil­lion be­tween the coun­tries from Ju­ly 2024 and June 2025.

Con­ve­nience re­tail chain Presto has of­fi­cial­ly closed its Grand Bazaar out­let, a move the com­pa­ny de­scribes as part of a broad­er strat­e­gy to en­hance its cus­tomer ex­pe­ri­ence and strength­en its na­tion­al pres­ence.

Keep­ing it sim­ple may be the cru­cial step to curb­ing con­struc­tion costs when at­tempt­ing to build a home.

The in­ter­na­tion­al mar­itime sec­tor is a vi­tal en­gine for glob­al trade, yet it is re­spon­si­ble for ap­prox­i­mate­ly three per cent of glob­al green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions, par­tic­u­lar­ly CO2. This vol­ume is sig­nif­i­cant, ex­ceed­ing, for ex­am­ple, three times the to­tal an­nu­al emis­sions of Trinidad and To­ba­go. The es­sen­tial move­ment of goods via sea comes with a heavy car­bon foot­print that con­tributes di­rect­ly to cli­mate change.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal con­firmed dis­cus­sions be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien Ltd. re­main ac­tive, as both sides ex­plore the com­pa­ny’s fu­ture op­er­a­tions and po­ten­tial new in­vest­ments in the coun­try.
Speak­ing with Busi­ness Guardian on Tues­day af­ter­noon, Dr Mooni­lal con­firmed that de­spite the on­go­ing sus­pen­sion of Nu­trien’s ni­tro­gen (am­mo­nia and urea) op­er­a­tions, com­mu­ni­ca­tion has not bro­ken down. “We con­tin­ue to have di­a­logue with them on their fu­ture and in­vest­ment pos­si­bil­i­ties in T&T,” he said. “They have not closed the door on T&T, and we have not closed the door on Nu­trien.”
Nu­trien an­nounced a con­trolled shut­down of its Trinidad Ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions on Oc­to­ber 23, cit­ing port ac­cess re­stric­tions im­posed by the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion and a lack of re­li­able and eco­nom­ic nat­ur­al gas sup­ply. The com­pa­ny al­so con­tin­ues to dis­pute claims that it owes sev­er­al mil­lion dol­lars in retroac­tive port fees, a dis­agree­ment that has stalled progress.
While Dr Mooni­lal de­clined to pre­dict whether Nu­trien would re­sume full op­er­a­tions be­fore the end of the year, he said the Gov­ern­ment re­mains com­mit­ted to main­tain­ing open com­mu­ni­ca­tion and ex­plor­ing ar­eas of col­lab­o­ra­tion be­yond en­er­gy. “We con­tin­ue to talk about their strate­gic in­volve­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go, both in the en­er­gy sec­tor and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor,” he ex­plained.
Mooni­lal high­light­ed the on­go­ing dis­cus­sions in­clude po­ten­tial part­ner­ships that could see Nu­trien play a more in­te­grat­ed role in the coun­try’s food pro­duc­tion ef­forts, part of a wider gov­ern­ment strat­e­gy to link the en­er­gy and agri­cul­tur­al sec­tors.
When asked about the com­pa­ny’s pre­vi­ous­ly in­di­cat­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, time­line for re­view­ing its op­er­a­tions, Dr Mooni­lal said he would not spec­u­late on whether the com­pa­ny would ex­tend its stay or scale back. “I can’t pre­dict any move­ment of Nu­trien or any com­pa­ny,” he said, “but we con­tin­ue to talk about their strate­gic in­volve­ment.”
Sources at Nu­trien told the Busi­ness Guardian that the min­is­ter was ex­pect­ed to meet with the Cana­di­an com­pa­ny’s man­age­ment onTues­day, but that the meet­ing was pushed back to to­day (Thurs­day).
The source said it is crit­i­cal that a meet­ing takes place soon.
Two weeks ago, Guardian Me­dia spoke to the min­is­ter, who was asked whether the stick­ing point of retroac­tive port fees had been re­solved. Mooni­lal de­clined to go in­to de­tail. “These are mat­ters that are re­al­ly con­fi­den­tial that we are dis­cussing,” he said.
He con­firmed that the Gov­ern­ment had al­ready made arrange­ments to man­age the im­pact of Nu­trien’s clo­sure, par­tic­u­lar­ly re­gard­ing car­bon diox­ide (CO₂) sup­ply, which had been af­fect­ed by the com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to sus­pend op­er­a­tions last month.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Na­tion­al Flour Mills Ltd (NFM) yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $39.7 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025, a 3.68 per cent in­crease com­pared to its $38.35 mil­lion prof­it for the same pe­ri­od in 2024.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has or­dered an im­me­di­ate re­view of Liq­ue­fied Pe­tro­le­um Gas (cook­ing gas) safe­ty pro­to­cols fol­low­ing a se­ries of ex­plo­sions and fires linked to res­i­den­tial LPG cylin­ders.