Robert Le Hunte, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties has said that cred­it unions have to adapt to the mod­ern world if they are to sur­vive.

Oil com­pa­nies have con­tributed the most rev­enue dur­ing the 2019 tax amnesty that took place be­tween June 15 and Sep­tem­ber 30.

De­spite the sweet­en­ers an­nounced in the 2019/2020 na­tion­al bud­get, labour lead­ers and econ­o­mists be­lieve many of them are mere­ly po­lit­i­cal of­fer­ings by the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ahead of the lo­cal gov­ern­ment and gen­er­al elec­tions.
At the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OTWU) and Co-op­er­a­tive Cred­it Union League’s (CCULTT)’s an­nu­al Peo­ple’s Sec­tor Post-Bud­get Break­fast Fo­rum yes­ter­day at Para­mount Build­ing, San Fer­nan­do, speak­ers tore down sev­er­al of Gov­ern­ment's ini­tia­tives for eco­nom­ic growth, pover­ty re­duc­tion and gen­der de­vel­op­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has mixed re­ac­tions to the 2019/2020 bud­get.

While the Trade Min­istry has im­ple­ment­ed sev­er­al ini­tia­tives aimed at im­prov­ing this coun­try’s rank­ing, T&T is small and has a more com­plex trad­ing busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment, said Trade min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon.

CEO of the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, Gabriel Faria has called on the Gov­ern­ment to pay bil­lions of dol­lars it owes to the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in the up­com­ing bud­get.

Watch what you say about the de­ci­sion to se­lect Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Ltd (PET­CL) as the pre­ferred bid­der for the sale of Petrotrin’s re­fin­ery.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) flights have re­sumed fol­low­ing the pas­sage of Trop­i­cal Storm Karen.

Pres­i­dent of BHP T&T, Vin­cent Pereira is des­ig­nat­ed to re­place Ronald Har­ford as Chair­man of the Board of Di­rec­tors of Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd and Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd.

Dur­ing its an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing, JMMB Group re­ceived a unan­i­mous vote from the ma­jor­i­ty of share­hold­ers in at­ten­dance, and those vot­ing by proxy to is­sue an ad­di­tion­al 325 Mil­lion JMMB Group Lim­it­ed (JMM­BGL) or­di­nary shares, at a fu­ture date to be de­ter­mined by the com­pa­ny.

In the midst of thou­sands of em­ploy­ees los­ing their jobs in T&T, An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd has added 54 per­ma­nent staff mem­bers to its or­gan­i­Sa­tion.

WASH­ING­TON—As Chi­na and the US near a new round of trade talks, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said yes­ter­day he doesn’t feel he needs to se­cure an agree­ment be­fore next year’s elec­tion.