Last week in the Busi­ness Guardian, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Mar­vin Gon­za­les out­lined an am­bi­tious pro­gramme of work to be un­der­tak­en by his Min­istry and Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), which would in­clude the re­fur­bish­ment and up­grade of ex­ist­ing wa­ter treat­ment plants at Gua­napo, Navet and North Oropouche.

In or­der to move the agri­cul­ture sec­tor for­ward, a more tar­get­ed ap­proach to busi­ness de­vel­op­ment in the sec­tor is re­quired.

Trinidad’s up­com­ing cruise sea­son is ex­pect­ed to be an­oth­er sig­nif­i­cant gain for the in­dus­try.

With days away from the 2024 bud­get to be pre­sent­ed by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert, the ser­vices sec­tor says the path to­wards eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion for T&T must in­clude the ac­tive in­volve­ment of this in­dus­try.

An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd has part­nered with Tourism Trinidad to fos­ter greater en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and preser­va­tion as the in­ter­na­tion­al tourism com­mu­ni­ty marked World Tourism Day yes­ter­day un­der the theme, “Tourism and Green In­vest­ment.”

Sagi­cor Fi­nan­cial Com­pa­ny, the largest Caribbean in­sur­ance com­pa­ny by as­sets, an­nounced yes­ter­day it had re­ceived all reg­u­la­to­ry ap­provals to com­plete its ac­qui­si­tion of ivari, the Cana­di­an in­sur­ance com­pa­ny.

It is no se­cret that this coun­try’s pro­duc­tion lev­els of oil and nat­ur­al gas are not where they ought to be.

The oil and gas com­pa­ny, Exxon­Mo­bil, says it is await­ing “a for­mal re­sponse” from the Guyana gov­ern­ment, amid the con­tro­ver­sy that has erupt­ed here over a re­duc­tion in its au­dit­ed US$214 mil­lion ex­pense.

Op­po­si­tion leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing the bank­ing com­mu­ni­ty to re­con­sid­er hav­ing the pub­lic as well as mi­cro and small busi­ness op­er­a­tors forcibly use Au­to­mat­ed Teller Ma­chines (ATM) for fi­nan­cial de­posits.

Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Hous­ton Ross as its group chief in­for­ma­tion and dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer, ef­fec­tive June 1, 2023.

A Fi­nan­cial Lit­er­a­cy and Fi­nan­cial In­clu­sion Sur­vey con­duct­ed by the St Kitts-based East­ern Caribbean Cen­tral bank (EC­CB) has found that fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy in the East­ern Caribbean Cur­ren­cy Union (EC­CU) is gen­er­al­ly low, but low­est in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

A call has been made by tourism stake­hold­ers for more fund­ing to be al­lo­cat­ed to the sec­tor in the up­com­ing bud­get.