Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) achieved a prof­it of $1.32 bil­lion for the year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30—an in­crease of $70.7 mil­lion or 5.6 per cent over the pre­vi­ous fi­nan­cial year. To­tal as­sets stood at $70.5 bil­lion, an in­crease of 2.5 per­cent over 2017.

Oil and gas com­pa­nies have been giv­en six months to bid on any or all of the six blocks of­fered in the 2018 T&T shal­low-wa­ter bid round. This was an­nounced yes­ter­day by En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan as the coun­try’s first shal­low-wa­ter bid round in eight years was launched.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bissses­sar has ad­vised Guyana to be very care­ful as its builds its new found gas and en­er­gy sec­tor as she crit­i­cised the de­ci­sion of Gov­ern­ment to shut down the state-owned oil com­pa­ny, Petrotrin.

One of Lon­don's icon­ic cabs wrapped in To­ba­go Be­yond brand­ing im­agery has tak­en to the streets of the British cap­i­tal as part of a new brand­ing strat­e­gy be­ing rolled out at the World Trav­el Mar­ket 2018 (WTM).

Death of a Sales­man is a play writ­ten by Amer­i­can play­wright Arthur Miller in 1949. It ad­dress­es the loss of iden­ti­ty and the in­abil­i­ty of a man to ac­cept change; the changes around him and the changes with­in him. It is wide­ly con­sid­ered one of the great­est plays of the 20th cen­tu­ry.

The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (BATT) is urg­ing the Op­po­si­tion to ful­ly co­op­er­ate to en­sure the pas­sage of the In­come Tax (Amend­ment) Bill 2018. It was on­ly last week that Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert said the coun­try’s fi­nan­cial sys­tem faces for­eign cen­sure and chaos if Par­lia­ment failed to pass a bill to share tax de­tails with for­eign states.

Cin­e­maONE Gem­stone 4DX CEO and di­rec­tor In­grid Jahra is pleased the com­pa­ny has raised near­ly half of some $30.8 mil­lion it is seek­ing from its first ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing (IPO).

Di­vali, the Hin­du fes­ti­val of lights, has en­joyed strong ties to T&T’s busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty over the years, ac­cord­ing to Aneela Bhag­wat, a mem­ber of the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC).

The sharp in­creas­es food crop prices since last month's floods are the sim­ple ef­fect of sup­ply and de­mand, says CEO of the Na­tion­al Agri­cul­tur­al Mar­ket­ing and De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (Namde­v­co), Nir­mal­la De­bysingh-Per­sad.

The T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce’s Cham­pi­ons of Busi­ness Awards are meant to in­spire fu­ture en­tre­pre­neurs, CEO Gabr­i­al Faria said on Thurs­day evening.

T&T has been able to avoid a cat­a­stro­phe, ac­cord­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley in his ad­dress a cer­e­mo­ny to mark the sign­ing of a new gas sales agree­ment be­tween the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and the coun­try’s largest am­mo­nia pro­duc­er, Nu­trien.

T&T has lost its place as the largest ex­porter of am­mo­nia in the world ac­cord­ing to the lat­est in­dus­try fig­ures.