Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day launched the Na­tion­al Pay­ment and In­no­va­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go, promis­ing that the new com­pa­ny marked an his­toric step in its jour­ney to­ward mod­ern, peo­ple-cen­tred gov­er­nance.

In a bold move to en­hance its dig­i­tal foot­print, ANSA Bank of­fi­cial­ly launched its new mo­bile bank­ing ap­pli­ca­tion, Touch­point, at its Falls at West Mall branch on Thurs­day.  

The Agos­ti­ni Group has re­port­ed a prof­it af­ter tax for the nine-month pe­ri­od end­ed June 30, 2025 of $244.8 mil­lion, which is an in­crease of 3.4 per cent com­pared to the last year’s prof­it af­ter tax for the same pe­ri­od of $236.6m.

In the wake of the re­vo­ca­tion of T&T’s OFAC li­cences to ex­plore gas fields in Venezue­lan wa­ters, Trinidad and To­ba­go NGL (TTNGL) has re­port­ed a loss af­ter tax of $35.8 mil­lion.

An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd has said in­creased per­for­mance in its in­ter­na­tion­al seg­ment has pushed up its rev­enue and prof­its.

On Mon­day night, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar launched a scathing at­tack on an un­named min­is­ter of her ad­min­is­tra­tion, who she ac­cused of cavourt­ing with “the same crooked con­trac­tors and PNM fi­nanciers and cor­rupt fake elites.” This is the speech in which our Prime Min­is­ter threat­ened to “buss your head” of any min­is­ter found guilty of aw­ful crime of talk­ing with one of their fel­low coun­try­men.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) is once again ex­press­ing con­cern about the slow pro­cess­ing of con­tain­ers at Trinidad’s ports.

In the Unit­ed States, a strik­ing 61 per cent of work­ing pro­fes­sion­als ei­ther al­ready have or are ac­tive­ly build­ing a side hus­tle to sup­ple­ment their in­come. This in­sight, re­vealed by a 2023 FlexJobs sur­vey of over 2,200 work­ers, un­der­scores a pro­found shift in work cul­ture and in­come strat­e­gy. Even more re­veal­ing is that near­ly half of these in­di­vid­u­als have con­sid­ered or al­ready left their full-time jobs to pur­sue en­tre­pre­neur­ial ven­tures.

Massy said in a news re­lease, “This lead­er­ship tran­si­tion fol­lows a care­ful­ly struc­tured suc­ces­sion process guid­ed by the group’s suc­cess­ful busi­ness strat­e­gy and long-term am­bi­tions. Mr. McLetchie will suc­ceed Mr. David Af­fon­so, who will re­tire on Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025, af­ter more than three decades of dis­tin­guished ser­vice.”

Glob­al air trav­el de­mand con­tin­ues to out­pace eco­nom­ic growth, and US aero­space com­pa­ny Boe­ing fore­casts the com­mer­cial avi­a­tion sec­tor will need 2,370,000 qual­i­fied per­son­nel to meet that de­mand over the next 20 years.

The North Amer­i­can on­shore mar­ket is the most dy­nam­ic drilling rig mar­ket in the world, with rig rates (es­pe­cial­ly in the USA) quick­ly re­spond­ing to chang­ing mar­ket con­di­tions. De­spite Pres­i­dent Trump’s mantra of “drill ba­by drill,” the rig rate has ac­tu­al­ly fall­en in 2025, dri­ven by mar­ket fun­da­men­tals rather than rhetoric.

Po­lit­i­cal econ­o­mist, Dr Derek Ram­samooj, has warned that T&T’s per­sis­tent for­eign ex­change cri­sis is not the re­sult of re­cent mis­steps, but the cu­mu­la­tive ef­fect of decades of eco­nom­ic mis­man­age­ment and unchecked con­sump­tion pat­terns.