Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence, re­mote work and dig­i­tal busi­ness­es have cre­at­ed new op­por­tu­ni­ties for pro­fes­sion­als to earn an in­come from one coun­try while liv­ing in an­oth­er. In­stead of re­lo­cat­ing for work, more peo­ple are re­lo­cat­ing for lifestyle.

As the Ja­maican ex­pe­ri­ence in 2025 with Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa shows, it is im­por­tant to have ef­fec­tive stormwa­ter man­age­ment sys­tems or else busi­ness­es and the econ­o­my can be af­fect­ed.

The push to turn Trinidad’s wet­lands and oth­er nat­ur­al at­trac­tions in­to high-val­ue eco­tourism prod­ucts is fac­ing grow­ing con­cern among tourism op­er­a­tors and en­vi­ron­men­tal­ists: whether some new-style boat tours are putting en­ter­tain­ment ahead of con­ser­va­tion.

At a time when there is grow­ing con­cern about the lack of For­eign Di­rect In­vest­ment (FDI) in the Caribbean, a re­view of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion ap­proach is be­ing ad­vo­cat­ed by the head of a cli­mate fi­nance ad­vi­so­ry firm.

The Court of Ap­peal of Trinidad and To­ba­go has ruled that Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd (RBL) ex­er­cised rea­son­able care in re­la­tion to a mat­ter in­volv­ing its for­mer em­ploy­ee Cur­tis Mathu­ra.

Whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) is sig­nalling ma­jor de­vel­op­ments in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor, with chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen say­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ex­pect­ed to make sig­nif­i­cant an­nounce­ments with­in days.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned First Cit­i­zens Group Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $645.98 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed June 30, 2026, a 10.2 per cent de­cline com­pared to the $719.6 mil­lion the bank­ing group earned for the same pe­ri­od last year.

As T&T con­fronts de­clin­ing nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion and grow­ing con­cerns about the long-term fu­ture of its en­er­gy sec­tor, Caribbean AI Agency chief cre­ative of­fi­cer An­dre Samuel is ad­vo­cat­ing for the de­vel­op­ment of large-scale da­ta cen­tres as a new pil­lar of eco­nom­ic growth.

Ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and Hilton In­ter­na­tion­al Trinidad Lim­it­ed over the fu­ture of the ho­tel are at an ad­vanced stage, with line min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein sig­nalling that an an­nounce­ment on the ho­tel’s fu­ture could come soon.

The ANSA McAL Group de­liv­ered a sharp in­crease in first-half prof­itabil­i­ty, re­port­ing prof­it af­ter tax of $297.6 mil­lion for the six months end­ed June 30, a 44.4 per cent in­crease from $206.1 mil­lion in the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­od last year. The con­glom­er­ate said stronger trad­ing, strate­gic as­set sales and low­er fi­nance costs boost­ed earn­ings.

BP is tak­ing full con­trol of one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s largest, un­de­vel­oped off­shore gas dis­cov­er­ies, a move en­er­gy ex­perts say could ac­cel­er­ate de­vel­op­ment of a project ex­pect­ed to strength­en the coun­try’s long-term gas sup­ply and ex­port ca­pac­i­ty.

The un­cer­tain fu­ture of the Hilton Trinidad & Con­fer­ence Cen­tre is fu­elling anx­i­ety across this coun­try’s tourism sec­tor, with tourism of­fi­cials and econ­o­mists warn­ing that de­lays in reach­ing an agree­ment could hurt busi­ness con­fi­dence, tourism plan­ning and the coun­try’s in­ter­na­tion­al rep­u­ta­tion.