The de­ci­sion by the Eu­ro­pean Union’s Eco­nom­ic and Fi­nan­cial Af­fairs Coun­cil to re­move T&T from the Eu­ro­pean Union’s list of non-co­op­er­a­tive ju­ris­dic­tions for tax pur­pos­es has drawn sup­port from the coun­try’s lead­ing busi­ness groups, which view the move as a sig­nif­i­cant step in restor­ing con­fi­dence in the do­mes­tic econ­o­my.

If T&T does ne­go­ti­ate new en­er­gy con­tracts with Venezuela, both coun­tries would have to get rid of the pre­vi­ous con­tracts that were signed and ne­go­ti­ate new ones that would ben­e­fit Venezuela and not on­ly T&T.

France’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Guil­laume Pierre, has out­lined an am­bi­tious agen­da to ex­pand French in­vest­ment in this coun­try, with en­er­gy, in­fra­struc­ture, lo­gis­tics, and ad­vanced tech­nol­o­gy at the cen­tre of the bi­lat­er­al re­la­tion­ship.

Last week Mon­day, a team from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) con­clud­ed its mis­sion to Port-of-Spain and Scar­bor­ough, dur­ing which they held dis­cus­sions with the T&T au­thor­i­ties on the 2026 Ar­ti­cle IV con­sul­ta­tion .

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal has sig­nalled a re­set in this coun­try’s ap­proach to re­gion­al en­er­gy diplo­ma­cy, ad­mit­ting that pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tions failed to syn­chro­nise T&T’s hy­dro­car­bons strat­e­gy with de­vel­op­ments in Guyana and Suri­name.

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Af­ter years of ef­fort, Trinidad and To­ba­go has been of­fi­cial­ly re­moved from the Eu­ro­pean Union’s list of non-co­op­er­a­tive ju­ris­dic­tions for tax pur­pos­es, fol­low­ing a de­ci­sion by the EU’s Eco­nom­ic and Fi­nan­cial Af­fairs Coun­cil on Tues­day.

On Au­gust 22 2025, at the Tourism In­vest­ment Fo­rum, Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj said the gov­ern­ment plans to es­tab­lish an all-year Car­ni­val City at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port of Spain. Ma­haraj said the aim of the Car­ni­val City was to cre­ate a per­ma­nent cul­tur­al at­trac­tion to sus­tain vis­i­tor in­ter­est through­out the year.

From be­ing con­sid­ered too much for lo­cal stages, to mak­ing waves across the Caribbean through fa­cade de­signs.

On Fri­day, the US Trea­sury De­part­ment Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol (OFAC) an­nounced the is­suance of two gen­er­al li­cences that al­low Shell and BP to pro­ceed with near-bor­der and cross-bor­der de­vel­op­ment the Drag­on and Cocuina gas fields.

Rum punch is a part of Caribbean cul­ture; a con­cept that US-based busi­ness­woman Mari­am Fedai un­der­stands all too well.

De­spite per­sis­tent myths, cre­ators in Trinidad and To­ba­go and across the wider Caribbean can earn di­rect­ly from YouTube. The idea that Caribbean coun­tries are ex­clud­ed from mon­eti­sa­tion is sim­ply in­cor­rect.

With the 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) fast-ap­proach­ing, an un­com­fort­able re­al­i­ty hangs over this high-pro­file mo­ment in re­gion­al pol­i­tics: The bloc — com­pris­ing 14 sov­er­eign mem­ber states — has be­come mired in a clash of for­eign pol­i­cy out­looks.