Mil­lions of dol­lars in pub­lic funds could be saved through the adop­tion of dig­i­tal con­struc­tion strate­gies.

In to­day’s hy­per-com­pet­i­tive busi­ness land­scape, com­pa­nies glob­al­ly and in T&T, are re­al­is­ing a sim­ple but pow­er­ful truth: fo­cussing on cus­tomer re­ten­tion of­ten yields far greater re­turns than pour­ing re­sources in­to ac­quir­ing new cus­tomers.

For­mer Plan­ning Min­is­ter dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment, Dr Bhoe Tewarie, is hop­ing T&T can man­age its re­la­tion­ship with Venezuela, giv­en the po­ten­tial for trade and busi­ness ties in the fu­ture.

The Fourth In­ter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Fi­nanc­ing for De­vel­op­ment (FFD4) from June 30 to Ju­ly 3, in Spain, ar­rives at a mo­ment of reck­on­ing.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go said yes­ter­day it did not stop the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al from au­dit­ing the ac­counts of the coun­try’s fi­nan­cial reg­u­la­tor.

Sco­tia­bank Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day re­port­ed prof­it af­ter tax of $340 mil­lion for the six months end­ed April 30 2025.  

Pri­vate sec­tor health­care provider, Med­corp, and leg­endary bats­man Bri­an Lara yes­ter­day said the name of The Bri­an Lara Can­cer Treat­ment Cen­tre has not changed.

That fact was dis­closed by the Cen­tral Bank on Fri­day, in re­sponse to a re­quest for in­for­ma­tion from the fi­nan­cial reg­u­la­tor and the Gov­ern­ment’s banker to com­ments by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last Thurs­day. She said that for a sec­ond year the Cen­tral Bank did not co­op­er­ate with the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s re­quest for in­for­ma­tion.

Just about a week af­ter Shell con­firmed it had tak­en a Fi­nal In­vest­ment De­ci­sion (FID) on the Aphrodite project, Sub­sea7 has an­nounced that the com­pa­ny has been award­ed a size­able con­tract by Shell for the un­de­vel­oped nat­ur­al gas field in the East Coast Ma­rine Area (EC­MA) in T&T.

The fall­out fol­low­ing the fi­as­co that turned out to be the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val has left many with­in the en­ter­tain­ment fra­ter­ni­ty en­gag­ing in some re­flec­tion.

Ja­maica-born Michael Lee-Chin’s per­son­al in­vest­ment com­pa­nies are still deep in dis­cus­sions with bond­hold­ers, even as new dis­clo­sures re­veal that the icon­ic chair­man of the NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG), the north Caribbean is­land’s largest fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion, could lose con­trol of the com­pa­ny, that he ac­quired a ma­jor­i­ty stake of in 2002.

Two months on from “Lib­er­a­tion Day”, and it is ev­i­dent that the volatil­i­ty and un­cer­tain­ty in mar­kets since the turn of the year is more like­ly to con­tin­ue than not. The month of April brought world­wide fear and pan­ic as the US im­posed sig­nif­i­cant tar­iffs on im­ports from coun­tries around the world, notwith­stand­ing the ex­is­tence of trade agree­ments with those coun­tries. Chi­na, Cana­da and Mex­i­co, were amongst the most sig­nif­i­cant­ly af­fect­ed, with Chi­na in par­tic­u­lar re­spond­ing by im­pos­ing re­tal­ia­to­ry tar­iffs.