The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) have re­leased man­i­festos which men­tioned small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es (SME) and while busi­ness cham­bers across the coun­try are un­hap­py with the state of this sec­tor, they are hop­ing that whichev­er par­ty wins the next gen­er­al elec­tion, it takes the im­por­tance of SMEs in­to con­sid­er­a­tion.

Next week, T&T heads to the polls to de­cide who forms the gov­ern­ment for the next five years.

Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL) has an­nounced a de­lay in the pub­li­ca­tion of its 2024 An­nu­al Re­port. In a no­tice on the T&T Stock Ex­change, its share­hold­er PHL said this de­lay is due to un­fore­seen cir­cum­stances.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) has an­nounced that eco­nom­ic growth in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean has re­turned to more sta­ble his­tor­i­cal av­er­ages since the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The Min­istry of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion is promis­ing that cit­i­zens will soon have more op­por­tu­ni­ties to stay con­nect­ed with the ad­di­tion of 36 new TTWiFi lo­ca­tions across the coun­try.

A for­eign ex­change ini­tia­tive for small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es (SMEs) by the Min­istry of Fi­nance has been met with op­ti­mism from busi­ness groups and stake­hold­ers.

At the grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny for the bank’s “Pow­er­ful Women in Busi­ness Pro­gramme” which took place on Wednes­day evening at JMMB’s bank, Ch­agua­nas, grad­u­ates hailed the in­ter-re­gion­al con­nec­tions that were made dur­ing the ex­er­cise.

ANSA Pack­ag­ing Lim­it­ed has an­nounced it has of­fi­cial­ly achieved Food Safe­ty Sys­tem Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion (FSSC) 22000 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, a glob­al­ly recog­nised stan­dard for food safe­ty man­age­ment sys­tems.

A ro­bust and en­abling en­vi­ron­ment is need­ed for leg­isla­tive and fi­nan­cial frame­works for green in­vest­ment to work co­he­sive­ly.

The re­vo­ca­tion of the li­cences to joint­ly ex­plore gas fields in Venezuela will on­ly lead to greater eco­nom­ic hard­ship in T&T, warns econ­o­mist Pro­fes­sor Patrick Wat­son.

A team from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) has vis­it­ed T&T to con­tin­ue dis­cus­sions on this coun­try’s adop­tion of a fast pay­ments so­lu­tion along the lines of In­dia’s Uni­fied Pay­ments In­ter­face (UPI).

Yara Trinidad Lim­it­ed and Trinidad Ni­tro­gen Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Trin­gen) have an­nounced the suc­cess­ful com­mis­sion­ing of three so­lar elec­tric ve­hi­cle (SEV) charg­ing sta­tions at their site.