T&T con­tin­ues to lose mil­lions an­nu­al­ly due to il­lic­it trade, and de­spite Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to tack­le this scourge, there still re­mains lack of en­force­ment and porous bor­ders which fa­cil­i­tate the ne­far­i­ous ac­tiv­i­ty.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has vis­it­ed the Or­toire Block fol­low­ing an in­vi­ta­tion from Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration Inc to con­duct a seis­mic sur­vey.

Car­la Kelshall has been elect­ed the chair­man of the Mu­tu­al Fund As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (MFATT).

The Min­istry of Tourism and Cul­ture, through its agen­cies, Tourism Trinidad Ltd (TTL) and To­ba­go Tourism Agency Ltd (TTAL), has be­gun the roll­out of the COVID-19 pro­to­cols for this coun­try’s tourism sec­tor 2021.

“I am deeply sor­ry for the in­con­ve­nience caused to not just our in­ter­net/mo­bile bank­ing cus­tomers but al­so all of our oth­er cus­tomers who would have ex­pe­ri­enced in­or­di­nate de­lays in try­ing to reach our Cus­tomer Con­tact Cen­tre with their reg­u­lar queries.”

“While the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) has ex­pe­ri­enced 35 per cent re­duc­tion in val­ue, the com­pa­ny has em­barked on an­oth­er re­or­gan­i­sa­tion ex­er­cise, that when suc­cess­ful­ly im­ple­ment­ed, is ex­pect­ed to yield sig­nif­i­cant prof­its go­ing for­ward.”

The bor­ders of T&T, where Caribbean Air­lines is head­quar­tered, are set to re-open on Ju­ly 17.

Stop politi­cis­ing the sit­u­a­tion at the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board (NIB) be­cause you are play­ing with peo­ple’s lives.

T&T is among 16 coun­tries that have sig­nalled their in­ten­tion to vol­un­tar­i­ly par­tic­i­pate in the In­ter­na­tion­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Or­ga­ni­za­tion’s (ICAO), Car­bon Off­set­ting and Re­duc­tion Scheme for In­ter­na­tion­al Avi­a­tion (COR­SIA), ICAO sec­re­tary gen­er­al Dr Fang Liu has stat­ed.

Trade Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon has ex­pressed keen in­ter­est to fur­ther de­vel­op the bi­lat­er­al re­la­tion­ship be­tween T&T and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic in the ar­eas of trade and eco­nom­ic re­la­tions.

Caribbean Air­lines yes­ter­day an­nounced that it has launched a new part­ner­ship with En­ter­prise Hold­ings, the par­ent com­pa­ny of three glob­al­ly recog­nised and trust­ed car rental brands––En­ter­prise Rent-A-Car, Alamo Rent A Car, and Na­tion­al Car Rental. The agree­ment al­lows cus­tomers to book En­ter­prise, Alamo and Na­tion­al car rentals via Caribbean Air­lines’ web­site to des­ti­na­tions through­out the air­line’s net­work, in­clud­ing with­in T&T.

A re­cent meet­ing be­tween Amer­i­can Air­lines, one of the world’s largest air­line com­pa­nies, and San­dals Re­sorts In­ter­na­tion­al (SRI) can re­store much-need­ed air­lift to the re­gion.