Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has stat­ed that he will re­sist calls to float the TT dol­lar, de­spite sug­ges­tions from econ­o­mists to do so.

Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL) yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $15.74 mil­lion for the three months end­ed Feb­ru­ary 28, 2025, a 60.48 per cent in­creased com­pared to the $9.80 mil­lion the restau­rant chain earned for the same pe­ri­od in the pri­or year.

In an at­tempt to re­sus­ci­tate the dream of a San­dals ho­tel in To­ba­go, Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says he will be meet­ing with the ho­tel com­pa­ny’s ex­ec­u­tive chair­man next Mon­day.

Busi­ness groups yes­ter­day ex­pressed con­cern that the base­line 10 per cent tar­iff im­posed on T&T by the US will neg­a­tive­ly im­pact this coun­try and even wors­en the for­eign ex­change sit­u­a­tion.

Last week, we shared in­for­ma­tion on bench­mark prices in three key nat­ur­al gas mar­kets in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and some of the fac­tors which im­pact the price of gas in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and the po­ten­tial for im­pacts in T&T.

The cost of fund­ing sev­en of the main promis­es/com­mit­ments made by Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, the po­lit­i­cal leader of the op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), dur­ing the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign could be more than $18 bil­lion in ad­di­tion­al ex­pen­di­ture or rev­enue fore­gone, ac­cord­ing to Busi­ness Guardian cal­cu­la­tions, based on pub­licly avail­able in­for­ma­tion and ver­i­fied by se­nior econ­o­mists, who in­sist­ed on anonymi­ty be­cause of their sen­si­tive po­si­tions.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says Trinidad and To­ba­go is years away from in­creas­ing wa­ter rates.

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s “ag­gres­sive” na­tion­al­ist eco­nom­ic poli­cies and a sub­se­quent trade war be­tween the US and Chi­na will neg­a­tive­ly im­pact T&T and the rest of the Caribbean.

If the State is to re­vis­it and fund the San­dals mega-project in To­ba­go, the ho­tel must pay prop­er rates of tax and rates of pay to its staff.

It has been about two years since the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act, 2015 was of­fi­cial­ly gazetted.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says he will ad­vo­cate for Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Cari­com re­gion amid the con­cerns about new tar­iffs that were an­nounced by the Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) Mon­day says it is pro­vid­ing US$62 mil­lion to Suri­name af­ter its ex­ec­u­tive board ap­proved the ninth and fi­nal re­view un­der the Ex­tend­ed Fund Fa­cil­i­ty (EFF) arrange­ment with the Dutch-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) coun­try.