Ex­ec­u­tive chair of Cli­co, Claire Gomez-Miller, said yes­ter­day the in­sur­ance com­pa­ny’s sale of 36.63 per cent of Methanol Hold­ings In­ter­na­tion­al Ltd (MHIL) to the T&T Gov­ern­ment is not com­plete be­cause the share reg­is­ter has not been up­dat­ed.

In a re­lease on Thurs­day, the To­ba­go Tourism Agency Ltd con­firmed that the air­line will again con­duct di­rect flights be­tween Ger­many and To­ba­go start­ing in No­vem­ber.

ANSA McAL has be­come a mi­nor­i­ty share­hold­er in the Ba­hami­an Brew­ery & Bev­er­age Com­pa­ny Ltd (BB­B­CL).

At a time when many of its in­dus­try peers have strug­gled, Sacha Cos­met­ics, which is head­quar­tered in Freeport, has ral­lied and has come out with a unique achieve­ment: it is one of the old­est sur­viv­ing cos­met­ic brands for peo­ple of colour in the world.

On Mon­day, there was a news­pa­per ad­ver­tise­ment from the Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (Nid­co) an­nounc­ing that the Gov­ern­ment, through the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port, want­ed to pro­cure a com­mer­cial float­ing dry-dock­ing fa­cil­i­ty to be lo­cat­ed at the Caribbean Dock­yard En­gi­neer­ing Ser­vices Ltd (CDESL al­so known as Cari­doc) in Ch­aguara­mas.

Cli­co has en­tered in­to agree­ments to sell its 36.63 per cent share­hold­ing in Methanol Hold­ings In­ter­na­tion­al Ltd (MHIL) to the Gov­ern­ment and the whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al In­vest­ment Fund Hold­ing Com­pa­ny (NIF), Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Bri­an Man­ning told the Sen­ate on Tues­day.

Lo­cal busi­ness lead­ers all agree that be­com­ing pro­fi­cient in the use of the Span­ish lan­guage is im­por­tant as T&T’s busi­ness­es seek to en­ter Latin Amer­i­can mar­kets.

As T&T grap­ples with de­clin­ing vis­i­tor ar­rivals in the face of re­gion­al growth in tourists, T&T’s unique ap­proach to mea­sur­ing tourism sta­tis­tics is called in­to ques­tion, ac­cord­ing to tourism re­search spe­cial­ist Ak­i­lah Pro­cope.

The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny (Wit­co) will soon be sell­ing va­p­ing prod­ucts, its man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Raoul Glynn an­nounced yes­ter­day, as he al­so re­vealed that the com­pa­ny is still ac­tive­ly con­sid­er­ing en­ter­ing in­to the cannabis mar­ket as well.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, said yes­ter­day that some tem­po­rary dif­fi­cul­ties in the sup­ply of nat­ur­al gas from one of the ma­jor nat­ur­al gas up­stream sup­pli­ers have af­fect­ed some of the plants at Point Lisas, but up to yes­ter­day, some plants were be­ing restart­ed as they got gas.

The Unit­ed Na­tions has em­barked on a US$250,000 ($1.7 mil­lion) ini­tia­tive to boost T&T’s food se­cu­ri­ty.

Al­ready stand­ing on a his­toric and en­vi­able rep­u­ta­tion for the world’s finest co­coa beans, T&T is be­ing pre­pared for the emer­gence of a boom­ing choco­late in­dus­try.