Con­ve­nience Pay Tech­nolo­gies has re­ceived pro­vi­sion­al ap­proval from the Cen­tral Bank to is­sue elec­tron­ic mon­ey (e-mon­ey), mark­ing an­oth­er step in the coun­try’s push to­wards dig­i­tal pay­ments and fi­nan­cial tech­nol­o­gy in­no­va­tion.

Rat­tan Boodram has been sep­a­rat­ed from his po­si­tion as vice pres­i­dent of tech­nol­o­gy from TSTT, trig­ger­ing a reshuf­fle at the ex­ec­u­tive lev­el as the state-con­trolled telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider con­tin­ues its trans­for­ma­tion dri­ve.

With the Foot­ball World Cup kick­ing off next week, fever for the world’s most pop­u­lar game is grip­ping T&T and the en­er­gy is spilling far be­yond the field.

For decades, Ch­aguara­mas has mar­ket­ed it­self as the Caribbean’s pre­mier yacht re­pair and main­te­nance hub. Its skilled crafts­men, ma­rine ser­vice com­pa­nies, and lo­ca­tion out­side the hur­ri­cane belt have long been its sell­ing points. Yet in­dus­try play­ers ar­gue that one ob­sta­cle con­sis­tent­ly un­der­mines those ad­van­tages, an out­dat­ed and cum­ber­some ves­sel clear­ance process.

T&T’s decades-long com­mit­ment to Cari­com as a ve­hi­cle for eco­nom­ic growth is be­ing sharply re­assessed by econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James, who says the coun­try’s in­te­gra­tion strat­e­gy—built on ex­pand­ing re­gion­al mar­kets for man­u­fac­tur­ing—has not de­liv­ered the ex­pect­ed re­sults and now re­quires ur­gent re­think­ing.

The board of Massy Hold­ings Ltd an­nounced yes­ter­day the ap­point­ment of Ja­maican fi­nan­cial ex­ec­u­tive, Patrick Hyl­ton, as chair­man des­ig­nate of the group, ef­fec­tive June 1, 2026.

T&T’s suc­cess­ful elec­tion to a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil is be­ing hailed as both a diplo­mat­ic break­through and a po­ten­tial eco­nom­ic turn­ing point, with Gov­ern­ment and Am­cham T&T point­ing to new op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­vest­ment, trade and in­ter­na­tion­al in­flu­ence.

De­spite a no­tice­able slow­down in in­fla­tion in April 2026, food in­fla­tion con­tin­ued to rise.

The Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (Nid­co) has been or­dered to pay over $26 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to a con­tract­ing com­pa­ny, whose op­er­a­tions were dis­rupt­ed af­ter some of its land was ac­quired for the con­struc­tion of the San Fer­nan­do to Point Fortin High­way. 

De­ci­sions! De­ci­sions! How do I make them? The core func­tion of a man­ag­er or en­tre­pre­neur is to make de­ci­sions. Some choic­es feel like kick­ing the tin can down the road. It may make sense, as some de­ci­sions are bet­ter made to­mor­row. Some, how­ev­er, are just keep­ing the firm from be­ing more com­pet­i­tive. While it shows up on your to-do list or cal­en­dar, it’s just a pend­ing mat­ter.

In a May 15 state­ment in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs, Sad­dam Ho­sein, set out to ad­dress the con­cerns raised in the pub­lic, most­ly by Guardian Me­dia, about the op­er­a­tions of this coun­try’s most re­cent­ly es­tab­lished state en­ter­prise, Land­mark TT.

For­mer Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor and min­is­ter of fi­nance, Win­ston Dook­er­an, who is an econ­o­mist, is warn­ing that halfway through 2026, com­mod­i­ty-based ex­port economies like T&T re­main in a “dan­ger­ous” po­si­tion be­cause of the over­whelm­ing chal­lenges posed by the re­gion and the in­ter­na­tion­al or­der.