Chargé d'af­faires at the US Em­bassy in Port of Spain, Philip Kern, hopes dis­cus­sions at the Caribbean Food In­vest­ment Round­table on Thurs­day will spur for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment to help im­prove food se­cu­ri­ty in the re­gion.

A re­gion­al bond tar­get­ing up to US$250 mil­lion to fi­nance cli­mate re­silience, re­new­able en­er­gy and sus­tain­able in­fra­struc­ture across the Caribbean was launched at the Caribbean In­vest­ment Fo­rum in Bar­ba­dos, cre­at­ing a new in­vest­ment plat­form aimed at ad­dress­ing the re­gion’s de­vel­op­ment fi­nanc­ing gap.

Glob­alTT part­nered with Trinidad & To­ba­go Restau­rant Week (TTRW) to ex­e­cute this year’s edi­tion of TTRW, start­ing with a launch event on Sep­tem­ber 29 at Rhythms “N” Brews in Gulf City.

Em­ploy­ees at Nu­trien’s Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ty are con­sid­er­ing le­gal ac­tion fol­low­ing the fer­tilis­er gi­ant’s de­ci­sion to in­def­i­nite­ly shut down its Trinidad op­er­a­tions, amid grow­ing con­cerns over their sev­er­ance pack­ages.

I don't re­mem­ber the first time I felt it, but the feel­ing has fol­lowed me all my life: the al­most hyp­not­ic pull of watch­ing peo­ple play in a steel­band. Stand in any pa­n­yard and you will see it. The wild fa­cial ex­pres­sions, the bod­ies mov­ing with the rhythm, the in­tense con­cen­tra­tion that sud­den­ly breaks in­to a smile. The play­ers are not just mak­ing mu­sic; they are com­plete­ly im­mersed in it. There is some­thing in­her­ent­ly joy­ful about play­ing the steel­pan.

The Caribbean Mu­sic Awards (CMA) on Sep­tem­ber 19 was a mem­o­rable oc­ca­sion for re­gion­al artistes, but it held a spe­cial mean­ing for de­sign­er Kambe Lovelace. The young de­sign­er got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to style singer and song­writer Shereese “Mela Caribe” Ed­mund, and to see two of his KAMBE The Brand pieces in the spot­light—on the red car­pet and at the af­ter par­ty.

T&T en­ters the fi­nal week be­fore the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2027 na­tion­al bud­get, fac­ing mount­ing eco­nom­ic pres­sures, with econ­o­mists warn­ing that slow­ing growth, ris­ing un­em­ploy­ment, per­sis­tent for­eign ex­change short­ages and an econ­o­my still de­pen­dent on de­clin­ing en­er­gy pro­duc­tion are pos­ing se­ri­ous chal­lenges to the coun­try’s long-term prospects.

De­spite chal­lenges across busi­ness seg­ments, Courts is bet­ting on the re­silience it has seen in the Trinidad and To­ba­go mar­ket since it opened in this coun­try 35 years ago as a fur­ni­ture, home ap­pli­ance and elec­tri­cal store.

Every sea­son, fash­ion de­sign­ers launch col­lec­tions filled with cre­ativ­i­ty, crafts­man­ship, and vi­sion. The sil­hou­ettes are strong, the fab­rics are thought­ful, and the sto­ry­telling is com­pelling. Yet when it comes to sell­ing to buy­ers, the mo­men­tum stalls.

Econ­o­mists are urg­ing pol­i­cy­mak­ers to treat the World Bank’s lat­est eco­nom­ic fore­cast as a warn­ing ahead of the na­tion­al bud­get, af­ter the in­ter­na­tion­al lender pro­ject­ed that T&T’s econ­o­my will con­tract for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year be­fore stag­ing a re­cov­ery in 2027.

Sagi­cor Group Ja­maica yes­ter­day an­nounced the pub­li­ca­tion of its Com­bined Scheme and Ex­tra­or­di­nary Gen­er­al Meet­ing Book­let, along with re­lat­ed share­hold­er doc­u­ments, mark­ing an im­por­tant mile­stone in the pro­posed cre­ation of a more in­te­grat­ed Caribbean or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s nat­ur­al gas liq­uids (NGL) pro­duc­tion in­creased for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year in 2025, ex­tend­ing a re­cov­ery from the low­est lev­el record­ed in the En­er­gy In­sti­tute’s 2015–2025 se­ries.