Di­rec­tor, Latin Amer­i­can En­er­gy Pro­gram, Rice Uni­ver­si­ty’s Bak­er In­sti­tute for Pub­lic Pol­i­cy, Dr Fran­cis­co Monal­di is of the view that Venezuela’s new min­is­ter Pe­dro Tel­lechea, ap­point­ed in March is “se­ri­ous” about con­tin­u­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions with T&T over the off­shore Drag­on Gas field.

Star­link, a com­pa­ny found­ed by con­tro­ver­sial bil­lion­aire busi­ness­man Elon Musk, has re­ceived a con­ces­sion to pro­vide a satel­lite broad­band ser­vice in T&T.

I am one of thou­sands of mi­nor­i­ty share­hold­ers of CIBC First­Caribbean, the Bar­ba­dos-based bank that was es­tab­lished in 2002 as a re­sult of the merg­er of the Caribbean op­er­a­tions of the British bank, Bar­clays, and its Cana­di­an coun­ter­part, CIBC.

Ca­ri­na Cock­burn, the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) coun­try rep­re­sen­ta­tive for T&T, is us­ing the Tamana Tech­nol­o­gy and An­i­ma­tion Pro­duc­tion fac­to­ry (TTAP) as just one ex­am­ple of T&T de­vel­op­ing a suc­cess­ful in­dus­try with­in the ser­vices sec­tor.

Af­ter sev­en years in lim­bo, the iron and steel plant in Point Lisas is ex­pect­ed to re­sume op­er­a­tions next year af­ter an agree­ment was signed for TT Iron Steel Com­pa­ny Ltd to ac­quire the fa­cil­i­ty.

Se­cur­ing T&T’s en­er­gy tran­si­tion across all sec­tors re­quires crit­i­cal fac­tors in­clud­ing fund­ing, cre­at­ing an en­abling en­vi­ron­ment and prop­er in­fra­struc­ture like a bunker­ing hub.

For much of the past year and a half, the sharp in­crease in gro­cery and su­per­mar­ket prices has had a crush­ing im­pact on many shop­pers.

For­mer chair­man of Unilever Caribbean Ltd, Gary Voss, said the mar­ket cap­i­tal­i­sa­tion of the com­pa­ny plunged by $1.4 bil­lion be­tween 2015 and 2023.

Sco­tia­bank Trinidad and To­ba­go has seen a drop in prof­its for the first six months of fis­cal year 2023 com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in 2022.

There has been an up­surge in thefts and vi­o­lent rob­beries at su­per­mar­kets forc­ing busi­ness own­ers to spend large sums not on­ly for se­cu­ri­ty sys­tems but al­so to im­ple­ment ad­di­tion­al mea­sures to safe­guard their staff, said Pres­i­dent of the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) Ra­jiv Diptee.

The lo­cal cin­e­ma in­dus­try is hop­ing that this year’s block­buster sum­mer will turn around its for­tunes.

BEL­MOPAN, Be­lize, May 22, CMC – “At the time I was liv­ing in Ja­maica, there was no rain for quite a few months. There were very se­vere wa­ter re­stric­tions where we would on­ly re­ceive wa­ter once a week” says Dr Ayan­na Alexan­der, a med­ical doc­tor and pub­lic health pro­fes­sion­al from T&T.