In a move to­ward dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion and fi­nan­cial trans­paren­cy, the T&T Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) has launched its new da­ta hub for fi­nan­cial and mar­ket sta­tis­tics.

Sco­tia­bank T&T has an­nounced a change in its se­nior fi­nance lead­er­ship, with chief ac­coun­tant and comp­trol­ler Sameer Mo­hammed demit­ting of­fice ef­fec­tive Au­gust 31, 2026, to pur­sue oth­er pro­fes­sion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties out­side the bank.

On June 11, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is­sued a state­ment on Face­book, claim­ing that “mas­sive amounts of for­eign cur­ren­cy” was pur­chased by lo­cal busi­ness­es, which was then wire trans­ferred to for­eign ac­counts linked to drug car­tels.

When Trinidad and To­ba­go busi­ness­es speak about ex­pand­ing in­to the Caribbean, the con­ver­sa­tion can some­times be­come con­fined by lan­guage, ge­og­ra­phy and fa­mil­iar­i­ty.

Over the last few years, I have re­ceived an in­creas­ing num­ber of calls from com­pa­nies ask­ing me to train their mar­ket­ing teams.

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Vish­nu Dhan­paul has warned that a pro­ject­ed bud­get deficit of close to $10 bil­lion could con­front the Gov­ern­ment as it pre­pares the 2027 na­tion­al fis­cal pack­age, not­ing that low­er en­er­gy prices and un­der­per­form­ing rev­enue mea­sures may cre­ate sig­nif­i­cant fis­cal chal­lenges in the year ahead.

More young peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go are in­ter­est­ed in start­ing busi­ness­es, but the vast ma­jor­i­ty are un­sure how to prop­er­ly mar­ket their brands for sus­tain­able growth.

Keisha drags her­self out of bed at 4.30 am be­cause wa­ter is fi­nal­ly run­ning in the taps. She must get some wash­ing done and fill the buck­ets be­fore it sud­den­ly takes its leave again.

Of­fi­cial Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) dis­clo­sures from the Min­istry of Labour re­veal that 234 work­ers across T&T lost their jobs due to cor­po­rate re­trench­ment be­tween Jan­u­ary and Ju­ly 2026.

Cra­paud Foot Restau­rant has per­ma­nent­ly closed its doors, bring­ing an end to a ven­ture that sought to of­fer din­ers more than a tra­di­tion­al restau­rant ex­pe­ri­ence.

For­mer min­is­ter of en­er­gy Min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine is fore­cast­ing that T&T could emerge as a ma­jor re­gion­al oil and gas pro­cess­ing hub over the next decade—an “in­dus­tri­al utopia” de­pen­dent on the suc­cess­ful de­vel­op­ment of deep­wa­ter re­sources and Venezue­lan gas.

On Au­gust 31, 2026, Trinidad and To­ba­go marked 64 years of In­de­pen­dence. An­niver­saries in­vite cel­e­bra­tion, but in­de­pen­dence al­so de­mands an ac­count­ing. Af­ter three decades of en­er­gy booms, in­dus­tri­al clo­sures and re­peat­ed promis­es of di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion, where are we mov­ing as a coun­try? Are we pro­gress­ing or re­gress­ing?