To­mor­row when the Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert presents his 2021 fis­cal pack­age he will do so in the con­text of low­er rev­enues, high non-dis­cre­tionary ex­pen­di­ture and lim­it­ed fis­cal space for bor­row­ing.

State-owned Caribbean Air­lines has re­ceived ap­proval from the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Trans­porta­tion to fly the Port of Spain/Hous­ton route.

Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire says the coun­try has had a mi­cro­eco­nom­ic im­bal­ance for the last few years and what is need­ed is an over­all eco­nom­ic so­lu­tion.

Over the last two weeks a num­ber of things oc­curred in the down­stream petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor and by ex­ten­sion the econ­o­my of T&T.

Ready, will­ing, able – and very hap­py that Gov­ern­ment has giv­en an Oc­to­ber dead­line for the clo­sure of the Guaracara re­fin­ery pur­chase deal with Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed.

Four of the coun­try’s largest cin­e­mas—Movi­eTowne, Caribbean Cin­e­mas, Cin­e­maOne Lim­it­ed and Es­tate 101 Ltd have said they re­main con­cerned about the fu­ture of 1500 em­ploy­ees most of whom have been fur­loughed/ tem­porar­i­ly laid off as a re­sult of the clo­sure of the in­dus­try due to COVID-19.

Caribbean Gas Chem­i­cal Lim­it­ed (CG­CL) has loaded its first car­go of methanol as it starts ex­port of the com­mod­i­ty.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go is with­out a sin­gle Deputy Gov­er­nor months af­ter Dr San­dra Sookram’s term came to an end—even though the law calls for up to two.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go says the “strong pol­i­cy ac­tions” it took in March to deal with the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic are still work­ing their way through this coun­try’s fi­nan­cial sys­tem.

Caribbean Air­lines ap­pears to be fly­ing in­to some strong head­winds as the air­line warns of tur­bu­lence and pro­pos­es tem­po­rary salary re­duc­tions for all staff be­gin­ning next month to try and stay in the air.

This moves comes af­ter a de­ci­sion tak­en by the Club's mem­bers at their an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing held in Ju­ly.

Dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion can help Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) re­gion re­cov­er more quick­ly from the COVID‑19 cri­sis, ac­cord­ing to the Latin Amer­i­can Eco­nom­ic Out­look (LEO) 2020: Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion for Build­ing Back Bet­ter.