Bond­hold­ers of com­pa­nies con­trolled by Ja­maican Michael Lee-Chin have is­sued a strict ul­ti­ma­tum: a pay­ment of US$94.1 mil­lion by the end of De­cem­ber 2025, or face the po­ten­tial seizure of a sub­stan­tial share­hold­ing in the NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG).

The T&T Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) is once again sound­ing an alarm, is­su­ing its fourth of­fi­cial alert this year re­gard­ing a per­sis­tent and evolv­ing surge in in­vest­ment scams tar­get­ing the pub­lic.

Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali says Guyana will soon com­mence one of the world’s fastest gas-to-shore projects and is al­so aim­ing to have a sec­ond ma­jor gas pipeline ready by 2030 to sup­port the coun­try’s in­dus­tri­al growth.

Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John says this coun­try’s strate­gic in­vest­ment mis­sion to the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE) “went very well.”

For­mer pres­i­dent of the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) Ra­jiv Diptee is en­cour­ag­ing lo­cal en­tre­pre­neurs to seek for­eign mar­kets, but he is ad­vis­ing them that they must cre­ate world-class prod­ucts to en­able their en­try in­to those mar­kets.

The Plan­ning In­sti­tute of Ja­maica (PI­OJ) on Tues­day said that the lo­cal econ­o­my grew by an es­ti­mat­ed 4.6 per cent dur­ing the three month pe­ri­od, Ju­ly to Sep­tem­ber this year, as com­pared to the same pe­ri­od last year.

As Gov­ern­ment moves to ap­point a ma­jor­i­ty of the di­rec­tors on the board of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL), which would en­sure con­trol by the State of the re­gion’s largest fi­nan­cial ser­vices com­pa­ny, di­rec­tor Ja­son Mootoo, an at­tor­ney, has re­signed.

The T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) has an­nounced a ma­jor in­vest­ment mile­stone: the ma­tu­ri­ty of the Ca­lyp­so Macro In­dex Fund (CMIF).

In a move to re­shape the fi­nan­cial land­scape of T&T, First­line Se­cu­ri­ties Ltd is launch­ing the na­tion’s first-ever Sharīʿah com­pli­ant pri­vate place­ment, in­de­pen­dent­ly cer­ti­fied by a qual­i­fied Is­lam­ic fi­nan­cial schol­ar.

For many, this may be con­sid­ered a for­eign con­cept or a Hol­ly­wood script. For Bren­don Mo­hammed, it’s re­al life.

As on­go­ing pub­lic sec­tor wage talks re­main cloud­ed in un­cer­tain­ty, gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Michael An­nisette has em­pha­sised that the Gov­ern­ment’s ten per cent salary in­crease of­fer to pub­lic ser­vice em­ploy­ees is mere­ly a “start­ing point” in the bar­gain­ing process—not a fi­nal deal that guar­an­tees im­me­di­ate re­lief for pub­lic ser­vants.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny bmo­bile part­nered with the en­tre­pre­neur­ship hub for its sec­ond an­nu­al en­tre­pre­neur­ship fo­rum to as­sist en­ti­ties in a num­ber of ways.