NCB Fi­nan­cial Group Ltd (NCBFG) yes­ter­day an­nounced that it was ex­pand­ing its board of di­rec­tors with the ap­point­ment of T&T na­tion­al, Do­minic Ram­per­sad, ef­fec­tive De­cem­ber 4.

Pres­i­dent of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­ber (CR­BC), Vivek Char­ran, is hope­ful that the de­par­ture of Navin Dook­er­an from the Ex­im­bank, is a sig­nal of pos­i­tive change in ad­min­is­tra­tion and pol­i­cy at the in­sti­tu­tion.

En­deav­our Hold­ings Ltd (EHL) yes­ter­day re­port­ed a drop in prof­its and rev­enues for the six-month pe­ri­od end­ed Oc­to­ber 31, 2025.

Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh has urged Caribbean na­tions and their Latin Amer­i­can part­ners to em­brace strate­gic south-to-south co­op­er­a­tion as a trans­for­ma­tive path­way for re­silience, com­pet­i­tive­ness and in­clu­sive growth. He made the call while ad­dress­ing a Caribbean De­vel­op­ment sem­i­nar host­ed by the Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held yes­ter­day at the Hilton, where the min­is­ter un­der­scored the ur­gency of mov­ing be­yond sym­bol­ic ges­tures to­ward pur­pose­ful, re­source-ori­ent­ed col­lab­o­ra­tion.

Whether you’re but­ter­ring a baguette or slic­ing in­to a crois­sant, most peo­ple may not give much thought to whether their favourite bread or pas­try has an in­ter­na­tion­al seal of ap­proval.

Eight months in­to the term of a new ad­min­is­tra­tion and on the cusp of a new cal­en­dar year, T&T’s eco­nom­ic nar­ra­tive is de­fined by three con­verg­ing themes: limp growth, for­eign ex­change con­straints and a wa­ver­ing en­er­gy out­look.

From 2026, strate­gies to em­bold­en many of T&T’s top in­dus­tries through the use of Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) will be stud­ied at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus.

Navin Dook­er­an, CEO of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ex­im­Bank), was yes­ter­day ter­mi­nat­ed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, Guardian Me­dia has learned. No of­fi­cial rea­son for his sud­den de­par­ture was pro­vid­ed.

ANSA McAL, and one of its sub­sidiaries, have emerged vic­to­ri­ous in a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar le­gal bat­tle with the Ger­man ship­ping gi­ant Ha­pag-Lloyd AG over a ship­ment of chem­i­cals which spilled af­ter leav­ing T&T.

Flow Trinidad has no­ti­fied its cus­tomers that it will be up­dat­ing its ca­ble tele­vi­sion line­up in light of re­cent­ly is­sued guide­lines by Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (TATT).

Di­ver­si­fied, pub­licly list­ed Agos­ti­ni said yes­ter­day that the com­pa­ny does not dom­i­nate the pro­cure­ment of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals for the pub­lic sec­tor or the lo­cal phar­ma­cy sec­tor.

Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for the Con­struc­tion In­dus­try (JCC) pres­i­dent Fazir Khan has cau­tioned against fram­ing the con­struc­tion sec­tor’s cur­rent slow­down as a melt­down trig­gered by any sin­gle com­pa­ny, in­sist­ing the pres­sures now sur­fac­ing are the re­sult of long-stand­ing struc­tur­al prob­lems for which in­dus­try lead­ers should have an­tic­i­pat­ed and planned.