Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley de­liv­ered an in­spir­ing speech that was aimed at en­cour­ag­ing the peo­ples of the Caribbean to see that this place we call home has the po­ten­tial for great things.

Price­wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers (PwC) T&T has ar­gued that the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has ac­cel­er­at­ed changes in how and where we work, not­ing that for many or­gan­i­sa­tions the cri­sis has brought to the fore the dis­crep­an­cy be­tween the skills peo­ple have and those need­ed for jobs in the dig­i­tal world.

Chair­man of the The Trinidad and To­ba­go Bev­er­age Al­co­hol Al­liance (TTBAA) Dr Patrick An­toine has called for the re-open­ing of food and bev­er­age en­ti­ties in T&T.

The T&T Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) is host to the 9th Tech­ni­cal As­sis­tance Pro­gramme for fi­nan­cial sec­tor reg­u­la­tors in the Caribbean, be­ing fa­cil­i­tat­ed by the Unit­ed States Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (US SEC).

The CEO of At­lantic LNG, Dr Philip Mshel­bi­la has con­tend­ed that there are signs that de­mand for en­er­gy is on the rise once again. How­ev­er, he ad­mit­ted that the in­crease has been slug­gish.

The de­ci­sion to sell the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny’s 81 Com­pa­ny-Owned Deal­er Op­er­at­ed (CO­DO) gas sta­tions comes af­ter years of the com­pa­ny haem­or­rhag­ing from the cost of up keep­ing those gas sta­tions.

Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion (SATT) Pres­i­dent Ra­jiv Diptee has been elect­ed to serve in the post for an­oth­er two-year term.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­nounced that the gov­ern­ment will re­vis­it the en­er­gy sec­tor tax regime to en­sure the coun­try re­mains com­pet­i­tive.

Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration Inc has made a sig­nif­i­cant on­shore gas dis­cov­ery at its Chi­nook-1 ex­plo­ration well on its Or­toire ex­plo­ration block ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the com­pa­ny.

The 2021 bud­get has been read, de­bate on it con­tin­ues, but in the main it has re­ceived good re­views from the pri­vate sec­tor and many mem­bers of the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty.

Gov­ern­ment re­cov­ered $119 mil­lion of the debt owed to it by Cli­co when it ac­quired CL Ma­rine ac­cord­ing to Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert.

Gov­ern­ment is look­ing to de-reg­is­ter used car deal­ers who have not ob­served all the terms of their deal­er­ship ac­cord­ing to Trade Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon.