The ob­jec­tive of an ear­ly child­hood ed­u­ca­tion is to fo­cus on holis­tic de­vel­op­ment that lays a foun­da­tion on which chil­dren can build for fu­ture suc­cess­es, aca­d­e­m­ic and oth­er­wise.

Dri­ven by tight glob­al sup­plies, an in­sa­tiable de­mand for ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) da­ta cen­tres, and the ac­cel­er­at­ing glob­al en­er­gy tran­si­tion, the price of cop­per on the Lon­don Met­al Ex­change (LME) has climbed by 42 per cent in the 12 months to the end of May, 2026 to a range of US$13,000 to US$13,800 per met­ric tonne.

There are num­bers that look small and be­have large. If you want to be good with mon­ey and to be on top of your per­son­al fi­nances you should take the time to un­der­stand this re­al­i­ty.

Last Fri­day, LaFast Mo­tors un­veiled the new BMW iX3 at its Dun­don­ald Street show­room, a ful­ly elec­tric pre­mi­um mid-size SUV which is built on BMW’s Neue Klasse plat­form.

Busi­ness own­ers across Ch­agua­nas are paint­ing a stark pic­ture of an econ­o­my un­der pres­sure, with many re­port­ing falling sales, ris­ing op­er­at­ing costs and con­sumers cut­ting back on spend­ing as they strug­gle to cope with the high­er cost of liv­ing.

T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor is fac­ing mount­ing fi­nan­cial pres­sure, as de­clin­ing gas sup­plies, ex­pir­ing con­tracts and a string of petro­chem­i­cal plant shut­downs con­verge to erode for­eign ex­change earn­ings and gov­ern­ment rev­enue—rais­ing ur­gent ques­tions not on­ly about the scale of the eco­nom­ic fall­out, but al­so about the pol­i­cy di­rec­tion need­ed to sta­bilise and sus­tain the in­dus­try.

Shel­ley Sylvester has been ap­point­ed Group Chief Fi­nan­cial Of­fi­cer (CFO) of AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings (AS­BH).

Cana­da’s Methanex Cor­po­ra­tion said that it will idle its Ti­tan plant on the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate in­def­i­nite­ly, af­ter fail­ing to se­cure a new nat­ur­al gas sup­ply con­tract with the whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

The ar­rest of Blue Wa­ters ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Do­minic Hadeed, along with his wife Genevieve and Genevieve’s rel­a­tive Star Sab­ga has trig­gered height­ened pub­lic at­ten­tion, but in­dus­try play­ers main­tain that the com­pa­ny’s day-to-day op­er­a­tions have re­mained un­af­fect­ed, with dis­tri­b­u­tion and sup­ply con­tin­u­ing un­in­ter­rupt­ed across T&T.

Three ma­jor T&T-list­ed com­pa­nies have an­nounced changes to their boards and se­nior man­age­ment, sig­nalling a pe­ri­od of tran­si­tion across the bank­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing and con­sumer goods sec­tors.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go-based sup­pli­er of oph­thalmic and op­ti­cal prod­ucts has since trans­formed the vis­i­bil­i­ty it gained as an es­sen­tial ser­vice in­to a grow­ing re­gion­al ex­port busi­ness, even as per­sis­tent for­eign ex­change short­ages, sup­ply chain dis­rup­tions and bank­ing con­straints con­tin­ue to test its ex­pan­sion plans.

For­mer Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor and fi­nance min­is­ter, Win­ston Dook­er­an, be­lieves that while on the sur­face, T&T’s macro­eco­nom­ic in­di­ca­tors re­main “com­fort­able”, the Gov­ern­ment must pro­vide more de­tails on how it will solve deep­er is­sues like pro­duc­tiv­i­ty chal­lenges and the ris­ing cost of liv­ing.