Over $2 mil­lion has been paid to share­hold­ers of So­lis since it was list­ed on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change.

The on­go­ing scarci­ty of for­eign ex­change in T&T has be­come a source of sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic and po­lit­i­cal de­bate, but from a prag­mat­ic busi­ness per­spec­tive, the sit­u­a­tion is a dif­fi­cult and painful re­al­i­ty.

All eyes are on the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion as it pre­pares to un­veil its high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed 2026 na­tion­al bud­get—its first in a decade.

While the world is more un­cer­tain than ever, the Caribbean is be­ing urged to be de­ci­sive in its ac­tions.

As an­tic­i­pa­tion builds ahead of the na­tion­al bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion ex­pect­ed in ear­ly Oc­to­ber, stake­hold­ers in the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor, par­tic­u­lar­ly those from the poul­try and live­stock in­dus­tries, are call­ing for deep­er in­vest­ment, up­dat­ed in­cen­tives and a long-over­due shift in ap­proach to how farm­ing is sup­port­ed.

The Cen­tral Bank’s 2024 Fi­nan­cial Sta­bil­i­ty Re­port of­fers a cau­tion­ary as­sess­ment of the lo­cal fi­nan­cial sec­tor, warn­ing that the sys­tem re­mains in­creas­ing­ly ex­posed to sov­er­eign risk.  

Cari­com mem­ber states could save over US$1.3 bil­lion a year by re­duc­ing their heavy re­liance on US im­ports, ac­cord­ing to the Cari­com Pri­vate Sec­tor Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CP­SO).

The UTC Glob­al Bal­anced Fund Lim­it­ed (UTC GBFL), a sub­sidiary of the T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (TTUTC), has ex­pand­ed op­er­a­tions in­to Do­mini­ca, mark­ing a ma­jor step in its re­gion­al ex­pan­sion strat­e­gy across the East­ern Caribbean.

The T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has reaf­firmed its sup­port for re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion and the free move­ment of labour, fol­low­ing high-lev­el talks be­tween the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and the pri­vate sec­tor group.

When DHL moved in­to its new mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar fa­cil­i­ty in San Juan this Ju­ly, it wasn’t just a change of ad­dress. It was a de­c­la­ra­tion.

World Co­conut Day was cel­e­brat­ed in ear­ly Sep­tem­ber and agri­cul­ture and busi­ness con­sul­tant, Riyadh Mo­hammed, be­lieves that this in­dus­try has an im­por­tant role to play in T&T’s eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment.

Crude oil pro­duc­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go has ex­pe­ri­enced a steady de­cline since its peak in the late 1970s, when the coun­try pro­duced al­most 230,000 bar­rels of oil per day. There was a brief pe­ri­od of sub­stan­tial in­crease from 2002 to 2006, but since then, pro­duc­tion has fall­en sharply from 143,000 bar­rels per day to just over 50,000 bar­rels per day in 2025 (av­er­age Jan-Mar).