Am­cham T&T pres­i­dent Stu­art Fran­co says the or­gan­i­sa­tion will con­tin­ue to en­cour­age its mem­ber­ship, the wider pri­vate sec­tor, and the pub­lic sec­tor to share the lessons learnt from the ac­ci­dents and in­ci­dents that take place at their fa­cil­i­ties.

Just days af­ter cel­e­brat­ing its 100th an­niver­sary, AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings Ltd is due to em­bark on a new phase of its de­vel­op­ment when it is list­ed on the Ja­maica Stock Ex­change (JSE) lat­er this month.

The Gov­ern­ment los­es around $30 mil­lion each year in un­col­lect­ed tax­es from il­lic­it cig­a­rettes.

Cor­ner­stone Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd yes­ter­day re­ceived an ini­tial is­suer/cor­po­rate cred­it rat­ings of CariBBB (for­eign cur­ren­cy rat­ing) and CariBBB+ (lo­cal cur­ren­cy rat­ing) on the re­gion­al rat­ing scale from the rat­ing agency, Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices (Cari­cris).

Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd (TCL) yes­ter­day de­clared net in­come of $169.24 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2023, a 1.28 per cent in­crease com­pared with the $167.09 mil­lion the ce­ment-pro­duc­ing com­pa­ny re­port­ed for the same pe­ri­od in 2022.

Ear­li­er this month, Dig­i­cel be­came the lat­est com­pa­ny to be pro­vi­sion­al­ly reg­is­tered for an ini­tial six-month pe­ri­od by the Cen­tral Bank to is­sue e-mon­ey in Trinidad and To­ba­go, through its sub­sidiary My­Cash.

This is the ad­vice from mar­ket­ing con­sul­tant Deb­bie Jol­lie, as she said any com­pa­ny, whether large, medi­um or small, that is not cre­at­ing some kind of dig­i­tal pres­ence will be­come a di­nosaur.

The Radis­son Blu Ho­tel which is strate­gi­cal­ly lo­cat­ed in the heart of down­town Port-of-Spain will not on­ly add to Trinidad’s qual­i­ty ho­tel room­stock but will en­hance the cap­i­tal with its al­lur­ing struc­ture.

At the su­per­mar­ket’s soft open­ing on Thurs­day evening, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of the su­per­mar­ket chain, Suni­ta Per­sad, said the com­pa­ny planned to help the Freeport com­mu­ni­ty much as it had done at its tra­di­tion­al base in South East Trinidad.

The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny (WIT­CO) has record­ed re­duced prof­its com­pared to its last per­for­mance for the same pe­ri­od last year.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) of T&T an­nounced yes­ter­day that it had com­plet­ed ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Swiss com­pa­ny Pro­man for the ex­e­cu­tion of a gas sales con­tract for Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Ltd (MHTL).

Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell yes­ter­day de­fend­ed Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL), fol­low­ing crit­i­cism from the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of the air­line’s treat­ment of To­ba­go Car­ni­val.