En­er­gy ex­pert Dr Kr­ish­na Per­sad and for­mer per­ma­nent sec­re­tary in the En­er­gy Min­istry, hon­orary pro­fes­sor An­drew Jupiter is urg­ing the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties to look at oth­er sources such as Guyana and Suri­name, for gas which are not in po­ten­tial con­flict with Unit­ed States pol­i­cy. 

The sov­er­eign cred­it rat­ing of the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment has been reaf­firmed by Caribbean In­for­ma­tion & Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (Cari­CRIS) last month.

The Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try has signed a new par­tial scope trade agree­ment with Chile to strength­en ef­forts to ex­pand trade re­la­tions and eco­nom­ic co­op­er­a­tion.

Massy Hold­ings Lim­it­ed has an­nounced its in­ten­tion to is­sue a fixed-rate bond and se­cure a medi­um-term loan, each val­ued at up to TT$300 mil­lion, through First Cit­i­zens Bank Lim­it­ed (FCBL).

Geopo­lit­i­cal pres­sures are not yet af­fect­ing busi­ness at Court Op­ti­cal, but the com­pa­ny is keep­ing an eye on the tar­iff sit­u­a­tion.

Kent In­vest­ments (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed has been se­lect­ed to man­age, mar­ket, and op­er­ate the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) ho­tel that has bare­ly been used since the open­ing of NA­PA in 2009.

There is lin­ger­ing scep­ti­cism sur­round­ing the con­struc­tion of a new San­dals lux­u­ry re­sort in To­ba­go, de­spite the re­cent green light giv­en by lo­cal stake­hold­ers for the in­ter­na­tion­al ho­tel chain to sub­mit a new de­vel­op­ment pro­pos­al for the is­land.

In five days, T&T’s elec­torate gets the op­por­tu­ni­ty to vote to re-elect a po­lit­i­cal par­ty that has man­aged the coun­try’s af­fairs for more than nine-and-a-half years or elect an op­po­si­tion par­ty that has made an un­prece­dent­ed se­ries of promis­es.

Next week, T&T heads to the polls to de­cide who forms the gov­ern­ment for the next five years.

To­ba­go’s two seats—To­ba­go East and To­ba­go West—can po­ten­tial­ly have a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on the out­come of the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Methanol pro­duc­er, Methanex, has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in its pro­tract­ed le­gal bat­tle over be­ing ac­cused of evad­ing over TT$28 mil­lion in tax­es on div­i­dends it paid for 2007. 

Fix­ing is­sues that have ex­ist­ed in the yacht­ing in­dus­try for over 25 years is some­thing that whichev­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty comes in­to gov­ern­ment on April 28 must se­ri­ous­ly ad­dress for it to be a for­eign ex­change earn­er once again.