ANSA Mer­chant Bank Group has earned net op­er­at­ing in­come of $114 mil­lion in the first quar­ter to March 2025, 4.2 per cent low­er than the pri­or year’s com­par­a­tive $119 mil­lion.

Peren­co T&T Lim­it­ed has found nat­ur­al gas fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful drilling of the Onyx well.

Ex­perts, firearms deal­ers and busi­ness lead­ers con­tin­ues to rage on, on whether firearms are a nec­es­sary tool that can pro­tect busi­ness peo­ple and the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion in the fight against crime.

There is lit­tle doubt that a ma­jor fac­tor in the over­whelm­ing vic­to­ry of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) at the April 28, 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion was the par­ty’s promise to im­prove the stan­dard of liv­ing of the pop­u­la­tion. By that, I mean the UNC con­vinced enough vot­ers that if it was vic­to­ri­ous at the poll, their dis­pos­able in­comes would in­crease.

Ac­cord­ing to the Cen­tral Bank’s An­nu­al Eco­nom­ic Sur­vey 2024, which was re­leased two weeks ago, 2024 saw a surge in banks’ lend­ing to con­sumers.

The Gross Do­mes­tic Prod­uct (GDP) of a coun­try is the mar­ket val­ue of all the fi­nal goods and ser­vices pro­duced with­in a coun­try’s bor­ders.

The de­ba­cle sur­round­ing Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher’s trun­cat­ed tenure as com­mis­sion­er of po­lice has not on­ly cre­at­ed rip­ples through­out the coun­try but the now the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty says on a larg­er scale, the in­ter­nal wran­glings with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, can af­fect in­vestor con­fi­dence.

Sagi­cor Fi­nan­cial Com­pa­ny on Tues­day re­port­ed core earn­ings of US$29.7 mil­lion in its first quar­ter end­ed March 31, 2025, which was 120 per cent more than the US$13.5 mil­lion the group earned in the same pe­ri­od in 2024.

In the first few months of Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond term as US pres­i­dent, Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio met in-per­son with the heads of gov­ern­ment of 13 of the 14 in­de­pen­dent mem­ber states of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) bloc. Caribbean lead­ers were ea­ger for such high-lev­el diplo­mat­ic en­gage­ment with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion out of the blocks. They as­sessed that their re­spec­tive coun­tries’ in­ter­ests—which have long rest­ed on Amer­i­can sup­port—would be served by this diplo­ma­cy.

While there were views ex­pressed on so­cial me­dia from for­mer politi­cians that Trade and Tourism should not have been placed in one min­istry, tourism stake­hold­ers want mar­ket­ing to be at the fore­front, along with oth­er chal­lenges to be ad­dressed.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca (CAF) in an in­tro­duc­to­ry meet­ing on Mon­day.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has de­fend­ed its for­eign cur­ren­cy-based pay­ment mod­el, say­ing near­ly 70 per cent of its ex­pens­es—such as air­craft leas­es, fu­el, tax­es and main­te­nance—are billed in for­eign cur­ren­cy. The air­line in­sists this “eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty” re­quires a bal­anced ap­proach to main­tain its fi­nan­cial sus­tain­abil­i­ty.