Un­der the weight of shrink­ing fis­cal space, weak eco­nom­ic growth and mount­ing debt oblig­a­tions, T&T’s pub­lic fi­nances are fac­ing in­creas­ing­ly hard choic­es.

At the close of trad­ing on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change on Tues­day, the TTNGL share price was $8.52, in­di­cat­ing that the val­ue of the pub­licly list­ed, ma­jor­i­ty state-owned/con­trolled in­vest­ment hold­ing com­pa­ny had more than tripled from its price of $2.64 at the start of 2026.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor de­liv­ered on­ly a mar­gin­al im­prove­ment in 2025, as gains in petro­chem­i­cal prices helped off­set a sharp fall in oil prices, but deep­er struc­tur­al chal­lenges con­tin­ue to weigh on the in­dus­try, ac­cord­ing to the Cen­tral Bank’s An­nu­al Eco­nom­ic Sur­vey and in­de­pen­dent en­er­gy ex­perts.

Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd will im­ple­ment a se­ries of fee in­creas­es on se­lect prod­ucts and ser­vices from this Fri­day, May 1, prompt­ing con­cern from busi­ness groups who warn the changes could add pres­sure to al­ready strained en­ter­pris­es.

T&T con­glom­er­ate ANSA McAL Ltd is seek­ing to raise US$15.31 mil­lion through the sale of shares in the Bar­ba­di­an com­pa­ny, Roberts Man­u­fac­tur­ing Ltd, which is prepar­ing to list on the is­land’s stock mar­ket next month.

In a news re­lease on Fri­day, the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny ex­plained, “The trans­ac­tion low­ers Dig­i­cel’s bor­row­ing costs on its ex­ist­ing debt and re­flects im­proved op­er­at­ing per­for­mance, dis­ci­plined fi­nan­cial man­age­ment, and con­tin­ued progress since its re­fi­nanc­ing last year. The repric­ing of its first lien term loan fol­lows a re­cent US$100 mil­lion vol­un­tary pre­pay­ment, un­der­scor­ing Dig­i­cel’s fo­cus on delever­ag­ing and fis­cal dis­ci­pline.”

George Aboud, who died on Sun­day night at the age of 77 af­ter a pe­ri­od of ill­ness, was yes­ter­day de­scribed as a pi­o­neer and gi­ant of T&T’s busi­ness land­scape, leav­ing be­hind a re­tail and prop­er­ty em­pire built over decades.

The Steel­work­ers Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT) is call­ing for ur­gent State in­ter­ven­tion af­ter 48 work­ers at Crys­tal Stream, a bot­tled wa­ter and bev­er­age com­pa­ny lo­cat­ed at the Fred­er­ick Set­tle­ment Eteck Park in Ca­roni, were sent home with­out sev­er­ance fol­low­ing the sud­den clo­sure of the fa­cil­i­ty.

Bus tick­ets and pen­sion grants in Trinidad and To­ba­go are set to go dig­i­tal, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to mod­ernise pub­lic ser­vices and elim­i­nate pa­per-based sys­tems.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West, Stu­art Young, has met with Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says a sig­nif­i­cant boost in nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion is on the hori­zon fol­low­ing the ar­rival of heavy equip­ment at the Point Lisas port on Fri­day.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has raised con­cerns over the “sus­pi­cious” ac­qui­si­tion of Am­plia Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lim­it­ed, con­firm­ing that a for­mal probe will now be launched in­to its op­er­a­tions and pur­chase.