Pri­vate health­care provider, Med­corp, said last night that its Ini­tial Pub­lic Of­fer­ing (IPO) of 350,000 or­di­nary shares at $48 a share was ful­ly sub­scribed and raised the $16.8 mil­lion ex­pect­ed.

SME en­tre­pre­neurs face nu­mer­ous chal­lenges in build­ing a suc­cess­ful en­ter­prise, and one of them stands out from the crowd. An un­known brand is one ob­sta­cle to scal­ing the busi­ness. How do you, as an en­tre­pre­neur, craft a brand strat­e­gy and break out from your mar­ket­ing Al­ca­traz?

To­ba­go and Bar­ba­dos have joined to­geth­er to pro­mote the di­rect Con­dor flights from Ger­many for the 2025/2026 win­ter sea­son — a move ex­pect­ed to se­cure ear­ly book­ings and boost tourist ar­rivals to both is­lands.

Last week­end, as a re­sult of the Labour Day and Cor­pus Christi hol­i­days, T&T’s work­ers en­joyed an­oth­er four-day hol­i­day week­end for 2025.

As the glob­al prices of oil fail to surge, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, says a spike in prices was nev­er a cer­tain­ty.

Ear­li­er this year, I met a young grad­u­ate who had spent the en­tire sum­mer search­ing for a job that matched her ed­u­ca­tion—with­out suc­cess. As the weeks passed and her op­tions nar­rowed, she ap­plied to a lo­cal meat shop, hop­ing to find some form of em­ploy­ment. But even there, she was turned away—she was “overqual­i­fied” to pack chick­en legs.

Lar­ry Howai is one of the peo­ple in the fi­nan­cial sec­tor who I hold in high re­gard, hav­ing re­port­ed on him since his ap­point­ment as the CEO of the First Cit­i­zens Group in 1997 and dur­ing his ser­vice as min­is­ter of fi­nance and the econ­o­my from Ju­ly 2012 to Sep­tem­ber 2015.

In a dis­clo­sure dur­ing T&T’s 2025 Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view last Wednes­day, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie re­vealed a $200 mil­lion “black hole” in le­gal fees with­in his min­istry—a rev­e­la­tion that has ig­nit­ed con­cerns over fis­cal dis­ci­pline, pro­cure­ment prac­tices and the broad­er cul­ture of ac­count­abil­i­ty in pub­lic fi­nance.

Cus­tomers are irate with Trin­ba­go Ex­press T&T Ltd as they have not re­ceived their bar­rels from as far back as No­vem­ber 2024, while some have since sought le­gal ac­tion. 

The Green Fund is an of­ten-over­looked as­set in Trinidad and To­ba­go. It has been qui­et­ly ac­cu­mu­lat­ing a sig­nif­i­cant amount of funds and is rarely ever tapped. At present, the fund con­tains over $11 bil­lion, but on­ly around $326 mil­lion has ever been dis­bursed in 16 years. This da­ta was re­cent­ly re­leased with the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port 2024.

Ja­maican Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness says the gov­ern­ment in­tends to have Ja­maica es­tab­lished as a leader in lo­gis­tics and man­u­fac­tur­ing, as well as an in­vest­ment des­ti­na­tion.

This sim­ple yet pow­er­ful anal­o­gy per­fect­ly cap­tures the essence of two es­sen­tial busi­ness pil­lars. While mar­ket­ing is the strat­e­gy that catch­es at­ten­tion and in­spires ac­tion, brand­ing is the emo­tion­al glue that builds trust and keeps cus­tomers com­ing back.