As the last two weeks have passed and the num­ber of pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es in­creased sig­nif­i­cant­ly and sad­ly with it the deaths of na­tion­als, peo­ple ap­pear to be sur­prised by what is hap­pen­ing. Of­ten, the dai­ly ques­tion af­ter the num­bers are re­leased, is how did this hap­pen? Well, this hap­pened be­cause this is T&T.

At the time of writ­ing, 55 peo­ple had been con­firmed as hav­ing, un­for­tu­nate­ly, died in T&T of the coro­n­avirus in May alone and, as day fol­lows night, I am sure by the time you read this that fig­ure would have in­creased.

The ANSA Mer­chant Bank Group record­ed a con­sol­i­dat­ed prof­it be­fore tax of $61.4 mil­lion for the three months end­ed March 31, 2021.

In its unau­dit­ed re­sults for the three months end­ed March 31, 2021 Guardian Me­dia Ltd suf­fered a re­duc­tion in rev­enue of $5.9 mil­lion or 21 per cent and al­so record­ed a loss be­fore tax­a­tion of $2.2 mil­lion.

A gas sales agree­ment has been reached be­tween the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) and Trinidad Ni­tro­gen Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TRIN­GEN).

The ab­sence of Car­ni­val this year is be­ing blamed in part for the West In­dies To­bac­co Com­pa­ny los­ing more than $33 mil­lion in rev­enue dur­ing the first three months of this year.

This is how chair­man Robert Bermudez has de­scribed the Massy Group’s per­for­mance for the sec­ond quar­ter of its fi­nan­cial year which end­ed Mach 31, 2020.

T&T’s re­trench­ment fig­ures in­creased by 80 per cent last year, when com­pared to 2019, da­ta from the Cen­tral Bank has shown.

Trinidad and To­ba­go In­sur­ance Lim­it­ed (Tatil) has an­nounced the suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of its trans­ac­tion to ac­quire Tri­dent In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny (Tri­dent) in Bar­ba­dos.

Sev­en peo­ple work­ing on the Maer­sk Dis­cov­er­er off­shore drilling rig have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, bpTT has con­firmed."

BHP Bil­li­ton’s Ru­by field will not mean any net ad­di­tion­al gas will be added to the com­pa­ny or T&T’s nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion but would in­stead be used to keep present pro­duc­tion at peak lev­els for a longer time.

Around 1997 I was seat­ed in the hall at Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege lim­ing with my best friends Adri­an Gob­in and Richard De­noon when Gob­in told us he had an idea for a busi­ness.