The work­force in the en­er­gy sec­tor re­mains male dom­i­nat­ed, es­pe­cial­ly in front­line po­si­tions in ac­tiv­i­ties like op­er­a­tions, main­te­nance, drilling and con­struc­tion.

Ad­ven­sus, a Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic con­tact cen­tre and busi­ness process out­sourc­ing (BPO) ser­vices com­pa­ny, yes­ter­day an­nounced the launch of its US$6 mil­lion de­liv­ery fa­cil­i­ty in Long­denville, Ch­agua­nas.  

The JMMB Group Lim­it­ed has re­port­ed a net prof­it of J$1.83 bil­lion ($78.5 mil­lion or US$11.5 mil­lion) for the nine-month pe­ri­od end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024.

Two lead­ing econ­o­mists agree with the 2024 re­port from the T&T Ex­trac­tive In­dus­tries Trans­paren­cy Ini­tia­tive (TTEITI) that it is time to take a deep look at the Her­itage and Sta­bil­i­sa­tion Fund (HSF) to make it more vi­able.

De­spite three years of de­cline in the lo­cal stock mar­ket, there is sup­port for the state­ment made by CEO of the T&T Stock Ex­change Eva Mitchell that the time to in­vest in the mar­ket is now.

Aretha Franklin may have been the Queen of Soul, but she cer­tain­ly was not the Queen of record-keep­ing. Her fail­ure to en­sure that her last will and tes­ta­ment was prop­er­ly record­ed and safe­ly stored, re­sult­ed in a five-year long dis­pute over her vast es­tate among her chil­dren af­ter her death in 2018 .

Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) and dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy can sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hance op­er­a­tions in ma­ture oil and gas basins, where re­sources are of­ten hard­er to find due to de­ple­tion and in­creased op­er­a­tional and in­fra­struc­tur­al chal­lenges.

For­mer act­ing pres­i­dent of the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd (Plipde­co) Dr Av­erne Pan­tin, has re­signed ef­fec­tive Feb­ru­ary 7, 2025, af­ter be­ing sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave last month.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) has a new chair­man, fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Sean Roach on Jan­u­ary 15.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says there are dis­cus­sions tak­ing place to raise lim­its on cred­it union death pay­outs, but notes the de­ci­sion has to come from Cab­i­net.

CIBC Caribbean has an­nounced the suc­cess­ful trans­fer of its as­sets in St Maarten to Or­co Bank NV on Feb­ru­ary 7, 2025.

Agos­ti­ni’s Ltd has of­fi­cial­ly changed its name to Agos­ti­ni Ltd fol­low­ing a meet­ing of its share­hold­ers.