Shabir Khan has been ap­point­ed the Ex­ec­u­tive Chair­man of the Board of Agos­ti­ni In­sur­ance bro­kers Ltd.

Carl Schmitt, one of the fore­most Ger­man in­tel­lec­tu­al right-wing thinkers, ar­gued that the in­tel­lec­tu­al foun­da­tion of Par­lia­ment lies not in their rep­re­sen­ta­tive na­ture but their com­mit­ment to “a process of con­fronta­tion of dif­fer­ences and opin­ions” out of which a po­lit­i­cal will is es­tab­lished.

Af­ter an ab­sence of two decades, KLM Roy­al Dutch Air­lines will re­sume flights be­tween Am­s­ter­dam and this coun­try on Sat­ur­day.

Every month al­most $1 bil­lion is spent on health­care in T&T. The gov­ern­ment spends about half of that and pri­vate cit­i­zens, in­sur­ance com­pa­nies and the bur­geon­ing pri­vate health­care sec­tor spends the rest.

Fol­low­ing the re­cent death of its ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Bruce Ding­wall, San Fer­nan­do-based Trin­i­ty Ex­plo­ration & Pro­duc­tion yes­ter­day an­nounced sev­er­al changes to the helm of its or­gan­i­sa­tion in­clud­ing the ap­point­ment of two ex­ist­ing board mem­bers to the posts of non-ex­ec­u­tive chair­man and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer.

The progress of Wood­side Pe­tro­le­um Ltd’s ac­qui­si­tion of the BHP Group was among the top­ics dis­cussed when En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young met with a team of BHP ex­ec­u­tives yes­ter­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my is ex­pect­ed to con­tract by one per cent this year, the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund has pro­ject­ed in its lat­est World Eco­nom­ic Out­look.

This was re­vealed by Roy­al Cas­tle Ltd's man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Sandy Roopc­hand dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia to­day.

Trad­ing in First Cit­i­zens Bank’s shares will be sus­pend­ed for three days start­ing Wednes­day, be­fore the com­pa­ny delists to fa­cil­i­tate a planned cor­po­rate re­struc­tur­ing.

On Au­gust 16, the Cen­tral Bank of T&T grant­ed Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) ap­proval for its whol­ly owned sub­sidiary, Re­pub­lic Evolve Ltd to be reg­is­tered as a long-term in­sur­ance com­pa­ny to con­duct the life in­sur­ance class of busi­ness on­ly.

In a pa­per pub­lished by the Har­vard Busi­ness School the late Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus Bruce R Scott dealt with the idea of what is a na­tion­al eco­nom­ic strat­e­gy and why it is so im­por­tant.

The Unit­ed In­de­pen­dent Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Unipet) has an­nounced plans to build a US$4.9 mil­lion mul­ti-pur­pose fu­el sta­tion in Guyana.