While the Prime Min­is­ter and oth­er se­nior of­fi­cials in the pub­lic sec­tor are en­ti­tled to in­creased re­mu­ner­a­tion pack­ages, their per­for­mance should be mea­sured against sim­i­lar met­rics used for their coun­ter­parts in the pri­vate sec­tor.

Eu­rope is a thriv­ing mar­ket that con­tin­ues to beck­on more and more lo­cal com­pa­nies to ex­port their goods and ser­vices to that part of the world.

The Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of T&T (NIBTT) paid out $6.5 bil­lion in ben­e­fits, while col­lect­ing $4.74 bil­lion in con­tri­bu­tion in­come in its fi­nan­cial year end­ed June 30 2024, Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Colm Im­bert, told Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day.

The In­land Rev­enue di­vi­sion is per­form­ing poor­ly in key ar­eas in­clud­ing cus­tomer ser­vice.

The vot­ing for a new pres­i­dent of the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB) was dead­locked on Wednes­day, with the board of gov­er­nors rep­re­sent­ing the 28 mem­ber coun­tries be­ing un­able to de­cide be­tween T&T's Gre­go­ry Hill and Daniel Best of Bar­ba­dos.

That’s the ad­vice from Desmond Di­al, chair and coun­cil mem­ber of the In­sti­tute of Char­tered Ac­coun­tants of T&T (ICATT), who said the pro­fes­sion must in­clude up­hold­ing ethics.

T&T once stood on the brink of trans­for­ma­tive pro­cure­ment law re­form, pre­pared to lever­age gov­er­nance for na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment. Yet to­day, we face frag­ment­ed reg­u­la­tions that threat­en to un­rav­el this vi­sion.

A decade and a half ago, Ter­ry Ortt turned an ex­tra­or­di­nar­i­ly long wait in­to a rev­o­lu­tion­ary busi­ness, which he hopes will con­tin­ue to lead by ex­am­ple with­in the T&T man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor.

The lack of dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy aware­ness is hin­der­ing the coun­try from mov­ing in­to the dig­i­tal trans­ac­tion realm.

As 2024 winds down and a new year is about to be ush­ered in with­in weeks, many busi­ness­es have al­ready planned their re­spec­tive paths for 2025.

In the last sev­en days, there have been three news­wor­thy de­vel­op­ments that have had a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on the dis­cus­sions on the ap­pro­pri­ate­ness of T&T’s ex­change rate and its for­eign ex­change al­lo­ca­tion.

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s choice of Mar­co Ru­bio to serve as Sec­re­tary of State of the Unit­ed States could spell trou­ble for the Drag­on gas deal and oth­er agree­ments with Venezuela.