En­tre­pre­neur­ship is of­ten pre­sent­ed as a race. Start the busi­ness, build the brand, at­tract cus­tomers, make mon­ey and scale, prefer­ably be­fore every­one on so­cial me­dia be­gins ask­ing why you are not yet a mil­lion­aire.

While Trinidad and To­ba­go’s elec­tion to a seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC) will bring the coun­try pos­i­tive ex­po­sure, it may not nec­es­sar­i­ly lead to im­me­di­ate greater for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment (FDI) in­to the coun­try.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s liq­ue­fied nat­ur­al gas (LNG) ex­ports to re­gion­al mar­kets edged high­er in 2025, reach­ing 10.7 bil­lion cu­bic me­tres (bcm). The in­crease fol­lowed two con­sec­u­tive years of low­er ex­port vol­umes and re­flect­ed a mod­est re­cov­ery in do­mes­tic LNG pro­duc­tion, even as com­pe­ti­tion in the glob­al mar­ket con­tin­ued to in­ten­si­fy.

Lit­er­a­cy has an ex­pand­ed mean­ing, and it de­ter­mines how suc­cess­ful you can be as an en­tre­pre­neur. Fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy is about man­ag­ing your knowl­edge of mon­ey mat­ters. It is not what you own or earn. It is about look­ing at your fi­nan­cial com­mit­ments and re­sources and op­ti­mis­ing them.

I could not be the on­ly per­son in Trinidad and To­ba­go who finds the le­gal mat­ter brought by the Gov­ern­ment against suc­cess­ful busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve, to be more cap­ti­vat­ing than a Net­flix se­ries.

Bird tourists can spend as much as US$850 a day on pack­ages in Trinidad and To­ba­go, sev­er­al times the ex­pen­di­ture cit­ed for a reg­u­lar vis­i­tor, putting the coun­try in a

As more peo­ple en­ter the culi­nary en­tre­pre­neur­ial world, there has been an in­crease in the de­mand for rental of test and com­mer­cial kitchens that pro­vide more work­ing space and are equipped with in­dus­tri­al-grade equip­ment.

Wi­Pay chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Ald­wyn Wayne has re­ject­ed al­le­ga­tions that his com­pa­ny mis­han­dled Gov­ern­ment funds or was re­spon­si­ble for the re­port­ed fail­ure of the on­line fixed penal­ty no­tice pay­ment sys­tem, in­sist­ing that Wi­Pay nei­ther re­ceives nor holds pub­lic mon­ey.

For decades, the Caribbean has re­lied on tourism, en­er­gy, fi­nan­cial ser­vices and mi­gra­tion as path­ways to eco­nom­ic op­por­tu­ni­ty.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has con­firmed that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) is not us­ing elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­at­ed by the coun­try’s largest so­lar farm, Brechin Cas­tle So­lar Ltd, leav­ing pow­er be­ing pro­duced but not de­liv­ered to the na­tion­al grid.

Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Ka­ma Ma­haraj said yes­ter­day Gov­ern­ment has signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MOU) to restart a long-idled steel mill, a move he says will gen­er­ate an es­ti­mat­ed US$1.5 bil­lion an­nu­al­ly, while cre­at­ing a mar­ket for every tonne of scrap iron and dis­card­ed tyres pro­duced in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

While so much dis­cus­sion on ar­ti­ci­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) in re­cent weeks, Gre­go­ry Fer­nan­dez is hop­ing to al­so bring forth the idea of op­por­tu­ni­ty to the fore.