Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Colm Im­bert says T&T is com­mit­ted to tax trans­paren­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty as well as the ex­change of tax in­for­ma­tion with 148 ju­ris­dic­tions around the globe.

The Unit­ed States Ex­port-Im­port (EX­IM) an­nounced yes­ter­day that it has grant­ed ap­proval for a US$526 mil­lion loan for a gas-to-en­er­gy project in Guyana.

Guardian Group is thrilled to an­nounce the ap­point­ment of Greer Quan as the new chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2025.

Bar­ba­dos has com­plet­ed an un­prece­dent­ed debt-for-cli­mate op­er­a­tion to fi­nance wa­ter and sewage projects re­silient to cli­mate change.

Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed (NEL) re­port­ed a net loss of $348.7 mil­lion for the fi­nan­cial year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024. 

Busi­ness process out­sourc­ing (BPO) op­er­a­tor Carenet Health, which ex­pand­ed to T&T shores four months ago, has re­ceived ap­proval for its ap­pli­ca­tion for a li­cence to op­er­ate in T&T’s Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zones (SEZ) .

Af­ter a year in which the busi­ness sec­tor faced chal­lenges like a lack of for­eign ex­change and an out-of-con­trol crime rate, the busi­ness sec­tor in south Trinidad is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a slow Christ­mas sea­son.

The sale of for­eign ex­change by au­tho­rised deal­ers to the pub­lic de­clined by 5.7 per cent to US$4.92 bil­lion, the Cen­tral Bank said in its Mon­e­tary Pol­i­cy Re­port yes­ter­day.

Any­one in busi­ness would do well to re­flect on the words of William Arthur Ward: “The pes­simist com­plains about the wind; the op­ti­mist ex­pects it to change; the re­al­ist ad­justs the sails.” For NGC, a com­pa­ny with 49 years of ex­pe­ri­ence in the en­er­gy sec­tor, ad­just­ing the sails in re­sponse to mar­ket con­di­tions is sec­ond na­ture.

Next year promis­es to be fruit­ful for T&T and Cu­raçao as the third and fi­nal round of ne­go­ti­a­tions for the Par­tial Scope Agree­ment be­tween the coun­tries is ex­pect­ed to be held in the first quar­ter. The agree­ment will see more of T&T’s prod­ucts ex­port­ed to Cu­raçao and the di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of this coun­try’s ex­port base to the Dutch Caribbean is­land and vice ver­sa.

It has been a large­ly suc­cess­ful year for the Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL). In No­vem­ber, the bank an­nounced it had record­ed $2 bil­lion in prof­its for its fi­nan­cial year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Dr David Lee yes­ter­day called on Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Stu­art Young to stop play­ing the blame game and take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the loss of $1.3 bil­lion by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of T&T.