Keisha drags her­self out of bed at 4.30 am be­cause wa­ter is fi­nal­ly run­ning in the taps. She must get some wash­ing done and fill the buck­ets be­fore it sud­den­ly takes its leave again.

There is al­ways a cer­tain lev­el of risk in­volved in busi­ness – risks that may some­times re­sult in loss­es. Own­er of Fly Young Gen­tle­man Ap­par­el, Ephraim Kadeem Ser­rette has been there, but he has re­fused to al­low this set­back from pre­vent­ing him to con­tin­ue to build his brand.

First Cit­i­zens Group Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings has ap­point­ed Sana Rag­bir as act­ing Group CEO, af­ter the sub­stan­tive po­si­tion be­came va­cant at the res­ig­na­tion of for­mer CEO, Ja­son Julien, as at Au­gust 31.

For­mer min­is­ter of en­er­gy Min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine is fore­cast­ing that T&T could emerge as a ma­jor re­gion­al oil and gas pro­cess­ing hub over the next decade—an “in­dus­tri­al utopia” de­pen­dent on the suc­cess­ful de­vel­op­ment of deep­wa­ter re­sources and Venezue­lan gas.

Dig­i­cel Group has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Sal­vador “Sal­va” Hi­er­rezue­lo as its new group chief busi­ness of­fi­cer, ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 1, 2026, as the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider seeks to strength­en its busi­ness so­lu­tions di­vi­sion and ex­pand its en­ter­prise of­fer­ings across the Caribbean and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca.

Guardian Hold­ings Ltd di­rec­tor, Do­minic Ram­per­sad, will take over as the chair­man of the West­moor­ings-based fi­nan­cial ser­vices com­pa­ny on Oc­to­ber 1.

KFC cus­tomers are pay­ing more from yes­ter­day, with Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL) in­creas­ing the prices of nine menu items by be­tween $1 and $4, which a rep­re­sents two to five per cent price change.

Pub­lic ser­vants are in­creas­ing­ly ques­tion­ing how much they will ac­tu­al­ly gain from the 10 per cent salary ad­just­ment grant­ed in De­cem­ber 2025, as high­er Na­tion­al In­sur­ance con­tri­bu­tions, tax pay­ments and a pro­posed 40-60 struc­ture for back­pay are ex­pect­ed to re­duce the set­tle­ment’s val­ue.

Am­mo­nia out­put from the six Trinidad and To­ba­go plants that re­port­ed pro­duc­tion rose 9.7 per cent in the first quar­ter of 2026, re­cov­er­ing part of the vol­ume lost when Nu­trien shut its Point Lisas op­er­a­tions.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance says a new de­tailed cred­it as­sess­ment by Moody’s In­vestors Ser­vice has point­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s size­able fis­cal buffers, im­proved near-term ex­ter­nal po­si­tion and prospects for a re­cov­ery in nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion.

Mi­nor­i­ty share­hold­er ad­vo­cate, Pe­ter Per­me­ll, sub­mit­ted a let­ter to the ed­i­tor yes­ter­day, re­lat­ing to the bid by Agos­ti­ni Ltd to ac­quire 100 per cent of the shares of Pres­tige Hold­ings Ltd (PHL).

As T&T pre­pares to cel­e­brate an­oth­er an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence, few en­tre­pre­neurs em­body the coun­try’s spir­it of per­se­ver­ance and na­tion-build­ing more than Han­nah Janoura.