An­gos­tu­ra is ex­pect­ing a good Christ­mas in terms of sales and an over­all re­bound in its per­for­mance for the fourth quar­ter of 2024.

The La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Labid­co) of­fi­cial­ly re­ceived the Waste Man­age­ment Plan Re­port for the La Brea In­dus­tri­al Es­tate and the Port of Brighton from The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) yes­ter­day. The re­port was hand­ed over dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny at UTT’s Ago­ra Cam­pus in Ch­agua­nas.

Vice pres­i­dent of the In­ter­na­tion­al In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Se­cu­ri­ty Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Con­sor­tium (ISC2) Caribbean Chap­ter, Ri­car­do Fras­er, is en­cour­ag­ing on­line shop­pers and con­sumers in gen­er­al to be wary of scam calls and oth­er cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty breach­es dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son.

The Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB) is ex­pect­ed to an­nounce to­day that the Bar­ba­di­an can­di­date, Daniel Best, will be the new pres­i­dent of the Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos-based re­gion­al de­vel­op­ment bank.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert yes­ter­day ad­mit­ted that Trinidad and To­ba­go will face a dilem­ma dur­ing the en­er­gy tran­si­tion.

Agos­ti­ni’s Ltd yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $323.4 mil­lion in its fi­nan­cial year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024, 11.3 per cent less than the $364.6 mil­lion the group earned in its 2023 fi­nan­cial year.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) says Caribbean coun­tries will re­ceive US$18.4 bil­lion in re­mit­tances, with a two per cent growth, sim­i­lar to that ob­served in 2023.

For the fi­nan­cial pe­ri­od from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024, the Dig­i­cel Group in­vest­ed US$7.4 mil­lion in en­vi­ron­men­tal, so­cial and gov­er­nance (ESG) projects in T&T.

For the fast pay­ments sys­tem pro­posed by the Min­istry of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion and the Cen­tral Bank to be suc­cess­ful, it must be se­cure, af­ford­able and in­ter-op­er­a­ble with all the play­ers in the mar­ket, says Ald­wyn Wayne, CEO and founder of the Wi­Pay Group, the re­gion’s largest pay­ment com­pa­ny.

Sabi­na Gomez, the re­cent­ly re­tired at the Min­istry of Labour, is ad­vis­ing com­pa­nies and busi­ness­es that if they fail to fol­low due process in In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions, it can be very cost­ly for their busi­ness­es.

All phish­ing links that have been re­port­ed to the TT Cy­ber Se­cu­ri­ty In­ci­dent Re­sponse Team (TTC­SIRT) have been suc­cess­ful­ly brought down, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds said yes­ter­day.

Al­most ex­act­ly a year af­ter clos­ing its doors at its Mar­aval lo­ca­tion, Blue Star Din­er which falls un­der the Trot­ters Group, re­opened on Thurs­day, this time at the Fes­ti­val Plaza in Movi­etowne, Port-of-Spain.