The En­er­gy Cham­ber has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing with Staat­solie Maatschap­pij Suri­name N.V (Staat­solie) to col­lab­o­rate on build­ing health, safe­ty and en­vi­ron­men­tal (HSE) ca­pac­i­ty in the Suri­namese oil and gas sec­tor.

In a state­ment the Min­istry of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment said projects will be de­vel­oped us­ing pub­lic pri­vate part­ner­ships, adding that some of the pro­posed sites in­clude The Memo­r­i­al Plaza Project, Sal­va­tori Build­ing Project, Pic­cadil­ly De­vel­op­ment Project, The Fore­shore Green Park De­vel­op­ment, City Gate De­vel­op­ment and Colville Street De­vel­op­ment – The Pow­er­Gen Site.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte has re­turned to the pri­vate sec­tor. He has been ap­point­ed Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices Ad­vi­sor at Ansa McAL Lim­it­ed ef­fec­tive No­vem­ber 1.

The im­pact of COVID-19 on the coun­tries of the re­gion has been likened by the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) to a heart at­tack.

The JMMB Group be­lieves that in­creased fo­cus on digi­ti­sa­tion, im­proved op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy and in­or­gan­ic growth are key im­per­a­tives to dri­ve its prof­itabil­i­ty in Ja­maica, the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and T&T over this fi­nan­cial year and be­yond.

In prepa­ra­tion for the an­tic­i­pat­ed re­open­ing of T&T’s bor­ders and to max­imise pub­lic health best prac­tices in the tourism and hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tor, Tourism Trinidad Lim­it­ed (TTL), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), host­ed a Train the Train­er We­bi­nar ti­tled “COVID-19 Health Guide­lines for Re­open­ing the Tourism Sec­tor & the Tourism Health In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem”.

The T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has an­nounced that Ramps Lo­gis­tics Lim­it­ed has been award­ed “In­ter­na­tion­al­ly Known...T&T Owned Com­pa­ny of the Year” of the 2020 Cham­pi­ons of Busi­ness Awards.

The Chair­man of Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Ltd (NEL) In­grid Lash­ley has con­tend­ed that the com­pa­ny would not be best served by a long term di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion strat­e­gy.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) now ex­pects T&T’s econ­o­my to de­cline by a mas­sive 5.6 per­cent, this is a larg­er con­trac­tion than the Fund had orig­i­nal­ly pre­dict­ed.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley de­liv­ered an in­spir­ing speech that was aimed at en­cour­ag­ing the peo­ples of the Caribbean to see that this place we call home has the po­ten­tial for great things.

Chair­man of the The Trinidad and To­ba­go Bev­er­age Al­co­hol Al­liance (TTBAA) Dr Patrick An­toine has called for the re-open­ing of food and bev­er­age en­ti­ties in T&T.

Price­wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers (PwC) T&T has ar­gued that the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has ac­cel­er­at­ed changes in how and where we work, not­ing that for many or­gan­i­sa­tions the cri­sis has brought to the fore the dis­crep­an­cy be­tween the skills peo­ple have and those need­ed for jobs in the dig­i­tal world.