Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) has won the award for Best Trans­for­ma­tion Through Tech­nol­o­gy at the 2026 Glob­al Busi­ness Tech Awards.

Dr Thack­wray “Dax” Dri­ver will step down as pres­i­dent and CEO of the En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad & To­ba­go on March 31, 2026, end­ing a 24-year tenure with the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Hours af­ter ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) in­formed rice farm­ers of a pro­posed $0.50 price cut per kilo­gramme of Grade 1 rice pad­dy, Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries Ravi Rati­ram in­ter­vened and re­versed the de­ci­sion.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) met with up­stream oil and gas op­er­a­tors in what it de­scribed as a stake­hold­er en­gage­ment ses­sion aimed at ad­dress­ing con­cerns sur­round­ing the Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) per­mit­ting process.

Stu­dents at the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness are par­tic­i­pat­ing in a mul­ti-stage, AI-sup­port­ed busi­ness sim­u­la­tion de­signed to en­hance ap­plied de­ci­sion-mak­ing, col­lab­o­ra­tion, and re­flec­tive learn­ing with­in the school’s op­er­a­tions man­age­ment pro­gramme.

As Cari­com lead­ers met in St Kitts and Nevis for the 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment, with re­gion­al en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty high on the agen­da, Pro­man and Pow­er32 urged pol­i­cy­mak­ers to con­sid­er Trinidad- pro­duced methanol as a prac­ti­cal so­lu­tion to the re­gion’s pow­er gen­er­a­tion chal­lenges.

The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny Ltd (Wit­co) has reached a sig­nif­i­cant op­er­a­tional bench­mark, of­fi­cial­ly record­ing four con­sec­u­tive years with­out a sin­gle lost time in­jury (LTI).

In a scathing cri­tique of the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial com­pli­ance, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo said the Eu­ro­pean Union’s (EU) black­list of non-co­op­er­a­tive ju­ris­dic­tions was far more than a "harm­less ad­min­is­tra­tive la­bel."

If you fol­low glob­al busi­ness head­lines, you would think ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence has al­ready rewired the econ­o­my. Com­pa­nies are re­struc­tur­ing, job cuts are be­ing blamed on au­toma­tion and ex­ec­u­tives talk about “do­ing more with less” as if it is a new op­er­at­ing sys­tem for work.

Have you ever heard of the term “Fed Speak?” This re­lates to the lan­guage used by the US Fed­er­al Re­serve in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the fi­nan­cial mar­kets and there is an en­tire field of analy­sis that goes in­to de­ci­pher­ing what is meant by what is said.

Af­ter 14 years at its cur­rent ad­dress on Cipri­ani Bou­ve­lard in Port-of-Spain, Town Restau­rant & Bar is prepar­ing to turn the page, but not close the book.In a so­cial me­dia post yes­ter­day, the restau­rant an­nounced that Sat­ur­day will be its last day at the lo­ca­tion it has oc­cu­pied for over a decade.

To­day, ten years lat­er, the own­er of T De Roche Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices is get­ting ready to launch Fi­nan­cial Re­set: from Bondage to Break­through, a pro­gramme and a plat­form through which she will teach peo­ple how to get out of debt.