Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert’s state­ment yes­ter­day, which paint­ed a grim pic­ture of this coun­try’s econ­o­my, was noth­ing more than a “cheap dis­trac­tion” to take away from the on­go­ing na­tion­al out­rage caused by the mur­der of An­drea Bharatt, econ­o­mist Mar­la Dukha­ran said.

And if the trend con­tin­ues, we may lose up to $5 bil­lion in rev­enue for fis­cal 2021. This fig­ure does not in­clude the ex­pect­ed $5 bil­lion short­fall al­ready pre­dict­ed for fis­cal 2021.

The en­tire board of the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AATT) has been re­placed one year be­fore their ap­point­ments were of­fi­cial­ly ex­pect­ed to have end­ed.

The elec­tion of US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, that coun­try’s re­turn to the Paris Cli­mate Ac­cord, and the ap­point­ment of a spe­cial en­voy on cli­mate change are all signs that the Unit­ed States is ready to lead the glob­al fight to re­duce car­bon emis­sion and to re­verse the neg­a­tive im­pact of cli­mate change.

Fis­ter­ra En­er­gy SLU has an­nounced a part­ner­ship with Ke­nes­jay Green Lim­it­ed (KGL) to pur­sue a po­ten­tial de­vel­op­ment of KGL’s first ma­jor hy­dro­gen project, New­Gen.

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.

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Lim­it­ed (RFHL) has an­nounced a prof­it at­trib­ut­able to eq­ui­ty hold­ers of the par­ent of $391.1 mil­lion for the quar­ter end­ing De­cem­ber 31, 2020.

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.

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