Caribbean Air­lines has added a “Call us Now” but­ton to its mo­bile app to al­low cus­tomers to make free calls to its Reser­va­tions Sales and Ser­vice Call Cen­tre.

Two out of three house­holds in T&T had their fi­nances ad­verse­ly af­fect­ed as a re­sult of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Hav­ing failed to ac­quire Sco­tia­bank’s as­sets in Guyana, state-owned First Cit­i­zens now says it is open to ap­ply­ing for bank­ing li­cens­es in both Guyana and Ja­maica and open­ing brick and mor­tar banks there, as it tries to grow be­yond T&T.

In April 2018, Chi­nese multi­na­tion­al tech­nol­o­gy cor­po­ra­tion Huawei pre­dict­ed that the glob­al dig­i­tal econ­o­my would be worth US$23 tril­lion by the year 2025.

First Cit­i­zens will not be able to lend any of its $1.2 bil­lion fa­cil­i­ty from the IDB In­vest to the gov­ern­ment, as­sures its Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Karen Dar­basie.

In a post-pan­dem­ic era with more tourists want­i­ng unique “off the beat­en path of­fer­ings,” ex­pe­ri­en­tial tourism, there­fore, re­quires not a re­set­ting, but rather a reimag­in­ing of the en­tire tourism ex­pe­ri­ence, Ja­maican Tourism Min­is­ter Ed­mund Bartlett is ad­vis­ing.

Ja­maica is quick­ly ap­proach­ing its 60th an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence, how­ev­er, the last few steps of its road to its Di­a­mond year has seen the coun­try nav­i­gate one of the most dif­fi­cult eco­nom­ic pe­ri­ods the world has ever seen.

For there to be a re­duc­tion in the cost of in­tra re­gion­al trav­el there must be the po­lit­i­cal will that will see things like a re­duc­tion in air­line fees to is­lands for en­ter­ing their air­space and a sin­gle visa regime urged the Tourism Min­is­ter of Ja­maica Ed­mund Bartlett.

In two months, T&T will mark 60 years as an in­de­pen­dent coun­try. T&T was the sec­ond coun­try in Cari­com to be giv­en its in­de­pen­dence fol­low­ing the failed at­tempt at a West In­dies Fed­er­a­tion and was pre­ced­ed by a few weeks by Ja­maica. No­tice I said post the failed fed­er­a­tion be­cause Haiti, a mem­ber of Cari­com, was the first coun­try to gain its in­de­pen­dence.

First Cit­i­zens has launched an Ad­di­tion­al Pub­lic Of­fer­ing (APO) of shares at an of­fer price of TT$50.00 per share. This is the same price that the shares opened trad­ing on Tues­day on the Trinidad and To­ba­go stock ex­change and at close of trad­ing it had gained two cents to close at $50.02.

On the day that First Cit­i­zens launched its Ad­di­tion­al Pub­lic Of­fer­ing (APO) it re­vealed to the mar­ket that it was seek­ing to bor­row close to $1.2 bil­lion from IDB In­vest or up to US $175 mil­lion.

Ex­pect con­tin­ued high prices for am­mo­nia over the next five years pre­dicts Ken Seitz, the in­ter­im Pres­i­dent and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Nu­trien.