The Cari­com Pri­vate Sec­tor Or­ga­ni­za­tion (CP­SO), and sev­en oth­er pri­vate sec­tor or­gan­i­sa­tions through­out the re­gion, has is­sued a re­minder about the ben­e­fits of the Cari­com Sin­gle Mar­ket and Econ­o­my (CSME).

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go says it will, in ear­ly Jan­u­ary, pro­vide de­tails on how the gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ex­tend the use of the for­mer Coat of Arms un­til Jan­u­ary 2, 2031, will af­fect lo­cal cur­ren­cy.

Just over a week af­ter launch­ing an Affin­i­ty plan with sav­ings of up to 24 per cent for ac­tive and re­tired mem­bers of the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU), ma­jor­i­ty State-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), has part­nered with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) to launch a sim­i­lar plan for PSA mem­bers.

Fazir Khan, pres­i­dent of the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for the Con­struc­tion In­dus­try (JCC), has strong­ly re­ject­ed any sug­ges­tion that T&T could af­ford to dis­count or jeop­ar­dise its re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com, warn­ing that such a stance would un­der­mine the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic re­silience. Khan told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the ev­i­dence is un­equiv­o­cal that Cari­com is not mere­ly an im­por­tant trad­ing part­ner, but an in­dis­pens­able one, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the non-en­er­gy and con­struc­tion sec­tors, as the coun­try seeks to di­ver­si­fy away from hy­dro­car­bons. Of­fi­cial trade sta­tis­tics show that Cari­com is Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sec­ond-largest ex­port mar­ket, ac­count­ing for rough­ly ten per cent of to­tal glob­al ex­ports and an even larg­er pro­por­tion of non-en­er­gy ex­ports.

For­mer MP Rush­ton Paray says while he un­der­stands the frus­ta­tion that has dri­ven the call by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce for a mar­ket-dri­ven ex­change rate, he has warned that the low­er class will take the longest and most sig­nif­i­cant hit if such a mea­sure is in­tro­duced.

Dr In­shan Meahjohn has ex­it­ed his post as chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of iGovTT af­ter his con­tract was not re­newed.Meahjohn, who served at the iGovTT of­fice in Port of Spain from De­cem­ber 2022 to No­vem­ber 2025, was re­port­ed­ly es­cort­ed from the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s of­fices on his fi­nal day.

The Star­lite Group has apol­o­gised to cus­tomers for the re­duced avail­abil­i­ty of choco­lates and con­fec­tionery this Christ­mas, point­ing to on­go­ing im­port re­stric­tions that con­tin­ue to dis­rupt re­tail sup­ply chains across T&T.

Term Fi­nance, through its brand Stan­dard Cred­it, has part­nered with so­ca artiste Mi­cal Te­ja as the ti­tle spon­sor for his event, Mas The Ex­pe­ri­ence, sig­nalling a deep­er push in­to sup­port­ing Car­ni­val and the wider cre­ative econ­o­my.

Fol­low­ing is an opin­ion on the on­go­ing US-Venezuela ten­sions, as it re­lates to T&T’s stance, pub­lished in yes­ter­day’s edi­tion of the Ja­maica Ob­serv­er.

One day af­ter the Prime Min­is­ter was crit­i­cal of the state of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty, the im­por­tance of com­mu­ni­ty, lo­cal­ly, re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly was re­flect­ed up­on by busi­ness and re­li­gious lead­ers, who urged Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ac­knowl­edge Cari­com’s im­por­tance to T&T on Sun­day.

The con­flict be­tween the US and Venezuela may not on­ly erupt in­to a tra­di­tion­al war with sol­diers and ri­fles, but there could be cy­ber­war which can im­pact T&T’s busi­ness­es and the na­tion­al econ­o­my.

When Nicole Kalloo dis­cov­ered she was be­ing over­charged by the elec­tri­cians hired to build-out her bak­ery, she did not sim­ply suc­cumb to the frus­tra­tion of the mo­ment or set­tle for a fi­nan­cial loss.