The Cen­tral Bank says the sup­ply-side stim­u­lus to both food and core in­fla­tion in T&T is an­tic­i­pat­ed to per­sist to the end of 2022.

The bank kept the short-term rate on its overnight col­lat­er­alised fi­nanc­ing to com­mer­cial banks, the Re­po rate, at 3.50 per cent fol­low­ing its Mon­e­tary Pol­i­cy Com­mit­tee (MPC) meet­ings in De­cem­ber 2021 and March 2022.

The sign­ing of an agree­ment to form a glob­al al­liance of spe­cial eco­nom­ic zones must be about cre­at­ing jobs and putting mon­ey in­to the pock­ets of or­di­nary cit­i­zens says Ja­maica's Min­is­ter of In­dus­try, In­vest­ment and Com­merce, Aubyn Hill.

TSTT has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over the de­ci­sion of for­mer work­ers to threat­en le­gal ac­tion over tax forms.

The glob­al food im­port bill is on course to hit a new record of US$1.8 tril­lion this year, but high­er prices and trans­port costs rather than vol­umes ac­count for the bulk of the ex­pect­ed in­crease, ac­cord­ing to a new re­port re­leased by the Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tions (FAO).

Chi­na’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go Fang Qiu has con­firmed two Chi­nese com­pa­nies will be­come ten­ants at the Phoenix Park In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

On Thurs­day, the Bank put out a le­gal no­tice con­firm­ing the deal was off. The deal was ini­tial­ly an­nounced in March last year.

High Court Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad says a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of East­ern Cred­it Union’s “prac­tices, poli­cies and modus operan­di” may be need­ed.

Over the last week, the coun­try has been forced to waste much time de­bat­ing the lit­er­al name-call­ing by some of T&T’s lead­ing politi­cians.

Nearshoring could add an an­nu­al $78 bil­lion in ex­ports of goods and ser­vices in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean in the near and medi­um term, with op­por­tu­ni­ties for quick wins in the au­to in­dus­try, tex­tiles, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, and re­new­able en­er­gy, among oth­ers, ac­cord­ing to the In­ter­Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB).

One Au­gust day four years ago the skies cleared, al­low­ing one of these au­thors to pick pump­kins in Moru­ga, on land farmed by a neigh­bour’s friend who was not har­vest­ing his crop that year. In the pro­ceed­ing days, trop­i­cal show­ers had in­ter­mit­tent­ly swept in to turn the farm­land plots to bog. Lug­ging heavy sacks of pump­kins, knee-deep in mud is not an ex­pe­ri­ence one quick­ly for­gets.

When Mario’s Pizze­ria opened its doors in June 1972 it was the first piz­za par­lour in this coun­try.