Dr Mar­garet Satya Rose’s analy­sis of the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion’s re­cent com­mu­niqué cor­rect­ly high­lights the le­gal and gov­er­nance im­por­tance of ro­bust an­nu­al pro­cure­ment plan­ning.

Se­nior of­fi­cials at Ju­nior Sam­my Con­trac­tors Ltd have dis­missed re­ports that all per­ma­nent em­ploy­ees of the com­pa­ny were is­sued with fur­lough no­tices up to the end of Jan­u­ary, in­sist­ing the claim is “com­plete­ly un­true” and based on in­ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion.

The JMMB Group Ltd has ad­vis­es that Vedu­la Tushar Rao has been ap­point­ed to the role of group chief trans­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer of JMMB Group Ltd ef­fec­tive No­vem­ber 24, 2025, on a four-year con­tract.

More than 150 co­conut farm­ers have stepped for­ward to take part in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s largest co­conut in­dus­try re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion ef­fort in decades, as the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries yes­ter­day be­gan dis­trib­ut­ing thou­sands of high-yield Brazil­ian green dwarf seedlings plant­i­ng ma­te­r­i­al ex­pect­ed to sig­nif­i­cant­ly ex­pand pro­duc­tion and un­lock ma­jor ex­port po­ten­tial.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr. Roodal Mooni­lal has hailed the re­sump­tion of drilling in the Cara­pal Ridge-3 De­vel­op­ment Well for the first time in al­most 20 years.

De­vel­op­ment drilling for nat­ur­al gas has of­fi­cial­ly re­sumed in the Cen­tral Block fol­low­ing the spud­ding of the Cara­pal Ridge-3 De­vel­op­ment Well – the first such op­er­a­tion in the area since 2006.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is in an in­trigu­ing po­si­tion with re­gard to glob­al en­er­gy, and a son of the soil is hop­ing to see the coun­try achieve its po­ten­tial.

An­tho­ny N Sab­ga III, the Group CEO of ANSA McAL, is re­defin­ing what it means to lead a mul­ti-gen­er­a­tional, bil­lion-dol­lar con­glom­er­ate in an era of rapid change.

As the US con­tin­ues its mil­i­tary buildup in the Caribbean, re­gion­al lead­ers and ex­perts are warn­ing that this can have a neg­a­tive im­pact on T&T and the rest of the re­gion’s economies.

Bond­hold­ers of com­pa­nies con­trolled by Ja­maican Michael Lee-Chin have is­sued a strict ul­ti­ma­tum: a pay­ment of US$94.1 mil­lion by the end of De­cem­ber 2025, or face the po­ten­tial seizure of a sub­stan­tial share­hold­ing in the NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG).

The T&T Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) is once again sound­ing an alarm, is­su­ing its fourth of­fi­cial alert this year re­gard­ing a per­sis­tent and evolv­ing surge in in­vest­ment scams tar­get­ing the pub­lic.

Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) has in­tro­duced proac­tive bag­gage sta­tus no­ti­fi­ca­tions for its cus­tomers, which will pro­vide clear­er bag­gage up­dates through­out their jour­ney to sup­port a more re­as­sur­ing trav­el ex­pe­ri­ence.