It start­ed in 1983 as a small fam­i­ly-run hard­ware lo­cat­ed at a busy in­ter­sec­tion in Cou­va.

It goes al­most with­out say­ing that the sec­ond shut­down has af­fect­ed the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty more than the first.

bp Trinidad and To­ba­go (bpTT) has said it is deeply con­cerned and dis­ap­point­ed that con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion it shared at a re­cent­ly held tech­ni­cal meet­ing end­ed up in yes­ter­day’s Trinidad Guardian News­pa­per.

The man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor con­tin­ues to be re­silient and even in­no­v­a­tive de­spite chal­lenges brought on by COVID-19.

As op­er­a­tions re­turn to nor­mal in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the man­u­fac­tur­ing in­dus­try has drawn its eyes to ac­tiv­i­ty be­yond its bor­ders.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has boast­ed that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cred­it rat­ing has not been down­grad­ed by in­ter­na­tion­al cred­it rat­ing agency S&P, de­spite the agency chang­ing its out­look for this coun­try to neg­a­tive from sta­ble.

In the last sev­en days we have wit­nessed S&P in­di­cat­ing that its out­look for T&T was now neg­a­tive, down from sta­ble—bpTT telling the Gov­ern­ment of its fore­cast of ma­jor nat­ur­al gas short­falls, and the an­nounce­ment of progress be­ing made by Shell and bpTT on al­ready sanc­tioned projects.

As­so­ci­at­ed Brands In­dus­tries Lim­it­ed (ABIL) has been able to com­plete an en­tire fac­to­ry in Colom­bia more or less re­mote­ly, ABIL Deputy Chair­man/Group CEO Nicholas Lok Jack has re­vealed.

A High Court Judge has de­clared that ma­jor­i­ty State-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) is legal­ly re­quired to im­ple­ment fixed num­ber porta­bil­i­ty (FNP) for fixed lines. 

The man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor is a vi­tal pil­lar and a key dri­ver of com­pet­i­tive­ness in the econ­o­my as it is a ma­jor con­trib­u­tor to the coun­try’s GDP, a net for­eign ex­change earn­er and a ma­jor em­ploy­er.

Shell T&T yes­ter­day an­nounced that pro­duc­tion has start­ed from its Bar­racu­da project af­ter achiev­ing first gas on Sun­day.

Is­land Sea Fest of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced a cruise geared specif­i­cal­ly to­wards Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val in 2023. The part­ner­ship with the Roy­al Caribbean In­ter­na­tion­al, which was an­nounced on Ju­ly 19, will be for an 11-night cruise, five of which it will be docked in Port-of-Spain at the height of Car­ni­val ac­tiv­i­ty.