Pres­i­dent of the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) Tri­cia Coos­al has com­mend­ed the Gov­ern­ment in en­sur­ing the econ­o­my con­tin­ues to sta­bilise and grow fol­low­ing the im­pact of COVID-19 and the on­go­ing Rus­sia-Ukraine war.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber has wel­comed mea­sures by the Fi­nance Min­is­ter to im­prove the fis­cal en­vi­ron­ment un­der which the up­stream en­er­gy sec­tor com­pa­nies op­er­ate in T&T.

A new re­port from the In­ter­Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) and IDB In­vest rec­om­mends Caribbean coun­tries, in­clud­ing T&T, fo­cus on over­com­ing ob­sta­cles to fi­nan­cial ac­cess and in­clu­sion for busi­ness­es, be­cause hav­ing more de­vel­oped and in­clu­sive fi­nan­cial sys­tems can in­crease growth and re­duce pover­ty and in­come in­equal­i­ty.

A new gas sup­ply con­tract has been signed which se­cures fu­ture gas sup­ply to the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC),.

As the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance pre­pares to de­liv­er the T&T FY2022/2023 bud­get speech lat­er to­day, this week we at Bourse fo­cus on the ex­pen­di­ture side of the bud­get equa­tion. Notwith­stand­ing some re­duc­tions from peak lev­els in re­cent years, To­tal Ex­pen­di­ture by the state has re­mained no­tably “sticky.”

Dr Joseph Ish­mael Khan has been ap­point­ed as the new chair­man of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

Caribbean Air­lines says its busi­ness class pas­sen­gers and Caribbean Club mem­bers can ex­pect an “elite pre-flight ex­pe­ri­ence” at the air­line’s new­ly up­grad­ed Caribbean Club lounge at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Re­gion­al pow­er­house ANSA McAL is repo­si­tion­ing to place En­vi­ron­men­tal, So­cial, and Gov­er­nance (ESG) prin­ci­ples at the cen­tre of its op­er­a­tions.

The T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) wants Gov­ern­ment to fur­ther the growth of the small and medi­um en­ter­pris­es (SME) sec­tor as part of its rec­om­men­da­tions for the coun­try’s 2022/2023 fis­cal pack­age which will be an­nounced next Mon­day.

Rat­ing agency Cari­cris has reaf­firmed “good cred­it­wor­thi­ness” rat­ings to the Colo­nial Fire and Gen­er­al In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny Ltd (Colfire).

Ear­li­er this year Joseph, the co-founder and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Jos­al Con­sult­ing, was elect­ed un­op­posed to the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent-elect of the In­ter­na­tion­al Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­fes­sion­als As­so­ci­a­tion (EA­PA), the world’s old­est and largest as­so­ci­a­tion for em­ploy­ee as­sis­tance pro­fes­sion­als.

Fol­low­ing a state fu­ner­al and pro­ces­sion, Britain’s longest-serv­ing monarch was laid to rest along­side her late hus­band Prince Philip at a pri­vate fam­i­ly ser­vice in the King George VI Memo­r­i­al Chapel.