The Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean are eco­nom­i­cal­ly and so­cial­ly vul­ner­a­ble due to small­ness in terms of ge­og­ra­phy and pop­u­la­tions, cli­mate risks, lim­it­ed di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and on­go­ing de­vel­op­ments in in­ter­na­tion­al trade. De­spite these short­com­ings,Caribbean SIDS can­not be ig­nored as they con­trol vast ma­rine re­sources, are at the fore­front of glob­al ef­forts to com­bat cli­mate change, en­hance bio­di­ver­si­ty and con­tribute to­wards sus­tain­abil­i­ty in de­vel­oped as well as de­vel­op­ing economies. It is there­fore im­per­a­tive that Caribbean SIDS re­ceive the glob­al at­ten­tion and sup­port re­quired to fu­el their growth.

Of­ten over­looked as a sup­port func­tion, fa­cil­i­ties man­age­ment qui­et­ly dri­ves pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, re­silience and fi­nan­cial ef­fi­cien­cy across or­gan­i­sa­tions.

There are kinder­gartens clos­ing in Uruguay and Chile. Busi­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go are pay­ing more for pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty. A pirogue is cross­ing the Gulf of Paria from Venezuela with ques­tion­able car­go. A pen­sion­er in Trinidad is anx­ious about his NIS ben­e­fits.

The ver­sion peo­ple miss runs for months be­fore any of that ex­ists. Held to­geth­er by group chats, dis­con­nect­ed spread­sheets, and a few peo­ple who car­ry the en­tire op­er­a­tion in their heads be­cause no­body built any­thing bet­ter.

Econ­o­mist Ronald Ramkissoon has said this coun­try’s reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies should raise ques­tions about whether re­cent in­creas­es in bank­ing fees are jus­ti­fied.

The Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion (FTC) has opened the pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion phase for the pro­posed merg­er be­tween Agos­ti­ni Ltd and Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd, mark­ing the first for­mal step in a long-de­layed com­pe­ti­tion re­view that is now back on track af­ter months of reg­u­la­to­ry lim­bo.

Be­low-av­er­age labour pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, in­creas­ing debt ra­tios fol­low­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and lim­it­ed for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment have se­vere­ly im­pact­ed growth in the Caribbean.

Over the past year, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress ad­min­is­tra­tion has tak­en some steps to trans­late its 2025 man­i­festo promis­es in­to con­crete ac­tions for the food and agri­cul­ture sec­tor. The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries has pri­ori­tised train­ing and ca­pac­i­ty build­ing, launch­ing the Na­tion­al Agri­cul­tur­al Train­ing Ini­tia­tive (NATI) in ear­ly 2026 to train rough­ly 20,000 farm­ers and agri-en­tre­pre­neurs across 35 cours­es, with a strong fo­cus on mod­ern, cli­mate-re­silient tech­niques and agro-pro­cess­ing. This aligns with the man­i­festo’s pledge to mod­ernise farm­ing through pre­ci­sion agri­cul­ture, dig­i­tal tools, and ded­i­cat­ed train­ing cen­tres, and marks one of the most clear­ly rolled-out man­i­fes­ta­tions of the UNC’s agri-mod­erni­sa­tion agen­da.

As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment cel­e­brat­ed its one-year an­niver­sary on Tues­day, busi­ness lead­ers in south Trinidad re­main op­ti­mistic about the per­for­mance of the Gov­ern­ment.

BP and the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MoU) for the ex­plo­ration of nat­ur­al gas in the Lo­ran off­shore area, in­ter­na­tion­al news agen­cies re­port­ed yes­ter­day.

True’s Cre­ationz is just a lit­tle over a year old, and al­ready its own­er is get­ting her chil­dren in­volved in build­ing what she sees as their foun­da­tion for gen­er­a­tional wealth.

Sev­er­al T&T en­er­gy sec­tor ser­vice com­pa­nies will be seek­ing to fur­ther show­case their ex­per­tise in­ter­na­tion­al at the Off­shore Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence 2026.