While this coun­try wel­comed the new US$129.83 mil­lion ter­mi­nal at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Crown Point, To­ba­go about a week ago, de­vel­op­men­tal econ­o­mist Dr Mar­lene Attzs says the fa­cil­i­ty should not be seen as just an­oth­er in­fra­struc­ture project - rather it must be a tool for eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion, a cat­a­lyst for growth, job cre­ation and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment for the is­land.

Busi­ness­woman Nan­di Man­dela, who is the grand­daugh­ter of South African free­dom fight­er and for­mer pres­i­dent, Nel­son Man­dela, be­lieves more needs to be done to thrust women in­to lead­er­ship roles in the world of busi­ness and in gen­er­al.

A fi­nan­cial so­lu­tion for the man on the street and the un­banked. That is the premise on which WiLoan was built.

Lo­cal im­porters and ex­porters now have ac­cess to a lot more cold stor­age af­ter ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd un­veiled a new 5,000 square feet cold stor­age unit on Thurs­day.

Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (Cari­CRIS) has is­sued im­proved rat­ings for Sagi­cor Group Ja­maica.

The ANSA McAL group yes­ter­day de­clared af­ter-tax prof­it of $675.54 mil­lion in its fi­nan­cial year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024, a 13.6 per cent in­crease com­pared to the $584.48 mil­lion the com­pa­ny earned in 2023.

New­ly mint­ed Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young will meet the Bank­ing sec­tor next Tues­day con­cern­ing the al­lo­ca­tion of for­eign ex­change to the pub­lic.

Guardian Me­dia Ltd (GML) yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $6.74 mil­lion in the fourth quar­ter of its fi­nan­cial year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024, an in­crease of 71.3 per cent com­pared to the $3.93 mil­lion the me­dia house de­clared for the same pe­ri­od in 2023.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank Ltd yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­its of $162.24 mil­lion for the fi­nan­cial year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024, a 25.5 per cent in­crease com­pared to the $129.29 mil­lion the com­pa­ny earned in 2023.

As glob­al trade wars con­tin­ue, Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try Paula Gopee-Scoon is ad­vis­ing the pri­vate sec­tor to re­main vig­i­lant re­gard­ing the over­all trade land­scape.

In my view, the fact that one of the first of­fi­cial de­ci­sions made by Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young was to se­lect new Min­is­ters of Fi­nance and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty is both an in­di­ca­tion of the im­por­tance of those min­istries and of the need for change in the man­age­ment of the econ­o­my and of the crime sit­u­a­tion.

Founder of Van­i­ty In­ter­na­tion­al, Sher­ma Best is con­fi­dent that her in­no­v­a­tive, en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly cold tow­els will con­tin­ue to break in­to new re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.