Econ­o­mist and a for­mer deputy gov­er­nor of the Cen­tral Bank Dr Ter­rence Far­rell is crit­i­cal of the da­ta used in the bud­get for fis­cal year 2025 and al­so the way it was pre­sent­ed to the pub­lic.

Through­out the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund an­nu­al meet­ing in Wash­ing­ton over the past week, it was large­ly not­ed that cen­tral bank gov­er­nors around the world have been placed in an un­en­vi­able po­si­tion.

In­creas­ing Guardian Life of The Caribbean’s share of the re­gion­al mar­kets in which it op­er­ates is one of the pri­or­i­ties for the in­sur­ance com­pa­ny.

The British Amer­i­can In­sur­ance Co. Ltd and Colo­nial Life In­sur­ance Co. Ltd. Pol­i­cy Hold­ers Group (BA­COL) has thanked pol­i­cy­hold­ers for “their pa­tience and their sup­port ”as it dis­agreed with the rul­ing by the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) to dis­miss its law­suit brought against the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment.

​Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire says Trinidad and To­ba­go is well placed to avert the prob­lem of ris­ing debt lev­els, even as that is­sued was red­flagged as a glob­al con­cern at this week's In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) meet­ings in Wash­ing­ton DC.

In a no­tice of ap­point­ment of re­ceiv­er, dat­ed Oc­to­ber 21, Varune Mun­gal is iden­ti­fied as the re­ceiv­er of Ni­Quan.

The Caribbean is lead­ing by ex­am­ple, ac­cord­ing to the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund IMF man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Kristali­na Georgie­va.

As ris­ing cost in food con­tin­ues to be a con­cern for cit­i­zens, econ­o­mist Prof Roger Ho­sein is ad­vis­ing that one of the key in­fla­tion rates this coun­try needs to look at is that of food prices, stat­ing that this has in­creased by around 43 per cent since 2015.

On Oc­to­ber 4, with un­der two min­utes left in her three-hour-and-41 minute re­sponse to the 2025 bud­get speech, Op­po­si­tion Leader and po­lit­i­cal leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told Par­lia­ment, “Madame Speak­er, say where would we get the mon­ey for all these plans and poli­cies we have in place?

En­er­gy an­a­lyst Fran­cis­co Monal­di does not be­lieve that the T&T’s Supreme Court rul­ing in Sep­tem­ber, which will pave the way for US oil gi­ant Cono­coPhillips to seize T&T’s pay­ments to Venezuela un­der the Drag­on Gas field con­tract, will neg­a­tive­ly af­fect the en­er­gy and busi­ness re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two coun­tries.

Econ­o­mist Dr Mar­lene Attzs said yes­ter­day that she is cau­tious­ly op­ti­mistic at the lat­est fore­cast by the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) for T&T.

Cy­ber threat ac­tiv­i­ties in this coun­try have climbed from 35 in­ci­dents in 2021 to 52 in 2023, an in­crease of 48.5 per cent.