In a press re­lease on Mon­day, the Ja­maican com­pa­ny con­firmed it had ac­quired the re­main­ing 55 per cent in­ter­est and was tak­ing full own­er­ship of the com­pa­ny just about two years af­ter the PBS Group first in­vest­ed in it.

T&T In­sur­ance Ltd (Tatil) and Colo­nial Fire & Gen­er­al In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny Ltd (Colfire) are seek­ing to for­mal­ly com­bine their op­er­a­tions through a pro­posed amal­ga­ma­tion that will cre­ate a sin­gle le­gal en­ti­ty from Jan­u­ary 1, 2027, sub­ject to ap­proval from the Cen­tral Bank.

ANSA McAL has ap­point­ed Na­tal­ie Abra­hams as ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, Bar­ba­dos and the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS), in a new­ly cre­at­ed role aimed at strength­en­ing the group’s pres­ence and growth across the East­ern Caribbean.

The name Con­tour Air­lines, not to be con­fused with Ger­man leisure car­ri­er Con­dor Air­lines, prob­a­bly doesn’t ring a bell if you live in the Caribbean. Yet over the past few months, the car­ri­er bet­ter known in the US than in the Caribbean has qui­et­ly been lay­ing the ground­work to be­come a strong com­peti­tor in the re­gion. On Oc­to­ber 5 it will add an­oth­er des­ti­na­tion to its bud­ding Caribbean net­work when it be­gins fly­ing twice week­ly be­tween Trinidad’s Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (POS) and Do­mini­ca’s Dou­glas–Charles Air­port (DOM), with one-stop, same-plane con­nec­tions to St. Thomas (STT) and Puer­to Ri­co (SJU).

From sell­ing fruit chow at school in her teenage years in or­der to help her moth­er with the fi­nan­cial bur­dens at home, to help­ing her aunt sell av­o­ca­dos, chadon beni and green fig at the mar­ket on week­ends, she de­vel­oped skills in busi­ness acu­men, sales and great cus­tomer ser­vice. Her sev­en-year stint in the ac­counts de­part­ment of the in­sur­ance in­dus­try added an­oth­er di­men­sion to her de­vel­op­ment as a busi­ness­woman.

On Sep­tem­ber 2, 2026, the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) bought an ad­di­tion­al 4,430,161 of the is­sued share cap­i­tal of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd. The share price of RFHL closed at $110 on Sep­tem­ber 1, which means NIBTT would have paid in the re­gion of $487,317,710 ($487.31 mil­lion) for the shares when the trade took place on Sep­tem­ber 2.

March closed out the first quar­ter of 2026 with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s strongest month­ly methanol pro­duc­tion of the pe­ri­od, com­plet­ing three con­sec­u­tive months of growth. To­tal out­put reached 1.13 mil­lion met­ric tonnes.

It is one of the ques­tions I get asked most of­ten when­ev­er I talk about dig­i­tal pay­ments, fin­tech and in­ter­na­tion­al bank­ing.

Sco­tia­bank T&T Ltd has re­port­ed prof­it af­ter tax­a­tion of $449 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed Ju­ly 2026, a de­crease of $82 mil­lion or 15.47 per cent com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

For my 2024 In­de­pen­dence col­umn, I did some­thing un­usu­al. I hand­ed most of it over to an ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence chat­bot and then pub­lished its out­put with ap­pro­pri­ate dis­clo­sures.

As cli­mate vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties deep­en across the Caribbean, re­gion­al fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, cap­i­tal mar­ket op­er­a­tors, and mort­gage lenders are fun­da­men­tal­ly re­think­ing how cap­i­tal is de­ployed across small is­land de­vel­op­ing states.

There have been re­peat­ed calls for greater at­ten­tion to be paid to re­search in small is­land de­vel­op­ing states (SIDS) in­clud­ing the Caribbean.