A Ba­hamas-based sub­sidiary of CL Fi­nan­cial, seek­ing to re­cov­er over US$122 mil­lion in dam­ages from the es­tate of for­mer CL Fi­nan­cial (CLF) ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Lawrence Duprey over a failed land de­vel­op­ment in Flori­da, has lost its bid for ex­clu­sive ac­cess to le­gal costs that the es­tate was award­ed for a dis­con­tin­ued law­suit against Duprey and oth­er for­mer CLF ex­ec­u­tives over their al­leged roles in the con­glom­er­ate's col­lapse.

Caribbean busi­ness­es are be­ing urged to ac­cept low­er prof­its on es­sen­tial goods as part of a re­gion­al pact aimed at shield­ing fam­i­lies from the ris­ing cost of liv­ing.

The de­ci­sion by ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) to stop serv­ing Blue Wa­ters bot­tled wa­ter on its flights has prompt­ed con­cerns from an­a­lysts and busi­ness lead­ers that the is­sue now ex­tends be­yond a sin­gle com­pa­ny and could af­fect in­vestor con­fi­dence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

ANSA McAL Lim­it­ed has re­leased its Sus­tain­abil­i­ty & ESG Da­ta Dis­clo­sure Re­port 2025 along with its first IFRS S1 Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Dis­clo­sure Stan­dard Com­pli­ance Progress Re­port, mark­ing what the com­pa­ny says is a sig­nif­i­cant step in strength­en­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port­ing across the re­gion.

The Cen­tral Bank has is­sued a clar­i­fi­ca­tion re­gard­ing the coun­try’s nat­ur­al gas al­lo­ca­tion and its di­rect im­pact on for­eign ex­change re­serves.

LJ Williams Ltd says it ex­pects im­proved per­for­mance in fis­cal 2027, af­ter a chal­leng­ing year in which group sales and prof­its de­clined, large­ly due to weak­er re­sults at its sub­sidiary, The Home Store.

Work­ers at Nestlé Trinidad and To­ba­go have been ad­vised to pre­pare for every pos­si­ble out­come, as un­cer­tain­ty con­tin­ues over the fu­ture of the com­pa­ny’s dairy and juices busi­ness.

Pan-Amer­i­can Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny of T&T Ltd (PAL­ICTT) has ex­pand­ed its agency net­work with the ad­di­tion of the Dale McLeod Agency, a move the com­pa­ny says will strength­en its pres­ence in the lo­cal in­sur­ance mar­ket and sup­port its agent-led growth strat­e­gy.

The dis­pute be­tween the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and Methanex over the in­def­i­nite idling of the Ti­tan methanol plant has re­newed de­bate over whether nat­ur­al gas prices from state-owned com­pa­nies should re­main con­fi­den­tial even af­ter gas sup­ply con­tract ne­go­ti­a­tions have end­ed.

When pub­lic sec­tor com­pa­nies and in­sti­tu­tions fail, they not on­ly af­fect economies but so­ci­eties in gen­er­al.

The Caribbean has a very pow­er­ful cul­tur­al prod­uct, which is not be­ing ful­ly mon­e­tised to the re­gion’s ben­e­fit. Reg­gae mu­sic is in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned, while Trinidad’s Car­ni­val has been ex­port­ed around the world.

In­creased sup­pli­er costs, NIS con­tri­bu­tions as well as for­eign ex­change con­straints took a ma­jor bite in Pres­tige Hold­ings prof­its for the six-month pe­ri­od end­ed May 31, 2026.