There has been a great deal of com­men­tary about Moody’s with­draw­al of its rat­ing from the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go. That com­men­tary and con­tro­ver­sy was in­evitable. NGC is not an or­di­nary com­pa­ny. It sits at the cen­tre of the coun­try’s gas econ­o­my, the petro­chem­i­cal es­tate, the LNG chain and, by ex­ten­sion, the fis­cal for­tunes of the coun­try. When a rat­ing agency with­draws from such an in­sti­tu­tion, the mat­ter can­not be treat­ed as a rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tive oc­cur­rence.

For just over two weeks, the Caribbean be­came the back­drop for one of the biggest cre­ator-dri­ven in­ter­net events of 2026.

Gaso­line prices in­creased across most Cari­com mar­kets be­tween Ju­ly 2025 and May 2026, al­though the av­er­age rise across the re­gion was small­er than the in­crease in the glob­al av­er­age price.

Last Thurs­day, May 14, the rat­ing agency Moody’s is­sued a news re­lease, known as a rat­ing ac­tion, an­nounc­ing that it had with­drawn its cred­it rat­ing for the whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC) due to in­suf­fi­cient in­for­ma­tion. Moody’s with­drew NGC’s Ba2 cor­po­rate fam­i­ly rat­ing, ba2 base­line cred­it as­sess­ment and Ba2 se­nior un­se­cured notes.

On 8 April 2026, the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) an­nounced its in­ten­tion to award ap­prox­i­mate­ly $3.4 bil­lion in De­sign-Build-Fi­nance (DBF) hous­ing con­tracts across 11 pack­ages. The pub­lic re­sponse was im­me­di­ate. Ques­tions were raised about the ca­pac­i­ty of some in­tend­ed awardees, the ab­sence of es­tab­lished re­gion­al DBF con­trac­tors, and the ar­gu­ment that no pub­lic mon­ey was in­volved be­cause the con­trac­tors were bring­ing their own fi­nanc­ing.

Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai has stressed that T&T “can­not wait any longer” to mod­ernise its pay­ment sys­tem, as he opened the launch of a pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the long-an­tic­i­pat­ed Draft Pay­ment Sys­tems and Ser­vices Bill and Reg­u­la­tions aimed at strength­en­ing fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty, en­cour­ag­ing in­no­va­tion, and ex­pand­ing dig­i­tal pay­ments.

Every pro­fes­sion—en­gi­neer­ing, med­i­cine, law, ac­count­ing, ar­chi­tec­ture—rests on a shared foun­da­tion of com­pe­tence, dili­gence and ethics. This foun­da­tion is ex­pressed through the stan­dard of care, some­times called the du­ty of care.

Many small busi­ness­es need bet­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion, and large re­tail­ers of­fer many ad­van­tages over hir­ing an ex­pen­sive whole­saler. While SMEs can sell on­line, some items are ide­al­ly suit­ed to su­per­mar­kets, phar­ma­cies, hard­ware stores and oth­er brick-and-mor­tar re­tail­ers. It is more ef­fi­cient to ship to stores and have your prod­uct in a brand-name shop. How­ev­er, you need a strat­e­gy for suc­cess.

Months af­ter one of the coun­try’s news­pa­pers closed its doors, an­oth­er has in­formed staff that it is re­trench­ing em­ploy­ees.

The Caribbean rum in­dus­try is cur­rent­ly nav­i­gat­ing a pe­ri­od of ad­just­ment as pro­duc­ers con­tend with post-pan­dem­ic eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, evolv­ing trade con­di­tions, and un­even de­mand across key in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.

Amid mount­ing ques­tions about op­er­a­tions at var­i­ous Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ties, Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Ltd has signed a new nat­ur­al gas sup­ply con­tract with the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) re­port­ed yes­ter­day there has been a slight de­crease in the in­fla­tion rate in April, but there was an in­crease in the price of food and non-al­co­holic bev­er­ages last month.