At the Ju­ly 7 Mon­day Night Re­port of rul­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar made an an­nounce­ment that has the po­ten­tial to be trans­for­ma­tion­al for a sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­age of T&T’s pop­u­la­tion.

Guyana’s Min­is­ter of Nat­ur­al Re­sources, Vick­ram Bhar­rat, says while the coun­try has not closed the door on part­ner­ing with T&T to re­open the Petrotrin Re­fin­ery in Pointe-a-Pierre, there are fac­tors they will have to con­sid­er be­fore mak­ing a de­ci­sion.

The evo­lu­tion of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and its use in the lo­cal mar­ket was brought in­to fo­cus for the ex­port and ship­ping sec­tors at last week’s Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion.

T&T’s first util­i­ty-scale so­lar farm, Brechin Cas­tle So­lar Lim­it­ed, has achieved first elec­trons, bp an­nounced in a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has con­firmed ex­ist­ing talks with ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al en­er­gy play­ers, amid in­ter­na­tion­al re­ports that Exxon­Mo­bil has be­gun ne­go­ti­a­tions with the gov­ern­ment to ex­plore for oil and gas in up to sev­en deep­wa­ter blocks off the East Coast of the coun­try.

Lo­cal busi­ness own­ers and en­tre­pre­neurs are be­ing urged to re-eval­u­ate the rules by which they gauge their mar­kets.

In an era de­fined by re­silience and in­no­va­tion, the 2025 Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion (TIC) is prov­ing to be more than just a trade show—it’s a launch­pad for small busi­ness­es ready to scale, ex­port, and thrive.

John Bazill, an of­fi­cial re­spon­si­ble for trade re­la­tions with the Caribbean in the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion’s Trade De­part­ment, is en­cour­ag­ing T&T to rat­i­fy the long-out­stand­ing Eco­nom­ic Part­ner­ship Agree­ment (EPA) with the Eu­ro­pean Union.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, said the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE) yes­ter­day will not dis­rupt busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty or im­pact in­vestor con­fi­dence whether on the do­mes­tic, re­gion­al or in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el.

Ef­fec­tive Ju­ly 17, the Gov­ern­ment of Bermu­da now re­quires T&T pass­port hold­ers to have a valid Cana­di­an, UK or US visa to en­ter the coun­try. On Ju­ly 16, Bermu­da’s Min­istry of Econ­o­my and Labour re­voked the Bermu­da Im­mi­gra­tion and Pro­tec­tion (Pro­hi­bi­tion of En­try) Or­der 2025 and re­placed it with the Bermu­da Im­mi­gra­tion and Pro­tec­tion (Pro­hi­bi­tion of En­try) (No 2) Or­der 2025.

Ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion—uni­ver­si­ties and oth­er tech­ni­cal in­sti­tutes—can of­ten feel like gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties re­served for the elite but those gates will be more open to peo­ple while at the same time en­abling these fa­cil­i­ties to make their own mon­ey.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change Ltd (TTSE) has be­come the newest mem­ber of the Unit­ed Na­tions Sus­tain­able Stock Ex­changes (UN SSE) ini­tia­tive.