The Gov­ern­ment has wel­comed the as­sess­ment of the T&T econ­o­my from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF), de­scrib­ing the find­ings as a sign of re­newed in­ter­na­tion­al con­fi­dence in the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic di­rec­tion and a val­i­da­tion of its pol­i­cy agen­da.

T&T’s eco­nom­ic out­look is show­ing ten­ta­tive signs of sta­bil­i­ty, but an­a­lysts and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty warn that the coun­try re­mains caught be­tween short-term gains from favourable ex­ter­nal con­di­tions and deep-root­ed struc­tur­al weak­ness­es that con­tin­ue to lim­it sus­tain­able growth.

In the com­pa­ny's unau­dit­ed in­ter­im fi­nan­cial state­ments for the quar­ter end­ed March 31, 2026, the com­pa­ny re­port­ed to­tal com­pre­hen­sive in­come of $10.88 mil­lion, an im­prove­ment over the $9.5 mil­lion record­ed for the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

Bar­ba­dos is deep­en­ing dis­cus­sions with Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) over route de­vel­op­ment and re­gion­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty at a time when the ma­jor­i­ty Trinidad and To­ba­go-owned car­ri­er re­mains un­der pres­sure over prof­itabil­i­ty, op­er­a­tional per­for­mance, and its long-de­layed au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments.

The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny Ltd (Wit­co) has re­port­ed a five per cent in­crease in rev­enue for the first quar­ter of 2026, re­flect­ing con­tin­ued com­mer­cial mo­men­tum de­spite per­sis­tent in­dus­try chal­lenges.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) yes­ter­day pro­ject­ed that the T&T econ­o­my would grow by 0.8 per cent in 2026, and that in­fla­tion is ex­pect­ed to rise tem­porar­i­ly to around 3.1 per cent this year.

AS Bry­den and Sons Hold­ings Ltd has re­port­ed a de­cline in fi­nan­cial per­for­mance for the first quar­ter of 2026, re­flect­ing a chal­leng­ing op­er­at­ing en­vi­ron­ment across sev­er­al of its key Caribbean mar­kets, ac­cord­ing to its unau­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments for the quar­ter end­ed March 31, 2026.

Ja­maica’s gov­ern­ment is of­fer­ing to help To­ba­go strength­en its wa­ter sports safe­ty reg­u­la­tions fol­low­ing the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point on April 8, 2026 af­ter she was struck by jet ski.

The dis­clo­sure on Fri­day by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) of a strate­gic re­align­ment of cred­it rat­ing agency en­gage­ments has left many an­a­lysts with ques­tions con­cern­ing the fu­ture of the whol­ly state-owned com­pa­ny’s in­ter­na­tion­al busi­ness re­la­tion­ships.

Two Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) aca­d­e­mics are warn­ing that as T&T of­fi­cial­ly en­ters the 2026 rainy sea­son, busi­ness­es across the coun­try are once again be­ing re­mind­ed of a grow­ing eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty that cli­mate dis­rup­tion is no longer an oc­ca­sion­al in­con­ve­nience rather it is be­com­ing a per­ma­nent busi­ness risk.

Pres­tige Hold­ings Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Si­mon Hardy is urg­ing grad­uands of the Grow To Lead De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme to guard against a mind­set which pits its com­pa­ny's de­part­ments against each oth­er.

De­spite At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie’s an­nounce­ment in Jan­u­ary that the state would no longer pur­sue cost­ly lit­i­ga­tion re­lat­ed to the col­lapse of CL Fi­nan­cial and its sub­sidiaries, the liq­uida­tor of Cli­co In­vest­ment Bank (CIB) has ini­ti­at­ed an ap­peal over a case seek­ing to hold three for­mer ex­ec­u­tives and board mem­bers ac­count­able for the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion’s col­lapse, al­most two decades ago.