Massy Hold­ings Ltd chair­man Robert Ri­ley has at­trib­uted the group’s first-quar­ter per­for­mance to dis­ci­plined ex­e­cu­tion across the port­fo­lio, as he out­lined in the com­pa­ny’s unau­dit­ed con­sol­i­dat­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments for the three months end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025.
Ri­ley said the group de­liv­ered a strong start to fis­cal 2026, with rev­enue, EBIT­DA, and earn­ings from con­tin­u­ing op­er­a­tions all record­ing year-on-year im­prove­ment.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has sig­nalled that Gov­ern­ment will not ac­cept any rec­om­men­da­tion from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) that un­der­mines its de­vel­op­ment agen­da for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

ANSA McAL, one of T&T’s largest pri­vate-sec­tor com­pa­nies, said yes­ter­day that the group was placed “un­der com­mer­cial duress” by State-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), which im­posed a 77 per cent in­crease in the price of nat­ur­al gas to ANSA’s Carib Glass sub­sidiary in Jan­u­ary.

Shell Glob­al CEO Wael Sawan has placed Venezuela and the pend­ing US sanc­tions ap­provals at the top of the com­pa­ny’s re­gion­al pri­or­i­ties, sig­nalling that off­shore gas de­vel­op­ments could soon be tied di­rect­ly in­to T&T’s en­er­gy sys­tem.

Movi­eTowne own­er Derek Chin said yes­ter­day he sub­mit­ted an up­grad­ed ver­sion of his Streets of the World con­cept to the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go Ltd (UDe­COTT) be­fore the in­vi­ta­tions for Ex­pres­sions of In­ter­est for the Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print closed yes­ter­day.

Trinidad Ce­ment Ltd (TCL) has amend­ed two of its ma­jor loan agree­ments in a move that comes just days af­ter the com­pa­ny con­firmed a 15 per cent in­crease in ce­ment prices.

By any se­ri­ous mea­sure, T&T’s stock mar­ket is in trou­ble. Not cycli­cal trou­ble. Not a short-term cor­rec­tion, but struc­tur­al trou­ble.

Of­ten times in a dis­cus­sion around stock mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty there is ref­er­ence to a “herd men­tal­i­ty”. This is the ten­den­cy to fol­low an es­tab­lished group or pat­tern of be­hav­ior with­out the crit­i­cal think­ing that an evolv­ing sit­u­a­tion would de­mand.

While the Em­ploy­ers Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion (ECA) is sat­is­fied that out­dat­ed labour leg­is­la­tion is be­ing up­dat­ed, the coun­try’s largest em­ploy­er body be­lieves that this process must take in­to ac­count what is hap­pen­ing in the wider econ­o­my.

The Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence has of­fi­cial­ly launched an AI Acad­e­my, a six-month pi­lot pro­gramme de­signed to strength­en ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) com­pe­ten­cies across T&T’s pub­lic ser­vice.

Car­ni­val’s con­tri­bu­tion ex­tends well be­yond cul­tur­al pride. It is a com­plex eco­nom­ic sys­tem that gen­er­ates jobs, dri­ves for­eign ex­change and sus­tains en­tire cre­ative in­dus­tries when prop­er­ly sup­port­ed, pan­el­lists agreed dur­ing Term Fi­nance’s Well­ness Wednes­day we­bi­nar, Car­ni­val & Cul­ture – Fu­elling Eco­nom­ic Growth in T&T.

On Jan­u­ary 26, 2026, the Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Jagdeo Singh, chaired the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (Pt. 2) on the State’s ac­qui­si­tion of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.