It is es­ti­mat­ed that dur­ing the up­com­ing Car­ni­val long week­end, the Mara­cas Beach Fa­cil­i­ty will at­tract ap­prox­i­mate­ly 15,000 vis­i­tors.

The T&T Air­line Pi­lots’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) wants Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to ur­gent­ly in­ter­vene in their on­go­ing salary dis­pute with Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL).

The En­er­gy Cham­ber is ready to col­lab­o­rate close­ly with Oan­do Plc to en­sure the safe re­sump­tion of op­er­a­tions at the Guaracara/Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

The an­nu­al Trinidad & To­ba­go En­er­gy Con­fer­ence is the biggest and best at­tend­ed en­er­gy sec­tor event held lo­cal­ly.

On Feb­ru­ary 24, 2025, the Unit­ed King­dom’s long-await­ed Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Act 2023 came in­to force, mark­ing a wa­ter­shed mo­ment in UK pub­lic pro­cure­ment pol­i­cy. Billed as a “post-Brex­it re­nais­sance” in gov­ern­ment con­tract­ing, the Act promis­es a stream­lined ap­proach to pro­cure­ment, em­pha­sis­ing sim­plic­i­ty, strate­gic val­ue, and lo­cal eco­nom­ic growth. Yet a clos­er look re­veals a sig­nif­i­cant philo­soph­i­cal piv­ot—one which (don’t shoot the mes­sen­ger!) might, from a cer­tain an­gle, look like (lots of qual­i­fy­ing lan­guage there) it comes from the same fam­i­ly of poli­cies as Don­ald Trump’s “Amer­i­ca First” agen­da. That is to say, a will­ing­ness to pri­ori­tise na­tion­al in­ter­ests over strict ad­her­ence to glob­al free-mar­ket prin­ci­ples.

One of the rea­sons that it is dif­fi­cult to track the Gross Do­mes­tic Prod­uct (GDP) from Car­ni­val and the cre­ative in­dus­tries is that this coun­try does not have a satel­lite ac­count­ing sys­tem set up.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­vest­ment Paula Gopee-Scoon says 88 non-en­er­gy man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies in­vest­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2.27 bil­lion in their ex­ist­ing op­er­a­tions and cre­at­ed over 1,800 ad­di­tion­al jobs.

CARA­CAS, Venezuela (AP) — A per­mit is­sued by the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment al­low­ing en­er­gy gi­ant Chevron Corp. to pump and ex­port Venezue­lan oil will be ter­mi­nat­ed this week, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced Wednes­day, end­ing what be­came a fi­nan­cial life­line for the South Amer­i­can coun­try.

It meant for the first time in decades, the pop­u­lar sport could be played in this coun­try once again.

T&T’s Car­ni­val is not on­ly a ma­jor tourist at­trac­tion, but it is al­so a provider to sev­er­al spin-off of­fer­ings even in the pri­vate health sec­tor.

At Tues­day’s sod-turn­ing cer­e­mo­ny for Nu­trim­ix’s An­i­mal Feed and Pet Food plant on the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley ex­pressed con­cern about the slow pace of reg­u­la­to­ry ap­provals for ma­jor in­vest­ments in T&T.

Mas­ter­card and Feedzai, an AI so­lu­tion provider in fi­nan­cial crime pre­ven­tion, yes­ter­day an­nounced that they are join­ing forces to make it eas­i­er for more banks to iden­ti­fy and stop scams, pro­tect­ing con­sumers and busi­ness­es glob­al­ly.