The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty has grant­ed a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) for a Mar­riott-brand­ed ho­tel and re­sort at Rocky Point, Mt Irvine, To­ba­go, mark­ing a key step for a project aimed at ex­pand­ing the is­land’s tourism ca­pac­i­ty.

Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai took the Bank’s se­nior lead­er­ship to the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) last Fri­day, sharp­en­ing fo­cus on To­ba­go-spe­cif­ic pol­i­cy and clos­ing long-stand­ing da­ta gaps that have con­strained plan­ning.

New­ly in­stalled pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, Karen Yip Chuck, has said while cus­tomer con­cerns about the in­crease in the bank’s fees are valid, there has been a “com­plex and cost­ly en­vi­ron­ment” cre­at­ed by cyb­ser­cu­ri­ty con­cerns and reg­u­la­tions re­quired for an­ti-mon­ey laun­der­ing frame­works.

Just one day be­fore the Re­pub­lic Bank was set to in­tro­duce in­creased bank­ing fees for cus­tomers Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Lim­it­ed (RFHL), an­nounced prof­its at­trib­ut­able to its eq­ui­ty hold­ers of $1.07 bil­lion for the first half of the 2026 fi­nan­cial year.

Econ­o­mist Ronald Ramkissoon has said this coun­try’s reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies should raise ques­tions about whether re­cent in­creas­es in bank­ing fees are jus­ti­fied.

There are kinder­gartens clos­ing in Uruguay and Chile. Busi­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go are pay­ing more for pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty. A pirogue is cross­ing the Gulf of Paria from Venezuela with ques­tion­able car­go. A pen­sion­er in Trinidad is anx­ious about his NIS ben­e­fits.

As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment cel­e­brat­ed its one-year an­niver­sary on Tues­day, busi­ness lead­ers in south Trinidad re­main op­ti­mistic about the per­for­mance of the Gov­ern­ment.

BP and the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MoU) for the ex­plo­ration of nat­ur­al gas in the Lo­ran off­shore area, in­ter­na­tion­al news agen­cies re­port­ed yes­ter­day.

Of­ten over­looked as a sup­port func­tion, fa­cil­i­ties man­age­ment qui­et­ly dri­ves pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, re­silience and fi­nan­cial ef­fi­cien­cy across or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Be­low-av­er­age labour pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, in­creas­ing debt ra­tios fol­low­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and lim­it­ed for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment have se­vere­ly im­pact­ed growth in the Caribbean.

At the close of trad­ing on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change on Tues­day, the TTNGL share price was $8.52, in­di­cat­ing that the val­ue of the pub­licly list­ed, ma­jor­i­ty state-owned/con­trolled in­vest­ment hold­ing com­pa­ny had more than tripled from its price of $2.64 at the start of 2026.

The Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion (FTC) has opened the pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion phase for the pro­posed merg­er be­tween Agos­ti­ni Ltd and Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd, mark­ing the first for­mal step in a long-de­layed com­pe­ti­tion re­view that is now back on track af­ter months of reg­u­la­to­ry lim­bo.