The Unit­ed States has an­nounced plans to pro­vide $10 mil­lion in pro­gram­ming to sup­port re­silient port in­fra­struc­ture across the Caribbean, as part of ef­forts to deep­en eco­nom­ic en­gage­ment and safe­guard crit­i­cal re­gion­al as­sets.

A steady stream of Trinida­di­an in­vestors is look­ing north to Bar­ba­dos, not just for sec­ond homes, but for stronger re­turns, US-dol­lar in­come and a re­al es­tate prod­uct they say is in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to find at home.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s push to un­lock long-stalled cross-bor­der en­er­gy projects with Venezuela faces sig­nif­i­cant geopo­lit­i­cal and com­mer­cial hur­dles, de­spite re­newed diplo­mat­ic en­gage­ment be­tween the two coun­tries.

Busi­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go can im­prove pro­duc­tiv­i­ty with­out sig­nif­i­cant cap­i­tal in­vest­ment by cre­at­ing more in­clu­sive work­places for neu­ro­di­ver­gent em­ploy­ees, ac­cord­ing to Je­re­my Fran­cis, a found­ing di­rec­tor of the Neu­ro­di­ver­si­ty Foun­da­tion of T&T.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is back­ing on­go­ing crime-re­duc­tion ef­forts in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with com­pa­nies and in­dus­try groups ac­tive­ly seek­ing part­ner­ships with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

ANSA Mo­tors is hope­ful that ad­vanced AI-dri­ven safe­ty fea­tures in­tro­duced in its new Pro­ton X50 could help in­flu­ence safer dri­ving be­hav­iour on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s roads.

Em­ploy­ees are be­ing urged to re­tain their TD4 forms as a safe­guard against pay­roll dis­crep­an­cies, as the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) con­tin­ues to grap­ple with wide­spread in­ac­cu­ra­cies in em­ploy­er-sub­mit­ted da­ta that are af­fect­ing con­tri­bu­tion records and ben­e­fit cal­cu­la­tions.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares for its mid-year bud­get re­view, the West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny Ltd (WIT­CO) has po­si­tioned this fis­cal pe­ri­od as a crit­i­cal cross­roads for the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor, urg­ing a more mea­sured ap­proach to ex­cise pol­i­cy while reaf­firm­ing its long-term in­vest­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Trinidad and To­ba­go could soon face re­newed de­bate over its to­bac­co con­trol poli­cies, as Philip Mor­ris In­ter­na­tion­al (PMI) ramps up ef­forts to pro­mote harm-re­duc­tion al­ter­na­tives across the Caribbean.

State-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has ap­point­ed long-serv­ing en­gi­neer­ing ex­ec­u­tive Var­ma Khillawan as Act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go’s welders face shrink­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties in the do­mes­tic en­er­gy sec­tor, a grow­ing pool of high­ly trained welders is be­ing tapped for one of Eu­rope’s most am­bi­tious in­fra­struc­ture builds - the Unit­ed King­dom’s £37 bil­lion nu­clear pow­er pro­gramme.

Mas­sage ther­a­pist Kellee Spicer is dis­cov­er­ing the pow­er of brand­ing—the strate­gic process that helps build trust and shape a com­pa­ny’s rep­u­ta­tion.