Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says al­though the coun­try’s debt lev­el has in­deed in­creased, the Gov­ern­ment took the ap­pro­pri­ate de­ci­sions, in the short and long-term in­ter­est of the pop­u­la­tion.

Cin­e­maONE is hope­ful it can end a fi­nan­cial­ly try­ing year with block­buster suc­cess giv­en re­cent strides made in T&T’s vac­ci­na­tion ef­forts.

Stu­dents of the St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) can look for­ward to more in­tern­ship and train­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties in the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor.

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) has grant­ed ap­proval for its whol­ly owned sub­sidiary, Re­pub­lic Evolve Ltd’s reg­is­tra­tion as a long-term in­sur­ance com­pa­ny to con­duct the life in­sur­ance class of busi­ness on­ly.

Lead­ing UK port op­er­a­tor, Glob­al En­er­gy Group (GEG) has en­tered in­to an agree­ment with Swiss-based in­te­grat­ed en­er­gy com­pa­ny Pro­man to de­vel­op a re­new­able pow­er to methanol plant, util­is­ing lo­cal sources of cap­tured car­bon diox­ide (CO2) to be lo­cat­ed at the Nigg Oil Ter­mi­nal in the High­lands of Scot­land.

In a ma­jor move that could have im­pli­ca­tions for T&T, Aus­tralian out­fits Wood­side Pe­tro­le­um Ltd (“Wood­side”) and BHP Group (“BHP”) have en­tered in­to a merg­er that will com­bine their re­spec­tive oil and gas port­fo­lios by an all-stock merg­er to cre­ate a glob­al top 10 in­de­pen­dent en­er­gy com­pa­ny by pro­duc­tion.

The JMMB Group Ltd has record­ed a net prof­it of J$1.93 bil­lion–up 148 per cent and earn­ings per share of J$0.88 for the three months end­ed June 30, 2021.

For­mer na­tion­al crick­eter Ra­jen­dra Man­galie, 55, has in­stead di­ver­si­fied his op­er­a­tions in­to the dry goods busi­ness.

TRINRE In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has in­tro­duced in­cen­tives for mem­bers of staff who are vac­ci­nat­ed or make ef­forts to get vac­ci­nat­ed, and is call­ing on Cor­po­rate Trinidad and To­ba­go to con­sid­er a sim­i­lar ap­proach to get vac­cine num­bers up.

Re­gion­al con­glom­er­ate ANSA McAL will be mak­ing a “very mea­sured in­vest­ment” in­to the cryp­tocur­ren­cy space, the group’s Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer An­tho­ny N Sab­ga III has re­vealed.

ANSA McAL’s chair­man A Nor­man Sab­ga says he is pleased that the group was able to de­liv­er a strong per­for­mance for the first half of 2021 de­spite the “cur­rent dy­nam­ic op­er­at­ing en­vi­ron­ment.”

There has been much hand-wring­ing and to some ex­tent, Mon­day morn­ing quar­ter­back­ing about the lack of an Olympic medal from our ath­letes at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Tokyo games.