On a 90-minute dri­ve from the Ched­di Ja­gan In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to George­town, the cap­i­tal of Guyana, one night last week, three jour­nal­ists from Trinidad and To­ba­go were stunned by the seem­ing­ly end­less stream of trucks head­ing in the op­po­site di­rec­tion. Dozens of trucks car­ry­ing road-build­ing ma­te­r­i­al zoomed past on a road that is in the process of be­ing widened to ac­com­mo­date the ever-in­creas­ing num­ber of vis­i­tors to the coun­try, as well as the new and for­eign-used cars that are be­ing pur­chased dai­ly by Guyanese, many of whom have ex­pe­ri­enced an im­prove­ment in their stan­dard of liv­ing in the last five years.

An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd will hold a spe­cial meet­ing of the share­hold­ers on Au­gust 6, 2025 to elect di­rec­tors of the com­pa­ny.

Dis­cus­sions on cli­mate change, with an em­pha­sis on re­silience and sus­tain­abil­i­ty, will be a part of the agen­da for Car­ifes­ta XV.

Dig­i­cel has moved to ad­dress its cred­it sit­u­a­tion af­ter launch­ing an of­fer­ing of US$1.55 bil­lion ag­gre­gate prin­ci­pal amount of se­nior se­cured notes due 2032 to be co-is­sued by Dig­i­cel In­ter­na­tion­al Fi­nance Lim­it­ed (DI­FL) and DI­FL US LLC.

Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al Naren­dra Ramgu­lam has been ap­point­ed by the Caribbean Tourism Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CTO) as its new Deputy Di­rec­tor, Sus­tain­able Tourism.

Guyana’s Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali says his coun­try is con­cen­trat­ing on build­ing out its own in­fra­struc­ture and he will on­ly be able to make an as­sess­ment on the Petrotrin re­fin­ery when the dis­cus­sion comes up.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has iden­ti­fied wind as a key re­source for util­i­ty-scale pow­er de­vel­op­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Win­ner of the Car­ni­val Large Band of the Year, 2025, The Lost Tribe, has opened Car­ni­val Cam­pus, a pro­gramme aimed at ed­u­cat­ing young­sters in the busi­ness of Car­ni­val and po­ten­tial­ly re­duc­ing for­eign ex­change use with­in the Car­ni­val sec­tor.

The evo­lu­tion of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and its use in the lo­cal mar­ket was brought in­to fo­cus for the ex­port and ship­ping sec­tors at last week’s Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion.

Ja­maican fi­nan­cial pow­er­house, NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG), has agreed to pledge all of the shares of its ma­jor­i­ty-owned sub­sidiary, West­moor­ings-based Guardian Hold­ings Ltd (GHL), as col­lat­er­al for its de­layed US$300 mil­lion bond.

Guyana’s Min­is­ter of Nat­ur­al Re­sources, Vick­ram Bhar­rat, says while the coun­try has not closed the door on part­ner­ing with T&T to re­open the Petrotrin Re­fin­ery in Pointe-a-Pierre, there are fac­tors they will have to con­sid­er be­fore mak­ing a de­ci­sion.

Tran­sit visa poli­cies rep­re­sent a com­plex in­ter­sec­tion of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, im­mi­gra­tion con­trol and in­ter­na­tion­al mo­bil­i­ty.