Whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) yes­ter­day said it had com­plet­ed and ex­e­cut­ed a new gas sales con­tract with Point Lisas Ni­tro­gen Ltd (PLNL) that guar­an­tees the con­tin­ued sup­ply of nat­ur­al gas to PLNL.

Unit­ed States chargée d’af­faires in T&T, Dr Jenifer Nei­d­hart de Or­tiz, yes­ter­day com­mend­ed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for pub­licly chal­leng­ing au­thor­i­tar­i­an lead­er­ship in the re­gion and speak­ing on be­half of cit­i­zens liv­ing un­der re­stric­tive gov­ern­ments.

Con­cerns over the lead­er­ship and lim­it­ed pay­out to share­hold­ers by Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Ser­vices of Trinidad and Toba­go (TSTT) were brought to the fore dur­ing the an­nu­al meet­ing of ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Ltd (NEL)yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Kennedy Swarats­ingh is in Paraguay to lead T&T’s del­e­ga­tion at the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank’s (IDB) an­nu­al meet­ings.

CIBC Caribbean Bank yes­ter­day de­clared net in­come of US$50.29 mil­lion for the quar­ter end­ed Jan­u­ary 31, 2026, a de­cline of 9.80 per cent com­pared to the US$55.75 mil­lion the com­pa­ny earned for the same quar­ter in 2025.

As tech­nol­o­gy be­comes more ad­vanced, the like­li­hood that a young per­son will will­ing­ly pick up a pen or pen­cil and write some­thing down is slim. With easy ac­cess to apps that can quick­ly tran­scribe lec­tures and voice notes, who cares about writ­ing and pen­man­ship any­more?

In a bid to push growth amongst Small and Medi­um En­ter­pris­es in the cre­ative sec­tor, three busi­ness­es were of­fi­cial­ly signed on for the “Buy lo­cal, Build Trin­ba­go” char­ter yes­ter­day.

For the last sev­er­al years, T&T has been hav­ing the same na­tion­al con­ver­sa­tion: for­eign ex­change.

You may have no­ticed it but did not la­bel it. It has a name: a sim­ple but pro­found­ly im­por­tant con­cept that could de­ter­mine your en­joy­ment of life. The af­ford­abil­i­ty cri­sis is im­per­cep­ti­ble, eat­ing away at your pur­chas­ing pow­er slow­ly and re­duc­ing your abil­i­ty to take care of the next gen­er­a­tion. What can you do? Since I have been writ­ing a col­umn on en­tre­pre­neur­ship, you guessed it, I have a so­lu­tion that match­es my fo­cus.

I am sure you have been fol­low­ing the news re­lat­ed to the con­flict in the Mid­dle East. The com­bat ex­changes be­tween Iran on one side and the Unit­ed States and Is­rael on the oth­er, have pro­duced an in­ter­est­ing but I ex­pect un­no­ticed asym­me­try. While the fo­cus is of­ten on the mis­sile counts and the in­ter­cept rates, there is a deep­er un­der­ly­ing is­sue that gets no at­ten­tion be­cause it is fair­ly tech­ni­cal. Ex­cept that the as­so­ci­at­ed con­cepts al­so im­pact your per­son­al fi­nan­cial life.

A fall in share prices on the lo­cal mar­ket and shifts by in­vestors to­wards high­er-yield­ing in­stru­ments have weighed on eq­ui­ty val­u­a­tions, even as Sco­tia­bank Trinidad and To­ba­go re­port­ed mixed fi­nan­cial re­sults.The is­sue of the de­clin­ing price of Sco­tia­bank’s stock was raised by a share­hold­er at the bank’s 56th an­nu­al meet­ing of share­hold­ers yes­ter­day at the Hy­att Re­gency in Port-of-Spain.

The phrase los­ing mon­ey to make mon­ey has tak­en on a lit­er­al mean­ing for the Cen­tral Bank, giv­en that every five-cent piece pro­duced re­sults in a net loss for the Trea­sury. High met­al prices and mint­ing fees have made the coin’s pro­duc­tion un­sus­tain­able.