Riyadh and Sha­ran Khan who hailed from Mar­aval and Mon­trose re­spec­tive­ly, opened My Tri­ni Shop in Eng­land’s cap­i­tal last Sat­ur­day.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance has en­tered in­to a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) with the US Cus­toms and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion (CBP) to pro­vide this coun­try’s Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion with the rel­e­vant tech­ni­cal as­sis­tance, train­ing and trans­for­ma­tive ini­tia­tives to fur­ther strength­en the en­ti­ty’s over­all op­er­a­tions and its com­pli­ance ef­forts.

En­er­gy ex­pert Gre­go­ry McGuire has de­scribed plans re­gard­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor as out­lined in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) man­i­festo, as for­ward-look­ing in terms of its fo­cus but felt that key ar­eas for na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment were not ad­dressed.

This did not make her im­mune from the fi­nan­cial land­mines many en­counter and hav­ing been vic­tim to such, she is hop­ing to help oth­ers avoid such mis­takes as the Founder and CEO of The Ac­count­abil­i­ty Play­book, a fi­nan­cial coach­ing and ed­u­ca­tion com­pa­ny.

Rais­ing food pro­duc­tion and low­er­ing the food im­port bill must be one of the main goals of the next gov­ern­ment, ad­vis­es agribusi­ness con­sul­tant Riyadh Mo­hammed.

As the coun­try heads clos­er to­wards the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, the econ­o­my for vot­ers will be at the fore­front; be it the wor­ry­ing crime sit­u­a­tion, in­creas­ing price of food items, the un­cer­tain­ty of jobs, for­eign ex­change chal­lenges and al­so the pay­ing of prop­er­ty tax.

As the gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign reach­es its cli­max, and as po­lit­i­cal par­ties dish out promis­es, the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty of T&T is con­cerned they are not hear­ing enough about par­ties’ plans for the econ­o­my.

With trade be­ing at the fore­front of T&T’s di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion agen­da, the gov­ern­ment has launched Glob­al T&T to fo­cus on op­ti­mis­ing the coun­try’s re­sources and align­ing ex­per­tise and ef­forts un­der a sin­gle, fo­cused agency, to de­liv­er more im­pact­ful re­sults for the coun­try.

It is im­pos­si­ble to as­sess the per­for­mance of Colm Im­bert as this na­tion’s longest con­tin­u­ous­ly serv­ing min­is­ter of fi­nance with­out look­ing at the econ­o­my he in­her­it­ed when he was ap­point­ed by for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Christo­pher Row­ley in Sep­tem­ber 2015.

Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Ltd (Cari­cris) has reaf­firmed ‘high cred­it­wor­thi­ness’ rat­ings for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC).

T&T and Nige­ria are now di­rect­ly con­nect­ed by air, at least on pa­per, af­ter the Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day signed a Bi­lat­er­al Air Ser­vices Agree­ment (BASA) with Nige­ria at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

He was con­sid­ered by many of his peers as larg­er than life and a gi­ant among men, and one who skil­ful­ly and pur­pose­ful­ly shaped T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor while sit­ting on sev­er­al boards mak­ing strate­gic de­ci­sions.