The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) has re­leased the Con­sumer Price In­dex (CPI) for May 2026, re­veal­ing that an­nu­al in­fla­tion has eased to 0.3 per cent.

Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd (PPG­PL) has been se­lect­ed as the pre­ferred op­er­a­tor for Guyana’s Nat­ur­al Gas Liq­uids (NGL) plant, a de­vel­op­ment in­dus­try lead­ers say un­der­scores T&T’s grow­ing abil­i­ty to ex­port en­er­gy ser­vices and ex­per­tise across the Caribbean.

The en­er­gy sec­tor may be cen­tral to T&T’s econ­o­my, but ac­cord­ing to Fitzroy Hare­wood, the pres­i­dent of Point Lisas Ni­tro­gen Lim­it­ed (PLNL), it is still un­der ap­pre­ci­at­ed and mis­un­der­stood.

Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, more com­mon­ly called AI, has be­come one of the most dis­cussed tech­nolo­gies in the world to­day. While many peo­ple as­so­ciate AI with ro­bots, fu­tur­is­tic ma­chines, or large in­ter­na­tion­al com­pa­nies, the re­al­i­ty is that AI is al­ready qui­et­ly en­ter­ing every­day life and busi­ness op­er­a­tions, in­clud­ing here in T&T.

Here is some­thing worth sit­ting with. The in­ter­net has been com­mer­cial­ly avail­able in Trinidad and To­ba­go for rough­ly thir­ty years. And many lo­cal busi­ness­es still do not have a work­ing web­site.

It might be the af­ford­abil­i­ty cri­sis that is mak­ing you re­think your full-time job. It might al­so be the knowl­edge that you have and the op­por­tu­ni­ties you are miss­ing out on. You al­so see how tools from the in­for­ma­tion age are mak­ing busi­ness start-ups eas­i­er and less ex­pen­sive. Start­ing a ven­ture at home can be fun and re­ward­ing and, im­por­tant­ly, help you re­alise your full po­ten­tial.

Caribbean Air­lines has an­nounced the in­tro­duc­tion of dai­ly non-stop flights be­tween Toron­to and George­town, Guyana, ef­fec­tive Ju­ly 1, pro­vid­ing cus­tomers with greater flex­i­bil­i­ty and con­ve­nience just in time for the peak sum­mer trav­el pe­ri­od.

Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Ltd (NEL) post­ed a net prof­it of TT$237 mil­lion for the six-month pe­ri­od end­ed March 31, 2026, and an­nounced an ex­pand­ed po­si­tion in At­lantic LNG, sig­nalling con­fi­dence in the long-term val­ue of its port­fo­lio.

There is a pe­cu­liar mood in parts of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy de­bate, es­pe­cial­ly as it re­lates to cross bor­der gas with Venezuela. It in­volves an un­der­cur­rent that tries to cre­ate doubt that Venezue­lan gas would reach our shores.

T&T busi­ness­es say they are be­ing squeezed on all fronts—soar­ing crime-re­lat­ed costs, a stub­born for­eign ex­change crunch and ris­ing eco­nom­ic un­cer­tain­ty.

In­flu­encers have be­come a huge part of brand mar­ket­ing, with their ser­vices cost­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in the Caribbean. And Dar­ren Hosang-Rud­der and his team at Restayge be­lieve the use of in­flu­encers as a mar­ket­ing tool is on­ly go­ing to in­crease.

Dur­ing Colm Im­bert’s nine years and six months as T&T min­is­ter of fi­nance—he served in that po­si­tion from Sep­tem­ber 2015 to March 2025—few of his col­leagues in the then Op­po­si­tion chal­lenged his pre­sen­ta­tion of da­ta and sta­tis­tics, ei­ther dur­ing his bud­get pre­sen­ta­tions or dur­ing de­bates in Par­lia­ment.