Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­tries (TTC­SI) Di­anne Joseph is con­fi­dent that T&T’s next Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young will im­ple­ment poli­cies that will as­sist the de­vel­op­ment of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty,

With the Cin­e­maONE Group re­port­ing a net loss of $7.4 mil­lion for fis­cal year 2024, com­pa­ny chair­man Bri­an Jahra and his wife, co-own­er and CEO, In­grid Jahra say 2025 rev­enue line is al­ready 20 per cent, which is a pos­i­tive tra­jec­to­ry.

Nis­san’s op­er­a­tions in the Trinidad and To­ba­go mar­ket are not like­ly to be af­fect­ed in the near fu­ture, de­spite an an­nounce­ment that the Japan­ese au­tomak­er is set to merge with an­oth­er Japan­ese au­to­mo­tive gi­ant Hon­da.

Ja­maican con­glom­er­ate, GraceKennedy, yes­ter­day an­nounced the re­tire­ment of its group CEO, Don We­h­by, ef­fec­tive Feb­ru­ary 14, 2025, which co­in­cides with the com­pa­ny’s 103rd an­niver­sary.

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance, and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU) will be meet­ing vir­tu­al­ly with the man­age­ment of the su­per­mar­ket chain Tru Valu to­day at 10:00 am.

NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG) an­nounced on Mon­day that the share pur­chase agree­ment for the sale of its 100 per cent stake in NCB (Cay­man) has beeen ter­mi­nat­ed.

Prop­er­ty tax for busi­ness­es is not on the ta­ble at this time, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try Paula Gopee-Scoon.

Visa has not­ed an in­crease in con­tact­less and dig­i­tal trans­ac­tions in T&T dur­ing the Black Fri­day and the Christ­mas hol­i­day shop­ping sea­son last year. 

While the Uni­fied Pay­ments In­ter­face (UPI) sys­tem has been “mas­sive­ly suc­cess­ful” in In­dia and will be ben­e­fi­cial to T&T, there are oth­er types of dig­i­tal pay­ment sys­tems that T&T can use as the coun­try catch­es up with the rest of the world in adopt­ing non-cash sys­tems.

The Car­ni­val Cat­walk red car­pet pre­mier event show­cased the tal­ent, her­itage and in­no­va­tion of the best of T&T’s cre­ative in­dus­try at Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts on Wednes­day night. The show, pro­duced by Jerome ‘Rome’ Pre­cil­la of Itz Rome En­ter­tain­ment, Rod­ney Seemu­n­gal of SGP Stu­dios and Gi­an Fran­co of Pavil­ion En­ter­tain­ment, cel­e­brat­ed the in­ter­sec­tion of cul­ture and cre­ativ­i­ty. Spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests from gov­ern­ment, the pri­vate sec­tor and the cre­ative in­dus­tries, ar­riv­ing at the venue got to strut the red car­pet greet­ed by Kaiokah Moko-Jumbies be­fore en­ter­ing the Lord Kitch­en­er Au­di­to­ri­um which was a melt­ing pot of Hol­ly­wood meets Car­ni­val. Pho­tos by Roger Ja­cob

The Cen­tral Bank is aim­ing to be at the fore­front of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion push in 2025.

The de­bate be­tween ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and hu­man in­tel­li­gence is not about choos­ing one over the oth­er; it’s about find­ing the bal­ance that max­i­mizes the strengths of both.