It is based in Para­mari­bo and op­er­ates re­gion­al and long-haul pas­sen­ger ser­vices from its hub at Jo­han Adolf Pen­gel In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ( Zan­der­ij).

Banks can store hun­dreds, even thou­sands of da­ta points on their cus­tomers. They in­clude every­thing from ba­sic bi­o­graph­ic in­for­ma­tion (name, ad­dress, na­tion­al ID num­ber, etc) to com­pre­hen­sive big da­ta pre­dic­tive mod­els based on past trans­ac­tions, de­mo­graph­ics, and a wealth of oth­er in­puts.

But the Trinidad & To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed yes­ter­day is­sued a re­lease re­mind­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic that “smok­ing is strict­ly pro­hib­it­ed at Ser­vice Sta­tions as it pos­es a sig­nif­i­cant risk as a lit cig­a­rette or loose cig­a­rette ash can ig­nite gaso­line vapours in the air.”

The Wealth Man­age­ment Unit of ANSA Mer­chant Bank has com­mit­ted to be­ing a plat­inum spon­sor for the Foun­da­tion for the En­hance­ment and En­rich­ment of Life's (FEEL) up­com­ing first char­i­ty golf tour­na­ment.

Jobs to re­vi­talise a rav­aged sec­tor has been promised fol­low­ing the sign­ing on Mon­day of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) be­tween Roy­al Caribbean In­ter­na­tion­al and the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts.

The T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion  were both full of praise fol­low­ing the sign­ing of the Guyana - T&T Mem­o­ran­dum Of Un­der­stand­ing over the week­end

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of T&T re­cent­ly pre­sent­ed a pol­i­cy pa­per ti­tled, “Nearshoring Frame­work and Ra­tio­nale for the Gov­ern­ment of T&T” to the Trade Min­istry aimed at boost­ing this coun­try’s econ­o­my.

This coun­try spent close to $33 bil­lion on Se­nior Cit­i­zens’ Pen­sion (SCP) pay­ments for the ten years from 2012 to 2021.

“On av­er­age cus­tomers have com­plained about wait­ing for tech­ni­cians for quite some time to get ser­vices, so now you can get it soon­er rather than lat­er,” Pru­dence Williams-La Bor­de Flow’s man­ag­er, per­for­mance op­ti­mi­sa­tion told the Busi­ness Guardian.

The petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor has been a life jack­et for the T&T econ­o­my ad­mit­ted Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert as he pre­sent­ed the mid-year bud­get re­view last Mon­day.

While busi­ness­es have wel­comed the pay­ment of out­stand­ing (Val­ue Added Tax) VAT re­funds and a pos­i­tive eco­nom­ic pro­jec­tion as an­nounced by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert dur­ing his mid-year bud­get re­view on Mon­day, they be­lieve, how­ev­er, that more must be done to en­able a more con­ducive busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment which the min­is­ter could have in­clud­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to Richard Young, chair­man of the T&T In­ter­na­tion­al Fi­nan­cial Cen­tre (TTIFC) in a world where phys­i­cal cash con­tin­ues to be re­placed by dig­i­tal mon­ey, this coun­try’s de­vel­op­ment of a ro­bust and ag­ile dig­i­tal econ­o­my will be fun­da­men­tal to its fu­ture eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty.