The Steel Work­ers’ Union (SWUTT) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to in­ter­vene in the drawn-out liq­ui­da­tion of the Arcelor­Mit­tal steel plant at Point Lisas, as the process is stalling pay­ment of mil­lions in sev­er­ance to for­mer em­ploy­ees.

The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion has fi­nal­ly re­port­ed to stake­hold­ers that the Cus­toms Bor­der Con­trol Sys­tem (CBCS) or ASY­CU­DA, is op­er­a­tional, but some users may still be ex­pe­ri­enc­ing chal­lenges with the clear­ance of their goods.

Frus­tra­tion is grow­ing amongst the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty over the on­go­ing dis­rup­tion to the Cus­toms Bor­der Con­trol Sys­tem (ASY­CU­DA), which is re­sult­ing in sig­nif­i­cant fi­nan­cial loss­es for them. And they are now call­ing for an ur­gent meet­ing with the Comp­trol­ler of Cus­toms.

Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the THA is mo­bil­is­ing ad­di­tion­al land to ac­com­mo­date the scale and de­sign of the re­sort.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTMA) has re­vealed that its re­cent trade mis­sions abroad have gen­er­at­ed mil­lions of dol­lars as the par­tic­i­pat­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers seek to play their part in gen­er­at­ing much need­ed for­eign ex­change.

Liq­ue­fied Nat­ur­al Gas (LNG) is one of T&T’s top ex­ports. At­lantic, the coun­try’s LNG pro­duc­er, ex­ports to about 17 coun­tries around the world. These can be bro­ken in­to five re­gion­al mar­kets: North Amer­i­ca, South and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, Eu­rope, Mid­dle East and Africa and Asia Pa­cif­ic; T&T sup­plies LNG in­to each of these mar­kets.

LJ Williams is hop­ing that re­struc­tured The Home Store op­er­a­tions will help turn around its de­clin­ing fi­nan­cial per­for­mances.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (MPAAI) Do­minic Smith says ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence has im­mense po­ten­tial to pos­i­tive­ly shape the pub­lic ser­vice.

A ‘mis­di­ag­no­sis of the sit­u­a­tion’ says for­mer Cen­tral Bank deputy gov­er­nor Dr Ter­rence Far­rell as he em­pha­sis­es that gov­ern­ments need to un­der­stand that there are cer­tain things that they shouldn’t even both­er to ask cen­tral banks when it comes for for­eign ex­change al­lo­ca­tion.

Imag­ine earn­ing $1 mil­lion every year. How long to be­come a bil­lion­aire? A thou­sand years. Now imag­ine the world’s rich­est peo­ple had to earn their for­tunes the same way—when would they have start­ed? Be­fore Christ walked the Earth. Some be­fore the pyra­mids were built. This mind-bend­ing thought ex­per­i­ment re­veals mod­ern wealth in­equal­i­ty in a way that tran­scends eco­nom­ics and en­ters hu­man imag­i­na­tion. To­day’s ul­tra-wealthy don’t just live dif­fer­ent­ly—they ex­ist in ge­o­log­i­cal time.

For most of the mil­len­ni­um, the mem­o­ry of Bagshot House, Mar­aval would have been lost to most in T&T.

Gar­ry Olsen, an ex­pe­ri­enced prop­er­ty de­vel­op­er from up­state New York, first vis­it­ed To­ba­go as part of an in­ter­na­tion­al ho­tel con­sul­tan­cy 40 years ago. In sub­se­quent vis­its to the is­land, he spot­ted some flat land on the wind­ward side of the is­land in the com­mu­ni­ty of Rox­bor­ough and thought to him­self that it would make a great de­vel­op­ment.