Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Do­minic Smith, says the Gov­ern­ment is pro­gress­ing with work on build­ing a mod­ern, cit­i­zen-cen­tred and dig­i­tal­ly en­abled Pub­lic Ser­vice.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Suri­name En­er­gy Cham­ber signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) at the Suri­name En­er­gy, Oil and Gas Sum­mit (SEOGS) 2026.

First Cit­i­zens Hold­ings Ltd share­hold­ers yes­ter­day elect­ed two new di­rec­tors to the board of the ma­jor­i­ty state-owned bank at its an­nu­al meet­ing at the Hilton Trinidad, while ap­prov­ing the com­pa­ny's au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments and the reap­point­ment of au­di­tors.

A lo­cal tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny is bet­ting that ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence can help solve one of the Caribbean’s most per­sis­tent eco­nom­ic chal­lenges: the lack of fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy among work­ers and house­holds.

The Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion (FTC) is seek­ing clos­er en­gage­ment with the pri­vate sec­tor as it moves to strength­en com­pe­ti­tion pol­i­cy and pro­mote fair­er mar­kets, while con­cerns over ris­ing nat­ur­al gas prices emerged dur­ing a stake­hold­er con­sul­ta­tion with busi­ness­es.

For over 20 years, Jeanette Mar­celle has been dish­ing out the tasti­est of meals. Whether in kitchens in the Caribbean, France, the US or on board a lux­u­ry cruise ship, she has tak­en every op­por­tu­ni­ty to de­vel­op her culi­nary skills.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) Emil Ramkissoon has said that the busi­ness group has set the am­bi­tious tar­get of dou­bling T&T’s non-en­er­gy ex­ports to TT$10.6 bil­lion by 2030.

Ger­man Am­bas­sador Dr Christophe Eick points to Ger­man in­volve­ment in Point Lisas, con­tin­ued par­tic­i­pa­tion in the en­er­gy sec­tor, and grow­ing in­ter­est in re­new­able en­er­gy, food ex­ports and trade di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion as ev­i­dence of an eco­nom­ic re­la­tion­ship that con­tin­ues to evolve be­yond its tra­di­tion­al foun­da­tions.

A sta­tis­tic re­leased re­cent­ly should stop every pol­i­cy­mak­er, busi­ness leader and cit­i­zen in their tracks.

A stark warn­ing is emerg­ing over T&T’s fis­cal tra­jec­to­ry, with econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James cau­tion­ing that be­hind mod­est head­line fig­ures lie an econ­o­my strug­gling to gen­er­ate mean­ing­ful growth while tak­ing on in­creas­ing­ly cost­ly debt.

The ris­ing de­mand for home im­prove­ment and self-care has dri­ven US man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­ny Kohler Co to bet big on T&T and the Caribbean mar­ket.

An agree­ment to de­vel­op dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion train­ing cen­tres was se­cured at the ITU Re­gion­al De­vel­op­ment Fo­rum for the Amer­i­c­as (RDF-AMS) and the Re­gion­al Work­shop on Reg­u­la­to­ry In­no­va­tion and Sand­box in Carta­ge­na, Colom­bia, on Wednes­day, June 17, 2026.