The NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG) de­clared af­ter-tax prof­it of J$30.5 bil­lion (US$190.3 mil­lion) for the nine months end­ed June 30, 2025, a 68 per cent in­crease com­pared to the J$18 bil­lion (US$113 mil­lion) the fi­nan­cial con­glom­er­ate de­clared for the same pe­ri­od last year.

Fail to plan, plan to fail. While es­tate plan­ning might seem com­plex and daunt­ing, with­out it, your prop­er­ty could end up be­ing caught in a le­gal tug-of-war, and you risk leav­ing your loved ones stuck in lim­bo. Ef­fec­tive es­tate plan­ning is in­tend­ed to en­sure an or­der­ly trans­fer of own­er­ship to in­tend­ed ben­e­fi­cia­ries, while mit­i­gat­ing the risk of de­lay and trans­fer costs.

Changes con­tin­ue at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd (Plipde­co) this time with Dr Cur­tis Den­nie, who pre­vi­ous­ly held the po­si­tion of vice pres­i­dent - port op­er­a­tions, mov­ing up to the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent of the cor­po­ra­tion.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $82.19 mil­lion for the six months end­ed June 30, 2025, a 6 per cent in­crease com­pared to the $77.51 mil­lion in same pe­ri­od in 2024.

De­spite yes­ter­day be­ing the dead­line for the US to im­pose a 15 per cent tar­iff on goods from T&T, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is as­sur­ing the na­tion that her gov­ern­ment is ex­plor­ing three re­sponse op­tions, in­clud­ing con­tin­ued di­a­logue with the Unit­ed States.

For the first sev­en months of 2025, the Com­pos­ite In­dex of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) de­clined by 6.15 per cent, the All T&T In­dex was down by 7.81 per cent and the Cross-List­ed In­dex slipped by 0.79 per cent, ac­cord­ing to the WISE Week­ly re­port for Ju­ly 31. The on­ly one of the four in­dices that in­creased for the pe­ri­od Jan­u­ary 1 to Ju­ly 31, 2025 was the SME (Small and Medi­um-sized En­ter­pris­es) In­dex, which ad­vanced by 8.31 per cent.

Weeks af­ter he was tipped for the role of chair­man of An­gos­tu­ra, for­mer Sport Min­is­ter Gary Hunt has of­fi­cial­ly been elect­ed to the board of di­rec­tors of An­gos­tu­ra.

bmo­bile Busi­ness has launched a new en­tre­pre­neur­ship se­ries tar­get­ting small and medi­um en­ter­pris­es (SMEs) as they con­tin­ue to dri­ve busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert Dr An­tho­ny Gon­za­les is ad­vis­ing that coun­tries with­in the re­gion ought to come to­geth­er to ne­go­ti­ate with the US for low­er tar­iffs.

Guardian Me­dia’s free­lance busi­ness re­porter, Raphael John-Lall, vis­it­ed Venezuela last week as part of a group of jour­nal­ists from 50 coun­tries who were in­vit­ed by Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment. The jour­nal­ists toured key non-en­er­gy busi­ness­es and par­tic­i­pat­ed in work­shops and dis­cus­sions about so­cial and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ments not on­ly in Venezuela but the Glob­al South..

There is a grow­ing sen­ti­ment that it is time to re­set and reimag­ine the re­gion’s eco­nom­ic re­la­tion­ship with Africa.

With the Gov­ern­ment’s firm stance against the elec­tric­i­ty rate hike pro­posed by the Reg­u­lat­ed In­dus­tries Com­mis­sion (RIC), con­cerns mount over the long-term fi­nan­cial health of the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC).