Mem­bers of a lead­ing re­gion­al group­ing of Caribbean coun­tries have con­verged around a can­di­date re­gard­ing the much-pub­li­cized race for the next Unit­ed Na­tions (UN) Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al. Yet this diplo­mat­ic mo­ment is not so straight­for­ward. It re­quires a clos­er look with an eye to an emer­gent geopo­lit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion that car­ries warn­ings for such states, which are es­pe­cial­ly in­vest­ed in who takes up the man­tle of lead­er­ship at the UN.

As was the case with the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment, the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion seems very caught up in mak­ing an­nounce­ments that do not ap­pear to be based on any well-thought-out pol­i­cy or even a sem­blance of a cost-ben­e­fit analy­sis, not to men­tion the en­vi­ron­men­tal and so­cial im­pacts of their an­nounce­ments.

De­spite last week’s suc­cess­ful is­suance of the US$800 mil­lion sov­er­eign bond in the US mar­ket, there is con­tin­ued con­cern about the man­age­ment of T&T’s debt.

Sec­re­tary of Fi­nance, Trade and the Econ­o­my in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Petal Ann Roberts said work on Ele­phant Tree Re­sort and Vil­las To­ba­go, Ta­pes­try Col­lec­tion by Hilton is pro­gress­ing.

South Oropouche-based SM Jaleel & Com­pa­ny (SMJ) said yes­ter­day dis­cus­sions are cur­rent­ly un­der­way re­gard­ing the for­mal con­trac­tu­al arrange­ments for the sup­ply of Oa­sis Wa­ter to Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) for a one-year pe­ri­od.

Fol­low­ing re­ports of thieves cut­ting util­i­ty lines in search of cop­per, the Gov­ern­ment has ef­fec­tive­ly banned the ex­port of the com­mod­i­ty for one year.

First Cit­i­zens Group has an­nounced the res­ig­na­tion of its act­ing group chief risk of­fi­cer, Ne­sha Ramkha­lawan, bring­ing to an end a ca­reer at the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion that spanned sev­er­al se­nior lead­er­ship po­si­tions in risk man­age­ment.

Ma­jor­i­ty State-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) has award­ed a con­tract worth $405,600 to SM Jaleel & Com­pa­ny for the pro­vi­sion of bot­tled wa­ter, ac­cord­ing to the sec­ond to last en­try on the air­line’s pro­cure­ment plat­form.

The Grena­da Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty (GAA) has ap­point­ed Trinida­di­an Del­li­son Charles as its new gen­er­al man­ag­er.

Exxon­Mo­bil is near­ing com­ple­tion of its seis­mic ac­qui­si­tion pro­gramme on Block TTUD-1 off­shore Trinidad and To­ba­go, mark­ing a key mile­stone in the com­pa­ny’s first year of ex­plo­ration ac­tiv­i­ties un­der its pro­duc­tion shar­ing con­tract.

In the first half of 2026, Google I/O and Ap­ple WWDC both sig­naled some­thing big­ger than a soft­ware up­date. Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence is now wo­ven in­to how peo­ple search, dis­cov­er, re­search and buy. A cus­tomer to­day might ask Chat­G­PT for a rec­om­men­da­tion, watch a YouTube re­view, scroll Tik­Tok for re­al ex­pe­ri­ences, check opin­ions on Red­dit, glance at Google Maps and read a hand­ful of re­views be­fore ever land­ing on a com­pa­ny web­site. Of­ten, they skip the web­site en­tire­ly.

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