When pow­er­ful states act, small states are tempt­ed to per­son­alise the ac­tion. When small states frag­ment, pow­er­ful states do not need to ex­plain them­selves.

A new year of­ten means new be­gin­nings and fresh per­spec­tives. You may not have thought about it, but your abil­i­ty to as­sim­i­late and nour­ish your mind can have a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on your per­son­al and ven­ture de­vel­op­ment. Would a struc­tured and well-de­signed learn­ing plan sup­port your goals? The good news is that you do not have to be a cur­ricu­lum spe­cial­ist or an aca­d­e­m­ic. All you need to do is mas­ter a few key di­men­sions of au­tonomous learn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the PwC’s 2026 Glob­al CEO Sur­vey, on­ly three in ten (30 per cent) CEOs are con­fi­dent about rev­enue growth in 2026 as most strug­gle to turn AI in­vest­ment in­to tan­gi­ble re­turns while one in eight (12 per cent) of CEOs say AI has de­liv­ered both cost and rev­enue ben­e­fits, while com­pa­nies that have scaled AI with strong foun­da­tions are pulling ahead.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal will at­tend In­dia En­er­gy Week 2026 in Goa, In­dia, from Jan­u­ary 27 to 30, rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go on a glob­al stage.

CEO of Ramps Lo­gis­tics, Shaun Ram­per­sad, wants to see more of the mon­ey gen­er­at­ed by the en­er­gy multi­na­tion­als in T&T re­tained in the coun­try. And the head of one of the re­gion's largest lo­gis­tics com­pa­nies says one of the ways to boost the in-coun­try re­ten­tion of val­ue is by en­cour­ag­ing the large en­er­gy com­pa­nies to use lo­cal en­er­gy ser­vices com­pa­nies more.

Pan Amer­i­can Life In­sur­ance Group (PALIG) is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing T&T’s evolv­ing reg­u­la­to­ry land­scape—in­clud­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed as­set tax and planned re­forms to make pri­vate pen­sions tax free—as the com­pa­ny ush­ers in a new era of lead­er­ship with the ap­point­ment of Win­ston Williams as CEO for T&T and the wider Caribbean.

Chair­man of the Cli­co Pol­i­cy­hold­ers Group (CPG) Pe­ter Per­me­ll says while the rev­e­la­tion of the re­port of the Col­man Com­mis­sion of En­quiry to the pub­lic is wel­come, it un­der­lines the in­jus­tice done to Cli­co pol­i­cy­hold­ers.

The on­go­ing tri­al of a law­suit over the col­lapse of in­sur­ance gi­ant Colo­nial Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny (Cli­co) has been put on hold for a week as the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CBTT) and the for­mer in­sur­ance gi­ant’s cur­rent man­age­ment mull over its fu­ture. 

Na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Bank Ja­maica Ltd (NCBJ) is un­der­go­ing an­oth­er lead­er­ship tran­si­tion with Bruce Bowen sched­uled to demit of­fice as CEO at the end of Feb­ru­ary, mark­ing the lat­est ex­ec­u­tive shift with­in the NCB Fi­nan­cial Group Ltd (NCBFG) struc­ture.

As a re­sult of the US cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, the sit­u­a­tion in the South Amer­i­can coun­try re­mains “un­cer­tain” and there is like­ly to be an im­pact on T&T and the Caribbean econ­o­my in the fore­see­able fu­ture.

Across Trinidad and To­ba­go, the ris­ing tide of in­fla­tion is hit­ting hard­est at the din­ner ta­ble. For food es­tab­lish­ments, the chal­lenge is even steep­er: ab­sorb­ing re­lent­less cost in­creas­es while keep­ing meals af­ford­able for cus­tomers who re­ly on them.

In the past five years, Aven­ta, the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal dis­tri­b­u­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing arm of com­pa­nies with­in the Agos­ti­ni Group, has pushed for­ward with ex­pan­sion across the re­gion.