Be­low-av­er­age labour pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, in­creas­ing debt ra­tios fol­low­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and lim­it­ed for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment have se­vere­ly im­pact­ed growth in the Caribbean.

Sev­er­al T&T en­er­gy sec­tor ser­vice com­pa­nies will be seek­ing to fur­ther show­case their ex­per­tise in­ter­na­tion­al at the Off­shore Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence 2026.

The Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean are eco­nom­i­cal­ly and so­cial­ly vul­ner­a­ble due to small­ness in terms of ge­og­ra­phy and pop­u­la­tions, cli­mate risks, lim­it­ed di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and on­go­ing de­vel­op­ments in in­ter­na­tion­al trade. De­spite these short­com­ings,Caribbean SIDS can­not be ig­nored as they con­trol vast ma­rine re­sources, are at the fore­front of glob­al ef­forts to com­bat cli­mate change, en­hance bio­di­ver­si­ty and con­tribute to­wards sus­tain­abil­i­ty in de­vel­oped as well as de­vel­op­ing economies. It is there­fore im­per­a­tive that Caribbean SIDS re­ceive the glob­al at­ten­tion and sup­port re­quired to fu­el their growth.

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.

There are kinder­gartens clos­ing in Uruguay and Chile. Busi­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go are pay­ing more for pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty. A pirogue is cross­ing the Gulf of Paria from Venezuela with ques­tion­able car­go. A pen­sion­er in Trinidad is anx­ious about his NIS ben­e­fits.

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

Econ­o­mist Ronald Ramkissoon has said this coun­try’s reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies should raise ques­tions about whether re­cent in­creas­es in bank­ing fees are jus­ti­fied.

True’s Cre­ationz is just a lit­tle over a year old, and al­ready its own­er is get­ting her chil­dren in­volved in build­ing what she sees as their foun­da­tion for gen­er­a­tional wealth.

BP and the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MoU) for the ex­plo­ration of nat­ur­al gas in the Lo­ran off­shore area, in­ter­na­tion­al news agen­cies re­port­ed yes­ter­day.

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.

The Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion (FTC) has opened the pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion phase for the pro­posed merg­er be­tween Agos­ti­ni Ltd and Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd, mark­ing the first for­mal step in a long-de­layed com­pe­ti­tion re­view that is now back on track af­ter months of reg­u­la­to­ry lim­bo.

As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment cel­e­brat­ed its one-year an­niver­sary on Tues­day, busi­ness lead­ers in south Trinidad re­main op­ti­mistic about the per­for­mance of the Gov­ern­ment.