Just a cou­ple weeks ago, most peo­ple, if asked to lo­cate the Strait of Hor­muz on a map, would not know where to place the mark. The out­break of hos­til­i­ties be­tween the US and Is­rael on one hand, and Iran on the oth­er, has brought this nar­row pas­sage be­tween Iran and the Ara­bi­an Penin­su­la in­to sharp fo­cus. Yet most peo­ple don’t have a full ap­pre­ci­a­tion of how this sit­u­a­tion will im­pact their dai­ly lives.

In a strate­gic move to so­lid­i­fy the fu­ture of the na­tion’s nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries held a meet­ing with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from EOG Re­sources.

The ANSA McAL Group has seen in­creased growth in the US and Guyanese mar­kets in the 2025 fi­nan­cial year.

The Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism is fac­ing mount­ing pres­sure over its fail­ure to ap­point a board to the Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion (FTC), with a for­mal pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter now threat­en­ing ju­di­cial re­view.

As glob­al geopo­lit­i­cal shifts con­tin­ue to re­shape in­ter­na­tion­al trade, T&T’s man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor is ag­gres­sive­ly piv­ot­ing to­ward its clos­est neigh­bours.

Lo­cal in­sur­ance com­pa­ny, Cli­co, record­ed a $567.66 mil­lion in­crease in its af­ter-tax prof­its for the fi­nan­cial year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, which was main­ly as a re­sult of $340.59 mil­lion in in­come the in­sur­er re­ceived from the set­tle­ment of the Cli­co En­er­gy mat­ter.

On Feb­ru­ary 3rd, 2026, it was an­nounced that the overn­ments of Trinidad and To­ba­go (‘T&T’) and the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates signed an Agree­ment for the Pro­mo­tion and Rec­i­p­ro­cal Pro­tec­tion of In­vest­ment. Though wel­come news, it is wor­thy to bear in mind that this agree­ment is but one of many which af­ford var­i­ous ben­e­fits to T&T in­vestors. In this mul­ti-part se­ries, we dis­cuss the var­i­ous in­vest­ment pro­tec­tion agree­ments (al­so com­mon­ly re­ferred to as bi­lat­er­al in­vest­ment treaties) to which T&T is par­ty and pro­vide a high-lev­el overview of some of the key pro­vi­sions of such agree­ments, in­clud­ing the rights and ben­e­fits avail­able to T&T in­vestors.

Japan­ese Am­bas­sador to T&T Aki­ma Umeza­wa says while T&T and Japan have long en­joyed ben­e­fi­cial trade re­la­tions, re­cent geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions can open more op­por­tu­ni­ties for lo­cal ex­ports.

oDe­liv­er’s busi­ness, which be­gan five years ago, is al­ready gen­er­at­ing prof­it from its core op­er­a­tions, even as it push­es ag­gres­sive­ly in­to faster, on-de­mand de­liv­ery, a bal­anc­ing act its lead­er­ship in­sists is de­lib­er­ate, not ac­ci­den­tal.

The lim­it­ed scope of cov­er­age for many who face ad­verse im­pacts due to cli­mate change was put in­to per­spec­tive at the Re­port­ing Cli­mate Im­pacts in a Cli­mate Jus­tice Con­text Work­shop at the Mar­riott ho­tel last Wednes­day.

In a call to dis­man­tle the ar­cha­ic ar­chi­tec­tures of cor­po­rate pow­er, Ja­son Cum­mings, vice-pres­i­dent fi­nanc­ing/head of Caribbean fi­nan­cial ad­vi­so­ry ser­vices and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor at RBC Mer­chant Bank (Caribbean) Ltd, opened a di­a­logue on the fu­ture of lead­er­ship dur­ing an In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day 2026 fo­rum at the Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness on Fri­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s net of­fi­cial for­eign re­serves to­talled US$5.580 bil­lion at the end of Feb­ru­ary 2026, a de­crease of US$135 mil­lion or 2.36 per cent from Jan­u­ary 2026, when the re­serves amount­ed to US$5.715 bil­lion, ac­cord­ing to da­ta from the Cen­tral Bank web­site.