Un­der the weight of shrink­ing fis­cal space, weak eco­nom­ic growth and mount­ing debt oblig­a­tions, T&T’s pub­lic fi­nances are fac­ing in­creas­ing­ly hard choic­es.

At the close of trad­ing on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change on Tues­day, the TTNGL share price was $8.52, in­di­cat­ing that the val­ue of the pub­licly list­ed, ma­jor­i­ty state-owned/con­trolled in­vest­ment hold­ing com­pa­ny had more than tripled from its price of $2.64 at the start of 2026.

True’s Cre­ationz is just a lit­tle over a year old, and al­ready its own­er is get­ting her chil­dren in­volved in build­ing what she sees as their foun­da­tion for gen­er­a­tional wealth.

Over the past year, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress ad­min­is­tra­tion has tak­en some steps to trans­late its 2025 man­i­festo promis­es in­to con­crete ac­tions for the food and agri­cul­ture sec­tor. The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries has pri­ori­tised train­ing and ca­pac­i­ty build­ing, launch­ing the Na­tion­al Agri­cul­tur­al Train­ing Ini­tia­tive (NATI) in ear­ly 2026 to train rough­ly 20,000 farm­ers and agri-en­tre­pre­neurs across 35 cours­es, with a strong fo­cus on mod­ern, cli­mate-re­silient tech­niques and agro-pro­cess­ing. This aligns with the man­i­festo’s pledge to mod­ernise farm­ing through pre­ci­sion agri­cul­ture, dig­i­tal tools, and ded­i­cat­ed train­ing cen­tres, and marks one of the most clear­ly rolled-out man­i­fes­ta­tions of the UNC’s agri-mod­erni­sa­tion agen­da.

BP and the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MoU) for the ex­plo­ration of nat­ur­al gas in the Lo­ran off­shore area, in­ter­na­tion­al news agen­cies re­port­ed yes­ter­day.

Econ­o­mist Ronald Ramkissoon has said this coun­try’s reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies should raise ques­tions about whether re­cent in­creas­es in bank­ing fees are jus­ti­fied.

Of­ten over­looked as a sup­port func­tion, fa­cil­i­ties man­age­ment qui­et­ly dri­ves pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, re­silience and fi­nan­cial ef­fi­cien­cy across or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor de­liv­ered on­ly a mar­gin­al im­prove­ment in 2025, as gains in petro­chem­i­cal prices helped off­set a sharp fall in oil prices, but deep­er struc­tur­al chal­lenges con­tin­ue to weigh on the in­dus­try, ac­cord­ing to the Cen­tral Bank’s An­nu­al Eco­nom­ic Sur­vey and in­de­pen­dent en­er­gy ex­perts.

There are kinder­gartens clos­ing in Uruguay and Chile. Busi­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go are pay­ing more for pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty. A pirogue is cross­ing the Gulf of Paria from Venezuela with ques­tion­able car­go. A pen­sion­er in Trinidad is anx­ious about his NIS ben­e­fits.

Sev­er­al T&T en­er­gy sec­tor ser­vice com­pa­nies will be seek­ing to fur­ther show­case their ex­per­tise in­ter­na­tion­al at the Off­shore Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence 2026.

The Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean are eco­nom­i­cal­ly and so­cial­ly vul­ner­a­ble due to small­ness in terms of ge­og­ra­phy and pop­u­la­tions, cli­mate risks, lim­it­ed di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and on­go­ing de­vel­op­ments in in­ter­na­tion­al trade. De­spite these short­com­ings,Caribbean SIDS can­not be ig­nored as they con­trol vast ma­rine re­sources, are at the fore­front of glob­al ef­forts to com­bat cli­mate change, en­hance bio­di­ver­si­ty and con­tribute to­wards sus­tain­abil­i­ty in de­vel­oped as well as de­vel­op­ing economies. It is there­fore im­per­a­tive that Caribbean SIDS re­ceive the glob­al at­ten­tion and sup­port re­quired to fu­el their growth.

The ver­sion peo­ple miss runs for months be­fore any of that ex­ists. Held to­geth­er by group chats, dis­con­nect­ed spread­sheets, and a few peo­ple who car­ry the en­tire op­er­a­tion in their heads be­cause no­body built any­thing bet­ter.