It is not of­ten that one hopes that they are wrong and will be proven so in the pub­lic square. But as I write this ar­ti­cle I hope that I will be shown to be wrong be­cause if that hap­pens the coun­try will be bet­ter for it.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Ex­trac­tive In­dus­tries Trans­paren­cy Ini­tia­tive (TTEITI) has con­grat­u­lat­ed Franklin Khan on his reap­point­ment as Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries (MEEI).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Ex­trac­tive in­dus­tries Trans­paren­cy Ini­tia­tive (TTEITI) has launched a ben­e­fi­cial own­er­ship reg­is­ter for oil, gas and min­ing com­pa­nies which re­port to it.

Af­ter ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a $40.9 mil­lion net loss in the first quar­ter of 2020, Guardian Hold­ings Ltd (GHL) has ex­pe­ri­enced a prof­itable sec­ond quar­ter, record­ing net in­come of $194.5 mil­lion—yet still, the net prof­it for the Group’s Half Year re­sults de­clined by 39.5 per cent (from $253.6 mil­lion to $153.6 mil­lion) when com­pared to the pre­vi­ous year.

Mon­day, Au­gust 24th, 2020, Port of Spain, Trinidad … Ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty to on­line bank­ing plat­forms have be­come in­creas­ing­ly im­por­tant as the cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go, along with the rest of the world, nav­i­gate the chal­lenges that have be­come the “next nor­mal” brought about by the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic. The JMMB Group has been prepar­ing for some time to de­liv­er on process im­prove­ments across the Group’s bank­ing touch­points in an ef­fort to pro­vide its clients with an easy, en­joy­able and em­pow­er­ing on­line bank­ing ex­pe­ri­ence. While the ex­ist­ing on­line bank­ing plat­form has proven to be ef­fi­cient, the new Money­line on­line bank­ing plat­form promis­es to el­e­vate the on­line bank­ing ex­pe­ri­ence with re­minders, trans­fer­sto third par­ty ac­counts oth­er lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, the abil­i­ty to fund your JMMB bro­ker­age ac­count and much more.

A to­tal of 244,171 pas­sen­gers trav­elled be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go on the in­ter-is­land fer­ries be­tween Jan­u­ary and Ju­ly, sta­tis­tics have shown.

Calvin Mau­rice is the new chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al En­tre­pre­neur­ship De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (Ned­co).

Agos­ti­ni’s Ltd has seen an in­crease of 5.4 per cent in rev­enue ($2.4 bil­lion in 2019 to $2.6 bil­lion in 2020) and a 0.5 per cent rise in net prof­it ($122.5 mil­lion in 2019 to $123.1 mil­lion in 2020) for the nine months end­ed June 30. The group’s op­er­at­ing prof­it al­so climbed by 9.9 per cent mov­ing from $179.9 mil­lion to $197.7 mil­lion.

It’s elec­tion sea­son in the Caribbean. Suri­name and Guyana have changed their gov­ern­ments, Trinidad and To­ba­go has stuck with the PNM and on Sep­tem­ber 3rd the peo­ple of Ja­maica will de­cide if they are stick­ing with Labour or if the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Par­ty will be re­turned to pow­er.

The JMMB Group has record­ed J$780 mil­lion (TT$35.1 mil­lion) in net prof­it for the three months end­ed June 30, 2020.

The JMMB Group has record­ed J$780 mil­lion (TT$35.1 mil­lion) in net prof­it for the three months end­ed June 30, 2020.

Sagi­cor Fi­nan­cial Com­pa­ny has re­port­ed a US$36.2 mil­lion (TT$245.26) loss for the six months pe­ri­od end­ed June 30, 2020.