Glob­al off­shore drilling ac­tiv­i­ty eased in 2025 and re­mained broad­ly sta­ble dur­ing the first five months of 2026, fol­low­ing a strong in­crease in 2024.

CEO of the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce Dr Vashti Guyadeen is warn­ing di­rec­tors of boards that they must pre­pare their busi­ness­es and or­gan­i­sa­tions for the un­cer­tain­ties of a “volatile” world.

There is a myth in en­tre­pre­neur­ship, sup­port­ed by sto­ries about how younger peo­ple start ven­tures. Mark Zucker­berg was 19 when he start­ed Face­book. Bill Gates was 21 when he start­ed Mi­crosoft; co-founder Paul Allen was 23. Steve Jobs was 21 when he co-found­ed Ap­ple. Yet they’re ex­cep­tions, not the rule.

If you are a re­mote work­er for an in­ter­na­tion­al com­pa­ny, a dig­i­tal en­tre­pre­neur with clients out­side of Trinidad and To­ba­go, a con­tent cre­ator, an artist, or sim­ply some­one look­ing to get paid from friends and fam­i­ly abroad, al­low me to in­tro­duce you to Sen­dana.

Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai has dis­missed con­cerns of an im­pend­ing for­eign ex­change crunch fol­low­ing Methanex Cor­po­ra­tion’s an­nounce­ment on Tues­day that it will in­def­i­nite­ly idle its Ti­tan methanol plant, re­veal­ing that a strate­gic di­ver­sion of nat­ur­al gas will ac­tu­al­ly boost state rev­enues.

There are num­bers that look small and be­have large. If you want to be good with mon­ey and to be on top of your per­son­al fi­nances you should take the time to un­der­stand this re­al­i­ty.

For gen­er­a­tions, young peo­ple have been giv­en the same ca­reer ad­vice—“Study hard. Get a de­gree. Find a good job”. A dis­cus­sion among our mem­bers has point­ed to what some say: For many of our par­ents, that ad­vice worked. A uni­ver­si­ty qual­i­fi­ca­tion of­ten led di­rect­ly to sta­ble em­ploy­ment, long-term ca­reer pro­gres­sion and fi­nan­cial se­cu­ri­ty, but the econ­o­my has changed.

Dri­ven by tight glob­al sup­plies, an in­sa­tiable de­mand for ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) da­ta cen­tres, and the ac­cel­er­at­ing glob­al en­er­gy tran­si­tion, the price of cop­per on the Lon­don Met­al Ex­change (LME) has climbed by 42 per cent in the 12 months to the end of May, 2026 to a range of US$13,000 to US$13,800 per met­ric tonne.

At the post-Cab­i­net news con­fer­ence at the Red House on May 15, 2025, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar man­dat­ed three of her min­is­ters—Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dra­dath Tan­coo, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Dr. Kennedy Swarats­ingh and Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Satyaka­ma “Ka­ma” Ma­haraj—to pro­duce a re­port on forex dis­tri­b­u­tion and leak­ages over the past 10 years.

Com­mer­cial re­al es­tate com­pa­ny, En­deav­our Hold­ings Ltd (EHL), yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $22.93 mil­lion for its fi­nan­cial year end­ed April 30.

T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor is fac­ing mount­ing fi­nan­cial pres­sure, as de­clin­ing gas sup­plies, ex­pir­ing con­tracts and a string of petro­chem­i­cal plant shut­downs con­verge to erode for­eign ex­change earn­ings and gov­ern­ment rev­enue—rais­ing ur­gent ques­tions not on­ly about the scale of the eco­nom­ic fall­out, but al­so about the pol­i­cy di­rec­tion need­ed to sta­bilise and sus­tain the in­dus­try.

Shel­ley Sylvester has been ap­point­ed Group Chief Fi­nan­cial Of­fi­cer (CFO) of AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings (AS­BH).