In light of the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley in­di­cat­ing that restau­rants are to be closed from to­day, Glob­al Brands Chair­man Mario Sab­ga-Aboud has in­di­cat­ed that his staff will be paid some­thing to sus­tain them­selves un­til the end of the month.

Tourism Trinidad Ltd (TTL) has part­nered with “The Busi­ness of Car­ni­val,” a first of a kind You Tube Se­ries by En­ter­tain­ment and Sports Lawyer Car­la Par­ris, to present the Stay­Home­an­dLEVELUP cam­paign.

The De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca (CAF) has do­nat­ed US$400,000 (ap­prox­i­mate­ly TT$2.7 mil­lion) to in­crease the safe­ty of peo­ple work­ing to­wards the de­ter­rence, re­duc­tion and nurs­ing of pa­tients af­flict­ed by COVID-19. 

Caribbean Air­lines has is­sued an up­date to its cur­rent trav­el waiv­er, to in­clude cus­tomers with trav­el plans be­tween Ju­ly 1, and up to Au­gust 30, 2020, who may be im­pact­ed by COVID-19.

The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (BATT) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic to ad­here to the pub­lic health guide­lines re­gard­ing so­cial dis­tanc­ing and slow­ing the spread of COVID-19 by han­dling your fi­nances re­mote­ly­—ex­plore all your bank’s se­cure dig­i­tal so­lu­tions, all from your web brows­er.

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd has an­nounced that the group will be mak­ing a to­tal con­tri­bu­tion of US$2 mil­lion for the pur­chase of ven­ti­la­tors, test­ing kits, PPE and food among oth­er things across all of the ter­ri­to­ries in which it op­er­ates in­clud­ing T&T, Grena­da, Guyana, Bar­ba­dos, Ghana, Suri­name, Cay­man Is­lands, St Lu­cia, St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, St Kitts and Nevis, St Maarten, An­guil­la and Do­mini­ca.

Sco­tia­bank has an­nounced that it has im­ple­ment­ed ad­di­tion­al mea­sures at its branch­es to help keep cus­tomers and em­ploy­ees safe.

The ANSA McAL Group of Com­pa­nies has record­ed a prof­it be­fore tax (PBT) of $1.036 bil­lion for the year end­ed 2019, up by 2 per cent when com­pared to pre­vi­ous pe­ri­od’s PBT of $1.017 bil­lion.

Faced with the pan­dem­ic caused by the nov­el coro­n­avirus that has re­suk­t­ed in tens of thou­sands of deaths glob­al­ly, gov­ern­ments all over the world, in­clud­ing T&T, have cre­at­ed great eco­nom­ic hard­ships on their peo­ple as they try to flat­ten the curve and there­fore lim­it the spread of COVID-19; in the process sav­ing lives.

Sco­tia­bank is now of­fer­ing au­to­mat­ic de­fer­ral, for a pe­ri­od of up to six months, to all its clients who may have loans or cred­it cards pay­ments due to the bank.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank and its in­sur­ance com­pa­nies Tatil and Tatil Life gen­er­at­ed record rev­enue and net in­come last year, chair­man A. Nor­man Sab­ga has stat­ed.

Ger­ry Brooks has been ap­point­ed the chair­man of the Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC). Brooks’ ap­point­ment took ef­fect on March 11 for a term of two years.