Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned First Cit­i­zens Bank yes­ter­day is­sued a no­tice to its cus­tomers ad­vis­ing how to pay prop­er­ty tax on­line.

PriceS­mart, which op­er­ates four mem­ber­ship shop­ping ware­house clubs in Trinidad, has tak­en a de­ci­sion to sell its sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing plant in this coun­try.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has an­nounced the rein­tro­duc­tion of ser­vice be­tween Kingston, Ja­maica and Fort Laud­erdale in Flori­da from De­cem­ber 15, 2024.

T&T’s ac­com­mo­da­tion sec­tor will get an ad­di­tion­al boost with two ho­tels car­ry­ing the Hilton brand due to join Trinidad’s ac­com­mo­da­tion sec­tor in the next two years.

Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Dr. Alvin Hi­laire said there is an im­bal­ance in this coun­try's for­eign ex­change mar­ket, but the bank is do­ing its best to meet the de­mands.

The on­line pay­ment of prop­er­ty tax will come on stream from to­day, as­sured Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert.

Amid con­tin­u­ing ten­sion about for­eign ex­change avail­abil­i­ty, Sco­tia­bank T&T an­nounced yes­ter­day that ef­fec­tive De­cem­ber 1, 2024, it would re­duce the max­i­mum US dol­lar spend­ing lim­it per cal­en­dar month on its cred­it cards un­til fur­ther no­tice.

West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny (Wit­co), yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter tax prof­it of $108.65 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024, 27.3 per cent less than the $149.45 mil­lion the Champs Fleurs-based to­bac­co pro­duc­er de­clared for the same pe­ri­od in 2023.

More fo­cus needs to be placed on for­eign ex­change earn­ings and what can be done to boost the coun­try’s ex­ports and plug the forex leak­ages in­to the sys­tem. 

Pres­i­dent of the Au­to­mo­bile Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion, Visham Bab­wah, yes­ter­day called for an in­de­pen­dent body to deal with the on­go­ing short­age of for­eign ex­change, as he said some sort of in­ter­ven­tion and clar­i­ty is need­ed.  

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, in­no­va­tion, and ex­pand­ed glob­al reach are some of the things that were dis­cussed at the Carib Brew­ery, bi­en­ni­al dis­trib­u­tors con­fer­ence at the Hy­att Re­gency ear­li­er this month. 

Econ­o­mist and a for­mer deputy gov­er­nor of the Cen­tral Bank Dr Ter­rence Far­rell is crit­i­cal of the da­ta used in the bud­get for fis­cal year 2025 and al­so the way it was pre­sent­ed to the pub­lic.