The Caribbean Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (CHTA) is mount­ing a re­gion­al fight against new com­mis­sion prac­tices pro­posed by Book­ing.com, warn­ing that the pol­i­cy could cost Caribbean ho­tels mil­lions of US dol­lars an­nu­al­ly and in­crease pres­sure on an al­ready high-cost tourism sec­tor.

Visa has in­tro­duced a new iden­ti­ty ver­i­fi­ca­tion sys­tem fol­low­ing first-ever de­ploy­ment of its Tap to Con­firm and Tap to Ac­ti­vate tech­nol­o­gy for is­su­ing banks.

At­lantic LNG yes­ter­day an­nounced that the com­pa­ny had se­lect­ed a new CEO, Don­nie Brown, who re­places Jean An­dre Ce­lestain, whose ap­point­ment was ef­fec­tive Oc­to­ber 1, 2024.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing with Price­wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers Ad­vi­so­ry Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (PwC Trinidad and To­ba­go) with the aim of strength­en­ing aware­ness of the TTSE’s Small and Medi­um En­ter­prise (SME) Mar­ket.

Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains one of the Caribbean’s most avi­a­tion-de­pen­dent tourism mar­kets, with al­most half of all vis­i­tors en­ter­ing the coun­try through con­nect­ing flights rather than di­rect ser­vices, even as re­gion­al trav­el growth slows sharply and com­pe­ti­tion for vis­i­tors in­ten­si­fies.

This was re­vealed by ANSA McAL Group CEO An­tho­ny Sab­ga III at the re­lease of the group’s fi­nan­cial re­sults for the three months end­ed March 31, 2026, at Samaan Es­tate in St Clair.

Here in T&T, the case be­fore the ICJ, is seen as a Guyanese sov­er­eign­ty mat­ter and a Cari­com diplo­mat­ic ques­tion. That fram­ing has al­ways been in­com­plete and there is more at stake for T&T than we might re­alise.

T&T re­mains one of the Caribbean’s strongest re­gion­al tourism mar­kets de­spite eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, ris­ing crime con­cerns and for­eign ex­change short­ages, a top tourism of­fi­cial from An­tigua and Bar­bu­da said, while warn­ing that es­ca­lat­ing fu­el prices could soon place pres­sure on re­gion­al air­fares and air­lift.

An em­pha­sis on con­sol­i­da­tion while im­prov­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty is be­ing urged ahead of the gov­ern­ment’s Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view.

The news that Nu­trien is ac­tive­ly look­ing to sell its Trinidad as­sets and that Pro­man is mak­ing sig­nif­i­cant new in­vest­ments in the Mid­dle East have re­fo­cused at­ten­tion on the fu­ture of the down­stream petro­chem­i­cal in­dus­try in Trinidad & To­ba­go.

Some­thing im­por­tant hap­pened in Trinidad’s con­struc­tion in­dus­try this April and it was a long time com­ing. The Trinidad and To­ba­go Con­trac­tors As­so­ci­a­tion (TTCA) host­ed its very first Women in Con­struc­tion Lead­er­ship and Net­work­ing Event, mark­ing a wa­ter­shed mo­ment not just for the As­so­ci­a­tion, but for the in­dus­try in Trinidad and To­ba­go as a whole. It was an af­ter­noon of can­did con­ver­sa­tion, shared ex­pe­ri­ence and the kind of hon­est reck­on­ing that sets the stage for re­al, last­ing change.

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