Busi­ness­es in T&T that fail to ad­dress work­place di­ver­si­ty could face high­er em­ploy­ee turnover and re­cruit­ment costs and weak­er in­no­va­tion po­ten­tial­ly un­der­min­ing their fi­nan­cial per­for­mance and com­pet­i­tive­ness, ac­cord­ing to Pres­i­dent of the Hu­man Re­source Man­age­ment As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (HRMATT) Cavelle Joseph-St. Omer.

The 2026 cam­paign of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) in the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has been dis­ap­point­ing.

Be­hind the head­line promise of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) new ba­by grant ini­tia­tive lies a sober­ing eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty.

A 33-year-old Trinida­di­an na­tion­al and law­ful per­ma­nent Unit­ed States res­i­dent has plead­ed guilty to sex traf­fick­ing and ad­mit­ted to kid­nap­ping six ad­di­tion­al women.

CIBC Caribbean Bank Ltd de­liv­ered a fi­nan­cial re­bound for the nine months end­ed Ju­ly 31, 2026, dri­ven by ex­pand­ing loan port­fo­lios, dig­i­tal in­no­va­tion, and sharply re­duced cred­it loss pro­vi­sions.

TTMA and Amcham T&T are call­ing for re­newed com­mer­cial en­gage­ment with Venezuela to go be­yond en­er­gy, as the they see op­por­tu­ni­ties for lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers, ex­porters, and in­vestors as re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries im­prove.

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) has an­nounced a sig­nif­i­cant ex­pan­sion of its sus­tain­able fi­nance com­mit­ments of an ad­di­tion­al US$550 mil­lion un­der the RFHL group cli­mate fi­nance goal and SDG fi­nan­cial in­clu­sion tar­get for SMEs (2026-2030).

By lunchtime in San Fer­nan­do, chick­en is still on the menu. But be­hind the coun­ters of the city’s restau­rants and food out­lets, get­ting enough of it is be­com­ing a more com­pli­cat­ed busi­ness.

Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL) dis­sent­ing share­hold­er, Pe­ter Per­me­ll, yes­ter­day re­ject­ed the of­fer by the Agos­ti­ni Group of $12.15 per share for his shares in the restau­rant man­age­ment com­pa­ny as “not on­ly woe­ful­ly in­ad­e­quate, but it seems to want to add in­sult to in­jury.”

In a move to­ward dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion and fi­nan­cial trans­paren­cy, the T&T Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) has launched its new da­ta hub for fi­nan­cial and mar­ket sta­tis­tics.

Sco­tia­bank T&T has an­nounced a change in its se­nior fi­nance lead­er­ship, with chief ac­coun­tant and comp­trol­ler Sameer Mo­hammed demit­ting of­fice ef­fec­tive Au­gust 31, 2026, to pur­sue oth­er pro­fes­sion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties out­side the bank.

Cra­paud Foot Restau­rant has per­ma­nent­ly closed its doors, bring­ing an end to a ven­ture that sought to of­fer din­ers more than a tra­di­tion­al restau­rant ex­pe­ri­ence.