The Na­tion­al In­vest­ment Fund Hold­ing Com­pa­ny has re­port­ed a slight de­cline in the val­ue of its port­fo­lio at the end of fis­cal 2024.

KLM Roy­al Dutch Air­lines is rein­tro­duc­ing its sea­son­al flights to Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos, and George­town, Guyana, for the win­ter 2025 sea­son.

En­er­gy ex­pert Dr Kr­ish­na Per­sad and for­mer per­ma­nent sec­re­tary in the En­er­gy Min­istry, hon­orary pro­fes­sor An­drew Jupiter is urg­ing the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties to look at oth­er sources such as Guyana and Suri­name, for gas which are not in po­ten­tial con­flict with Unit­ed States pol­i­cy. 

Gen­er­at­ing new rev­enue streams will be fun­da­men­tal when the new gov­ern­ment steps in­to pow­er on Tues­day, says econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon and de­vel­op­ment econ­o­mist Dr Mar­lene Attzs.

Come Tues­day, one of the im­me­di­ate tasks of the new gov­ern­ment will be eco­nom­ic man­age­ment of the coun­try.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber of T&T is con­tin­u­ing to look at the projects which were se­lect­ed by its judges for pre­sen­ta­tion at the T&T En­er­gy Con­fer­ence 2025, dur­ing the in­no­va­tion and tech­nol­o­gy chal­lenge, and has high­light­ed one sub­mit­ted by an­oth­er of its mem­ber com­pa­nies, TOSL En­gi­neer­ing.

The sov­er­eign cred­it rat­ing of the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment has been reaf­firmed by Caribbean In­for­ma­tion & Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (Cari­CRIS) last month.

The Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try has signed a new par­tial scope trade agree­ment with Chile to strength­en ef­forts to ex­pand trade re­la­tions and eco­nom­ic co­op­er­a­tion.

Massy Hold­ings Lim­it­ed has an­nounced its in­ten­tion to is­sue a fixed-rate bond and se­cure a medi­um-term loan, each val­ued at up to TT$300 mil­lion, through First Cit­i­zens Bank Lim­it­ed (FCBL).

Kent In­vest­ments (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed has been se­lect­ed to man­age, mar­ket, and op­er­ate the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) ho­tel that has bare­ly been used since the open­ing of NA­PA in 2009.

Geopo­lit­i­cal pres­sures are not yet af­fect­ing busi­ness at Court Op­ti­cal, but the com­pa­ny is keep­ing an eye on the tar­iff sit­u­a­tion.

There is lin­ger­ing scep­ti­cism sur­round­ing the con­struc­tion of a new San­dals lux­u­ry re­sort in To­ba­go, de­spite the re­cent green light giv­en by lo­cal stake­hold­ers for the in­ter­na­tion­al ho­tel chain to sub­mit a new de­vel­op­ment pro­pos­al for the is­land.