The Wall­starr em­pire re­cent­ly launched its plat­form in Trinidad & To­ba­go and it is al­ready a tremen­dous suc­cess. The gi­ant e-com­merce store was found­ed in Feb­ru­ary by a group of young, am­bi­tious men from south Trinidad. The group’s on­ly de­sire was to pro­vide a much need­ed ser­vice to the Caribbean by cre­at­ing an in­cred­i­ble shop­ping ex­pe­ri­ence built on low prices, qual­i­ty items and A-class cus­tomer ser­vice.

Nestlé’s mar­ket head for the An­glo-Dutch Caribbean re­gion Jo­sué De La Maza has ad­mit­ted the com­pa­ny did not get it right the first time it tried to in­tro­duce pa­per straws to ac­com­pa­ny their drinks lo­cal­ly, but they are com­mit­ted to get­ting it done prop­er­ly for the sake of the en­vi­ron­ment.

In a coun­try where sev­er­al busi­ness­es still do not al­low for LINX trans­ac­tions, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert raised a few eye­brows re­cent­ly when he gave a tar­get for Trinidad and To­ba­go to be­come a cash­less so­ci­ety.

A com­bi­na­tion of a fall in the sale of new cars, in­creased de­mand for used parts and a change in its busi­ness strat­e­gy has re­sult­ed in Massy Mo­tors now go­ing in­to the re­tail sale of ve­hi­cle parts.

Roy­al Bank of Cana­da (RBC) has for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year been named the Caribbean’s Best Pri­vate Bank by Glob­al Fi­nance Mag­a­zine.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young yes­ter­day an­nounced the launch of the 2021 T&T Deep Wa­ter Com­pet­i­tive Bid Round.

The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic con­tin­ues to damp­en pro­duc­tion of goods and ser­vices, the Cen­tral Bank has stat­ed in its Mon­e­tary Pol­i­cy Re­port for No­vem­ber 2021.

The La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (LABID­CO) has do­nat­ed a 3kW (kilo­watt) so­lar pho­to­volta­ic (PV) sys­tem to La Brea res­i­dent, Cindy Williams—pro­vid­ing her with a re­li­able sup­ply of elec­tric­i­ty for the first time in 15 years.

The three-gen­er­a­tion fam­i­ly com­pa­ny Mon­tano’s Choco­late has opened a fac­to­ry in Arou­ca, which is ex­pect­ed to in­crease its pro­duc­tion ca­pac­i­ty by 460 per cent.

Jean-Pierre Du Coudray, Massy Mo­tors’ Se­nior Vice-Pres­i­dent at the of­fi­cial launch yes­ter­day said the re­tail part of the busi­ness is “every­thing au­to­mo­tive.”

Caribbean Air­lines has been rat­ed a Four-Star Ma­jor Air­line by its pas­sen­gers, in the APEX Of­fi­cial Air­line Rat­ings for 2022.

With soar­ing wheat prices, sig­nalling more food in­fla­tion world-wide, Ian Mitchell Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer at the Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) says the com­pa­ny may have no choice but to re­view prices if cur­rent trends con­tin­ue.