NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG) an­nounced on Mon­day that the share pur­chase agree­ment for the sale of its 100 per cent stake in NCB (Cay­man) has beeen ter­mi­nat­ed.

Prop­er­ty tax for busi­ness­es is not on the ta­ble at this time, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try Paula Gopee-Scoon.

Visa has not­ed an in­crease in con­tact­less and dig­i­tal trans­ac­tions in T&T dur­ing the Black Fri­day and the Christ­mas hol­i­day shop­ping sea­son last year. 

The de­bate be­tween ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and hu­man in­tel­li­gence is not about choos­ing one over the oth­er; it’s about find­ing the bal­ance that max­i­mizes the strengths of both.

While the Uni­fied Pay­ments In­ter­face (UPI) sys­tem has been “mas­sive­ly suc­cess­ful” in In­dia and will be ben­e­fi­cial to T&T, there are oth­er types of dig­i­tal pay­ment sys­tems that T&T can use as the coun­try catch­es up with the rest of the world in adopt­ing non-cash sys­tems.

The Cen­tral Bank is aim­ing to be at the fore­front of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion push in 2025.

The Car­ni­val Cat­walk red car­pet pre­mier event show­cased the tal­ent, her­itage and in­no­va­tion of the best of T&T’s cre­ative in­dus­try at Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts on Wednes­day night. The show, pro­duced by Jerome ‘Rome’ Pre­cil­la of Itz Rome En­ter­tain­ment, Rod­ney Seemu­n­gal of SGP Stu­dios and Gi­an Fran­co of Pavil­ion En­ter­tain­ment, cel­e­brat­ed the in­ter­sec­tion of cul­ture and cre­ativ­i­ty. Spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests from gov­ern­ment, the pri­vate sec­tor and the cre­ative in­dus­tries, ar­riv­ing at the venue got to strut the red car­pet greet­ed by Kaiokah Moko-Jumbies be­fore en­ter­ing the Lord Kitch­en­er Au­di­to­ri­um which was a melt­ing pot of Hol­ly­wood meets Car­ni­val. Pho­tos by Roger Ja­cob

Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon is ea­ger to see in­creased sup­ply of the na­tion­al in­stru­ment to the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket fol­low­ing the re­turn of Chrome Fur­nish­ers Ltd.

Lo­cal in­sur­ance com­pa­nies have ex­pe­ri­ence an in­crease in health in­sur­ance claims, which has had an im­pact on their health plans.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon said yes­ter­day the State of Emer­gency (SoE) could im­pact Trinidad and To­ba­go's eco­nom­ic out­look in the eyes of in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings.

De­spite earn­ing $20 mil­lion in rev­enue for the first time, the Cin­e­maONE Group has re­port­ed a net loss of $7.4 mil­lion for fis­cal year 2024.

Af­ter two years in op­er­a­tion, pan man­u­fac­tur­er Mu­si­cal In­stru­men­tals of Trinidad and To­ba­go Com­pa­ny (MITTCO) says it has seen 60 per cent growth, with most of that com­ing from the ex­port mar­ket.