For­mer En­er­gy Cham­ber chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Dr Dax Dri­ver has raised ques­tions as to whether T&T has the en­er­gy gen­er­a­tion ca­pac­i­ty to sup­ply the pro­posed da­ta cen­tres.

On Wednes­day, Ari­api­ta Av­enue seemed to be in a state of tran­scen­dence. For some, it might have felt like a glimpse in­to Buenos Aires or Rosario in Ar­genti­na, as many clad in blue and white flocked to bars along the stretch to watch and cel­e­brate Eng­land’s fall to an­oth­er Li­onel Mes­si-head­lined come­back.

Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (Cari­CRIS) has as­signed ANSA McAL an ini­tial is­suer cred­it rat­ings of “Cari­AA” on the re­gion­al scale and “ttAA” on the T&T na­tion­al scale by , sig­ni­fy­ing a high lev­el of cred­it­wor­thi­ness in re­la­tion to oth­er or­gan­i­sa­tions in T&T and across the wider Caribbean.

An­drea Perez-Sobers
Se­nior Re­porter
an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt

The promise is dif­fi­cult to ig­nore. Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) is trans­form­ing in­dus­tries, tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies are pour­ing bil­lions of dol­lars in­to com­put­ing in­fra­struc­ture, and coun­tries across the world are com­pet­ing to host the da­ta cen­tres that pow­er the next gen­er­a­tion of AI mod­els.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice has re­port­ed no change in the in­fla­tion for June com­pared to the pre­vi­ous month, ac­cord­ing to the con­sumer price in­dex (CPI).

Re­lief swept through Blue Wa­ters yes­ter­day af­ter­noon af­ter the Court of Ap­peal or­dered the re­lease of the com­pa­ny’s ex­ec­u­tive chair­man, Do­minic Hadeed, and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, from cus­tody, with em­ploy­ees de­scrib­ing the de­ci­sion as a wel­come de­vel­op­ment fol­low­ing more than three weeks of un­cer­tain­ty.

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, com­pli­ance is still too of­ten viewed as the func­tion that slows things down, asks dif­fi­cult ques­tions, and says “no” when busi­ness wants to move quick­ly. I un­der­stand why that per­cep­tion ex­ists. Com­pli­ance can feel de­mand­ing, es­pe­cial­ly when dead­lines are tight, cus­tomer ex­pec­ta­tions are high, and reg­u­la­to­ry oblig­a­tions con­tin­ue to ex­pand.

An­drea Perez-Sobers
Se­nior Re­porter
an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt

Two of the re­gion’s lead­ing food man­u­fac­tur­ers have ex­pressed in­ter­est in ex­plor­ing the fu­ture of Nestlé Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dairy and juices busi­ness if the com­pa­ny opens dis­cus­sions with po­ten­tial buy­ers.

Glob­al gas flar­ing climbed to its high­est lev­el in five years in 2025, with pro­duc­ers burn­ing an es­ti­mat­ed 167 bil­lion cu­bic me­tres (bcm) of nat­ur­al gas, ac­cord­ing to the World Bank’s 2026 Glob­al Gas Flar­ing Track­er Re­port.

It has long been proven that a com­pa­ny’s great­est as­set is its peo­ple, yet many com­pa­nies strug­gle to source, at­tract, de­vel­op and re­tain per­sons equipped to con­sis­tent­ly cre­ate val­ue and re­alise their fullest po­ten­tial, through shared vi­sion, team­work, and com­mit­ment to long-term suc­cess. The FI­FA World Cup 2026 has high­light­ed how suc­cess­ful foot­ball na­tions have per­fect­ed sys­tems to con­sis­tent­ly source tal­ent, pro­duce elite per­form­ers and build co­he­sive teams. Coun­tries in­clud­ing Eng­land, France, Ger­many, Spain and Mo­roc­co, have de­vel­oped ecosys­tems that iden­ti­fy, de­vel­op, at­tract and re­tain glob­al tal­ent.

Even as many T&T house­holds con­tin­ue to com­plain that it is be­com­ing hard­er to stretch their salaries to cov­er gro­cery bills and every­day ex­pens­es, Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai says of­fi­cial da­ta con­tin­ues to show in­fla­tion re­mains un­der con­trol and the broad­er econ­o­my has re­mained sta­ble dur­ing the first half of 2026.

T&T is con­tin­u­ing to shift its com­mer­cial and busi­ness ties to Latin Amer­i­ca as T&T’s Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar makes good on her promise to ex­pand trade links be­yond Cari­com.