This is how En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan has de­scribed the chal­lenge cur­rent­ly fac­ing this coun­try when it comes to re­bal­anc­ing our en­er­gy mix in the face of glob­al cli­mate change con­cerns.

You now need an ex­emp­tion from the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty if you want to be able to leave this coun­try on a Caribbean Air­lines plane.

The peo­ple of To­ba­go have spo­ken and they have re­pu­di­at­ed Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine’s Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM). The par­ty on Mon­day night lost four more seats in the as­sem­bly than it start­ed off with, and nar­row­ly won the pop­u­lar vote. There is now a sense that the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty (PDP) is on the march to se­cur­ing con­trol of To­ba­go.

Strength­en­ing of the reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work to as­sure greater pol­i­cy­hold­er pro­tec­tion,mod­erni­sa­tion the leg­is­la­tion to ef­fec­tive­ly su­per­vise the in­sur­ance in­dus­try and fa­cil­i­ta­tion of the Cen­tral Bank in its pro­mo­tion of ef­fi­cient, fair and trans­par­ent in­sur­ance mar­kets and fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty of the sec­tor are among the key ob­jec­tives of the New In­sur­ance Act which were de­tailed in a we­bi­nar host­ed by the Cen­tral Bank yes­ter­day.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan has said T&T’s down­stream in­dus­try has not been for­got­ten or ne­glect­ed as it con­tin­ues to be a sig­nif­i­cant earn­er of for­eign ex­change and has a crit­i­cal part to play in the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic re­cov­ery.

This year will be a chal­leng­ing one for gas pro­duc­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan has said.

A deep wa­ter bid round is ex­pect­ed to take place be­fore the end of this year, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan has said.

How could Tra­cy David­son Ce­les­tine, the woman who could very well be the next Chief Sec­re­tary not un­der­stand that as a sec­re­tary your ac­count­abil­i­ty does not end when you en­sure funds are pro­vid­ed for a project? How can she not see that as sec­re­tary you are ul­ti­mate­ly re­spon­si­ble for what hap­pens in your di­vi­sion in­clud­ing failed projects and wastage of tax­pay­ers funds?

If you’re “charis­mat­ic, re­sults-dri­ven” and have ex­pe­ri­ence in com­pet­i­tive busi­ness en­vi­ron­ments, then this call may be for you.

The up­grad­ed sys­tem now be­ing utilised by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion will im­prove this coun­try’s ease of do­ing busi­ness, the Min­istry of Fi­nance has stat­ed.

100 Be­low is a new mega de­part­ment chain in the Caribbean who’s mis­sion state­ment is “De­liv­er­ing great every­day cus­tomer val­ue in our mega fa­cil­i­ties by of­fer­ing of an ever chang­ing as­sort­ment of qual­i­ty, fash­ion­able, brand name and de­sign­er mer­chan­dise at prices gen­er­al­ly $100 and be­low ”

Last week was not a good one for the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) as it re­ceived the an­nounce­ment that its cred­it wor­thi­ness had been down­grad­ed by the rat­ing agency Cari­Cris and found it­self be­ing ac­cused by the chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cers of the ma­jor down­stream com­pa­nies of hav­ing a con­flict of in­ter­est and threat­en­ing 30,000 jobs.