To­ba­go and Bar­ba­dos have joined to­geth­er to pro­mote the di­rect Con­dor flights from Ger­many for the 2025/2026 win­ter sea­son — a move ex­pect­ed to se­cure ear­ly book­ings and boost tourist ar­rivals to both is­lands.

Last week­end, as a re­sult of the Labour Day and Cor­pus Christi hol­i­days, T&T’s work­ers en­joyed an­oth­er four-day hol­i­day week­end for 2025.

Cus­tomers are irate with Trin­ba­go Ex­press T&T Ltd as they have not re­ceived their bar­rels from as far back as No­vem­ber 2024, while some have since sought le­gal ac­tion. 

The Green Fund is an of­ten-over­looked as­set in Trinidad and To­ba­go. It has been qui­et­ly ac­cu­mu­lat­ing a sig­nif­i­cant amount of funds and is rarely ever tapped. At present, the fund con­tains over $11 bil­lion, but on­ly around $326 mil­lion has ever been dis­bursed in 16 years. This da­ta was re­cent­ly re­leased with the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port 2024.

Di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of the na­tion­al econ­o­my, with em­pha­sis on trade and in­vest­ment was among the dis­cus­sions when Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj and oth­er min­istry of­fi­cials met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the High Com­mis­sion for Cana­da and In­dia.

Two key meet­ings were held be­tween gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and en­er­gy sec­tor ex­ec­u­tives on Mon­day.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo yes­ter­day pre­sent­ed the in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to new mem­bers of the board of di­rec­tors of Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL).

When last South African au­thor and in­vestor Vusi Them­bek­wayo came to T&T to share his in­sight on busi­ness strat­e­gy, his pre­sen­ta­tion at the Edge Lead­er­ship Se­ries co­in­cid­ed with the bud­get day on Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024.

In­stant mes­sag­ing and so­cial me­dia plat­forms such as What­sApp, Face­book, Mes­sen­ger and In­sta­gram are sta­ples of mod­ern life and the use of these plat­forms has been the sub­ject of many ju­di­cial de­ci­sions rang­ing from mat­ters of defama­tion to con­tract for­ma­tion. This ar­ti­cle aims to pro­vide an overview of the re­cent Eng­lish High Court de­ci­sion in Jaevee Homes Ltd v Fin­cham (trad­ing as Fin­cham De­mo­li­tion) [2025] EWHC 942 (TCC) (‘Jaevee Homes’) where it was held that a valid con­tract was con­clud­ed by cer­tain What­sApp ex­changes in­stead of by a for­malised sub­con­tract sub­mit­ted lat­er on.

So said Deputy Group CEO of Massy Hold­ings, James McLetchie, who shared his point of view on the tech­nol­o­gy dur­ing the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (Am­cham T&T) 32nd an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing and busi­ness fo­rum.

Scrap­ping the T&T Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA) in sev­en weeks with­out deal­ing with the ma­jor is­sues with­in the pub­lic ser­vice was not the road to go down.

Chair­man of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott), at­tor­ney Shankar Bidaisee is on a mis­sion to en­sure the over­all vi­sion for the en­ti­ty is not on­ly ful­ly achieved but al­so re­dounds to the ben­e­fit of cit­i­zens.