Stake­hold­ers in the To­ba­go tourism sec­tor have to get out of the idea of re­ceiv­ing ‘free mon­ey’ from the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) and while the THA will sup­port them there must al­so be ac­count­abil­i­ty for the use of pub­lic funds.

Ex­cel­lent Stores is re­port­ing a surge in their on­line sales as they sur­mise peo­ple are shop­ping as a way to pick them­selves up from the dif­fi­cult year caused by the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The Su­per­mar­kets As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) says it will not be mak­ing su­per­mar­kets safe zones nor sub­scrib­ing to that con­cept. The As­so­ci­a­tion was re­spond­ing to a joint press re­lease by AM­CHAM, Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce and the En­er­gy Cham­ber which called on the gov­ern­ment to make pub­lic spaces and busi­ness­es safe zones.

The Min­istry of Trade has tak­en ac­tion it hopes will pro­tect con­sumers from a planned hike in ce­ment prices by Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL).

In a no­tice to stake­hold­ers and in­dus­try part­ners from Sales dis­tri­b­u­tion seg­ment man­ag­er Resh­ma Gool­jar-Singh, dis­trib­u­tors were ad­vised of TCL im­pend­ing price ad­just­ment of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 15% which will take ef­fect on De­cem­ber 20, 2021.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young met with Se­nior Ex­ec­u­tives of both BHP and EOG Re­sources dur­ing his trip to Hous­ton, USA and it has been re­vealed that EOG’s Sol­da­do well in its joint ven­ture with state-owned Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um has been de­layed to next year and that BHP is con­sid­er­ing de­vel­op­ing its small­er dis­cov­er­ies in the deep wa­ter in Le Clerc and Vic­to­ria.

The Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try has hit back at con­cerns raised by new­ly elect­ed Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Far­ley Au­gus­tine about the de­vel­op­ment of a ho­tel prop­er­ty at Rocky Point.

What a re­pu­di­a­tion of Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine and To­ba­go born Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) is in the process of re­draft­ing rules  for its trans­ac­tions.

The suc­cess of the lo­cal op­er­a­tors of the Chuck E. Cheese fran­chise, has en­cour­aged the glob­al fam­i­ly en­ter­tain­ment brand to ex­pand in­to Guyana and Suri­name.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Fair Trade Com­mis­sion is look­ing close­ly at prices post­ed on store shelves in an at­tempt to curb price goug­ing for med­i­cine.

The new­ly-elect­ed Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Far­ley Chavez Au­gus­tine has warned To­bag­o­ni­ans that they face a chal­leng­ing fi­nan­cial start to their term in of­fice, claim­ing that the for­mer PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion left the in­com­ing lead­er­ship a bed of thorns to lie on.