The bench­mark for world food com­mod­i­ty prices de­clined sig­nif­i­cant­ly in Ju­ly, with ma­jor ce­re­al and veg­etable oil prices record­ing dou­ble-dig­it per­cent­age de­clines, the Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tions (FAO) has re­port­ed.

This as the JMMB Hold­ing Com­pa­ny, SRI and its par­ent JMMB Group Ltd have re­ceived fi­nal reg­u­la­to­ry ap­proval for the pur­chase of 100 per cent of the shares in Ban­co Múlti­ple Bell Bank in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

An­gos­tu­ra chair­man Ter­rence Bharath has urged his team to push in­no­va­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly af­ter the gru­elling years en­dured by the com­pa­ny as a re­sult of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

For the vast ma­jor­i­ty of the past two years, the clos­est ex­pe­ri­ence many had to a din­ner date would be head­ing to a gro­cery with their part­ner and pick­ing up a ready-made meal.

CUSA, LLC, a USA-based ho­tel man­age­ment com­pa­ny—has part­nered with To­ba­go-based own­er­ship, Tow­ers Hos­pi­tal­i­ty Group Ltd and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised fran­chise provider, Choice Ho­tels, to on­board its first In­ter­na­tion­al Ho­tel in To­ba­go, a re­lease stat­ed yes­ter­day.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) and New­Gen En­er­gy Lim­it­ed (New­Gen) have deep­ened their part­ner­ship to co­op­er­ate on the en­abling of a sus­tain­able hy­dro­gen econ­o­my for the en­er­gy sec­tor of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Over the course of last week­end, many peo­ple woke up un­able to ac­cess the In­ter­net and make phone calls be­cause thieves stole hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars worth of fi­bre op­tic ca­bles from a Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices (TSTT) in­stal­la­tion in San Fer­nan­do.

With T&T still bask­ing in the glo­ry of its new-found in­de­pen­dence, Roger Gib­bon was fly­ing the red, white and black high.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank in T&T and Bar­ba­dos, and ANSA Bank have part­nered with The Crop­per Foun­da­tion and the Cap­i­tals Coali­tion to launch the Caribbean Nat­ur­al Cap­i­tal Hub.

Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration has an­nounced that its Co­ho gas fa­cil­i­ty and pipeline will com­mence pre-com­mis­sion­ing and com­mis­sion­ing op­er­a­tions, rep­re­sent­ing the com­pa­ny’s first nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion.

Af­ter a rough two years for restau­rants, bars, and the en­ter­tain­ment sec­tor the past few months have been a breath of fresh air.

As food prices con­tin­ue to sky­rock­et, cou­pled with high in­fla­tion, should T&T adopt sim­i­lar mea­sures as that of Bar­ba­dos which saw the re­cent widen­ing of its VAT-free bas­ket of goods?