ANSA Mer­chant Bank Ltd (AM­BL) yes­ter­day de­clared af­ter-tax prof­it of $242.19 mil­lion for the year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, a 49.3 per cent in­crease com­pared to 2024.

Un­der­scor­ing its com­mit­ment to "In­spir­ing Bet­ter Choic­es for a Bet­ter World," the ANSA McAL Group has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Melanie Richards as head of sus­tain­abil­i­ty and so­cial in­vest­ment.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance (MOF), through the In­land Rev­enue Di­vi­sion (IRD), will shift to a ful­ly dig­i­tal sys­tem for fil­ing Amuse­ment Gam­ing Tax re­turns from April 1.

From fill­ing a gap or pro­vid­ing so­lu­tions to the com­mu­ni­ty to es­tab­lish­ing a coun­try­wide name, Mus­lim busi­ness­es have achieved great suc­cess while pass­ing the reins from one gen­er­a­tion to the next.

When peo­ple in T&T think about mi­gra­tion, the same des­ti­na­tions usu­al­ly dom­i­nate the con­ver­sa­tion: the Unit­ed States, Cana­da, and the Unit­ed King­dom. These routes feel fa­mil­iar, but they have be­come in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to ac­cess. Visa back­logs, tighter im­mi­gra­tion rules, ris­ing liv­ing costs, and long pe­ri­ods of un­cer­tain­ty have made mi­gra­tion feel out of reach for many.

The av­er­age small busi­ness starts with a sol­id plan, a cash flow pro­jec­tion and, most times, a start-up loan from a fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion.

In the hu­mid, in­dus­tri­al heart­land of 1960’s Trinidad, the air was of­ten thick with the pun­gent, metal­lic tang of burn­ing elec­trodes.

With ex­ports ac­count­ing for more than 75 per cent of to­tal sales and ship­ments reach­ing about 25 coun­tries, KC Con­fec­tionery con­tin­ues to po­si­tion it­self as a steady for­eign ex­change earn­er for T&T, even as do­mes­tic eco­nom­ic con­di­tions fluc­tu­ate.

“As a re­sult of the $1.9 bil­lion with­draw­al, the to­tal fund bal­ance de­clined from $28.09 bil­lion in 2024 to $27.36 bil­lion by June 30, 2025”.

In ex­ec­u­tive spaces and board­rooms, a dif­fer­ent type of leader is emerg­ing. Hail the era of the cre­ative ex­ec­u­tive, where suc­cess­ful lead­ers are the in­di­vid­u­als who har­ness their artis­tic skills and com­bine them with tech­ni­cal com­pe­tence to cre­ate a po­tent lead­er­ship brew.

Last week’s com­men­tary in this space, which was head­lined, 'How should re­tirees in­vest their life sav­ings?' start­ed off with a chance en­counter with a re­tired pub­lic ser­vant at the Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, ad­dressed some de­mo­graph­ic is­sues re­lat­ed to the pay­ment of Na­tion­al In­sur­ance pen­sions, and then looked at a com­men­tary writ­ten by Bourse Se­cu­ri­ties, head­lined ‘Is con­ser­v­a­tive in­vest­ing right for you?’and pub­lished in the T&T Guardian on Ju­ly 28, 2025.

Guardian Me­dia Ltd (GML) yes­ter­day re­port­ed an af­ter-tax prof­it of $2.25 mil­lion for the quar­ter end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, a 66 per cent de­cline com­pared to the $6.74 mil­lion the me­dia com­pa­ny earned for the same quar­ter in 2024.