CIBC Caribbean yes­ter­day an­nounced the ap­point­ment of vet­er­an banker, Ma­hadeo Se­barath as the new head of coun­try for its T&T busi­ness.

The Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness (ALJGSB) and the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce have an­nounced the rein­tro­duc­tion of the na­tion­al busi­ness sen­ti­ment sur­vey, for­mer­ly known as the cor­po­rate con­fi­dence in­dex.

The pace of elec­tric ve­hi­cle (EV) sales is pick­ing up around the world. In fact, in 2024, elec­tric car sales sur­passed 17 mil­lion world­wide, in­creas­ing by more than 25 per cent from 2023. The glob­al stock of EVs is cur­rent­ly around 58 mil­lion ve­hi­cles and the pen­e­tra­tion of EVs in­to the glob­al mar­ket has dis­placed over one mil­lion bar­rels per day of oil con­sump­tion in 2024.

French am­bas­sador to T&T, Di­di­er Chabert, is hope­ful that a so­lu­tion to the for­eign ex­change cri­sis would be found in the in­ter­est of the coun­try’s econ­o­my.

Caribbean Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance In­sti­tute (CC­GI) chair­man Nigel Ro­mano is warn­ing that Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) can lead to a small­er work­force.

The T&T Pro­mot­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) is sound­ing the alarm over pro­posed leg­isla­tive re­forms that they be­lieve could dis­rupt the en­ter­tain­ment and tourism sec­tors.

The an­nounce­ment on June 30, 2025 by IDB In­vest to sub­scribe to $250 mil­lion in so­cial bonds is­sued by T&T Mort­gage Bank Ltd (TTMB), in part­ner­ship with Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd (RBL), marks the first time in the Caribbean such fi­nanc­ing is tar­get­ting women.

Peren­co has be­come a ma­jor oil and gas pro­duc­er in T&T fol­low­ing ac­qui­si­tion of as­sets from Wood­side en­er­gy.

The Brechin Cas­tle So­lar, a joint ven­ture of bp, Shell, and a sub­sidiary of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny, on Wednes­day wel­comed key Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and stake­hold­ers to its project site in Cou­va.

Fac­ing a tight for­eign ex­change mar­ket, PriceS­mart’s Trinidad busi­ness­es have turned to the Ja­maican cap­i­tal mar­kets and Trinida­di­an banks to source up to US$65 mil­lion for the con­struc­tion of its dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tre and set­tle­ment of its out­stand­ing payables.

Chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of state-owned oil pro­duc­er Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny, Erik Kesku­la, has re­signed to take up a job of­fer at an in­ter­na­tion­al com­pa­ny.

Cana­da abrupt­ly can­celled its dig­i­tal ser­vices tax less than 24 hours be­fore col­lect­ing US$2 bil­lion from tech gi­ants. The trig­ger wasn’t Sil­i­con Val­ley lob­by­ing—it was Pres­i­dent Trump’s threat to sus­pend trade ne­go­ti­a­tions, call­ing the tax “an at­tack on Amer­i­ca.”