Two new Car­ni­val fetes are emerg­ing at a time when sev­er­al es­tab­lished events have been can­celled, un­der­lin­ing the fi­nan­cial strain now re­shap­ing the busi­ness of Car­ni­val.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice has re­leased the Con­sumer Price In­dex (CPI) for De­cem­ber 2025, show­ing a mod­est eas­ing in in­fla­tion and large­ly sta­ble prices across the econ­o­my at the end of the year.

In a meet­ing aimed at shap­ing the fu­ture of T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor, Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and Peren­co ex­ec­u­tives dis­cussed strate­gies to boost op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy, dri­ve in­no­va­tion, and se­cure long-term in­vest­ment.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie yes­ter­day laid in Par­lia­ment the long-de­layed Re­port of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the col­lapse of the CL Fi­nan­cial group and the Hin­du Cred­it Union, re­veal­ing that the State spent ap­prox­i­mate­ly $28 bil­lion res­cu­ing CL Fi­nan­cial and its sub­sidiaries, with a fur­ther $3 bil­lion to $4 bil­lion spent in sub­se­quent years on le­gal, ac­count­ing and ad­min­is­tra­tive mat­ters linked to the col­lapse.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC) yes­ter­day an­nounced the suc­cess­ful ex­e­cu­tion of a new gas sup­ply agree­ment with ma­jor up­stream sup­pli­er, US en­er­gy com­pa­ny EOG Re­sources’ sub­sidiary EOG Re­sources Trinidad.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo an­nounced this week that the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to bor­row up to US$1 bil­lion on the in­ter­na­tion­al cap­i­tal mar­ket.

A man has won a law­suit against his sis­ter over her reneg­ing on a promise to re­sell him a prop­er­ty he had sold her.

Long-suf­fer­ing share­hold­ers of pub­licly list­ed TTNGL were giv­en hope of a turn­around in their for­tunes yes­ter­day, when the com­pa­ny an­nounced a pro­pos­al to re­duce its stat­ed cap­i­tal ac­count by $2.2 bil­lion.

Elec­tron­ic Lot­to agents and the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) are at odds over plans to in­tro­duce Sun­day gam­ing, with both sides out­lin­ing sharply dif­fer­ent po­si­tions on se­cu­ri­ty, con­sul­ta­tion and rev­enue as the Feb­ru­ary 8 roll­out ap­proach­es.

In March 2025, the Cen­tral Bank of T&T be­gan is­su­ing its Eco­nom­ic Dat­a­Pack, which re­placed its Eco­nom­ic Bul­letin and Sum­ma­ry Eco­nom­ic In­di­ca­tors Bul­letin. The Dat­a­Pack is pub­lished quar­ter­ly along with the Mon­e­tary Pol­i­cy An­nounce­ment and the ini­tia­tive forms part of the Bank’s on­go­ing ef­forts to im­prove the ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and use­ful­ness of eco­nom­ic and fi­nan­cial da­ta sets.

In a world de­fined by glob­al volatil­i­ty, small de­vel­op­ing na­tions (SDNs) are re­defin­ing sta­bil­i­ty. Ge­o­graph­ic iso­la­tion and lim­it­ed phys­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture, tra­di­tion­al vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties for these states, are now be­ing coun­tered by a pow­er­ful dig­i­tal shield: e-com­merce. This ar­ti­cle ex­plores how dig­i­tal trade serves as a pri­ma­ry en­gine for eco­nom­ic re­silience, us­ing the re­cent­ly launched Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) Na­tion­al E-Com­merce Strat­e­gy 2025–2030 as a land­mark ex­am­ple of proac­tive na­tion­al plan­ning.

In a world char­ac­terised by un­cer­tain­ty, chal­lenges, dis­ap­point­ments and in­creas­ing stake­hold­ers’ ex­pec­ta­tions, lead­ers are recog­nis­ing the need for a per­son­al foun­da­tion.