T&T re­mains one of the Caribbean’s strongest re­gion­al tourism mar­kets de­spite eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, ris­ing crime con­cerns and for­eign ex­change short­ages, a top tourism of­fi­cial from An­tigua and Bar­bu­da said, while warn­ing that es­ca­lat­ing fu­el prices could soon place pres­sure on re­gion­al air­fares and air­lift.

Here in T&T, the case be­fore the ICJ, is seen as a Guyanese sov­er­eign­ty mat­ter and a Cari­com diplo­mat­ic ques­tion. That fram­ing has al­ways been in­com­plete and there is more at stake for T&T than we might re­alise.

The news that Nu­trien is ac­tive­ly look­ing to sell its Trinidad as­sets and that Pro­man is mak­ing sig­nif­i­cant new in­vest­ments in the Mid­dle East have re­fo­cused at­ten­tion on the fu­ture of the down­stream petro­chem­i­cal in­dus­try in Trinidad & To­ba­go.

Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains one of the Caribbean’s most avi­a­tion-de­pen­dent tourism mar­kets, with al­most half of all vis­i­tors en­ter­ing the coun­try through con­nect­ing flights rather than di­rect ser­vices, even as re­gion­al trav­el growth slows sharply and com­pe­ti­tion for vis­i­tors in­ten­si­fies.

As the coun­try en­ters in­to what is fore­cast to be a heavy rainy sea­son, ex­perts warn that com­muters and busi­ness­es may once again shoul­der the con­se­quences of un­re­solved trans­port and drainage fail­ures—con­di­tions that rou­tine­ly give rise to flood­ing, crip­pling traf­fic con­ges­tion and mil­lions of dol­lars in eco­nom­ic loss­es.

More than 500 del­e­gates, sup­pli­ers, and me­dia rep­re­sen­ta­tives are in An­tigua this week as the Caribbean tourism in­dus­try gath­ers for the 44th edi­tion of the Caribbean Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion Mar­ket­place, which opens to­day.

En­gi­neers will be in high de­mand for sev­er­al im­por­tant gov­ern­ment projects, Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Prakash Per­sad has said.

Not every­one can see po­ten­tial in items that no longer serve their ini­tial pur­pose. But wood­turn­er Evan Samuel has a knack for chang­ing what most peo­ple would deem use­less pieces of wood in­to one-of-a-kind dec­o­ra­tive pieces. He is invit­ing in­ter­est­ed young peo­ple to at­tend the free work­shops and class­es he start­ed last year, so they can learn a skill that can put them on the road to en­tre­pre­neur­ship.

The Na­tion­al In­vest­ment Fund Hold­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed record­ed of a net loss for the three month pe­ri­od end­ed March 31, 2026 (Q1 2026).

Da­ta from the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ Con­sol­i­dat­ed Month­ly Bul­letins and the Cen­tral Bank Da­ta Cen­tre, show pro­duc­tion of LNG from At­lantic LNG ris­ing to 17,594,130 cu­bic me­tres in 2025, up from 16,634,427 cu­bic me­tres in 2024.

The lo­cal dis­trib­u­tors and mar­ket­ing team for Rude Boy has clar­i­fied that it had noth­ing to do with a con­tro­ver­sial bill­board which was re­cent­ly on dis­play in Kingston, Ja­maica.

T&T’s vis­i­bil­i­ty at the re­cent­ly held Off­shore Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence 2026 has giv­en its en­er­gy sec­tor a need­ed boost as this coun­try’s ca­pa­bil­i­ties in en­er­gy ser­vices and sup­port was placed in fo­cus at the con­fer­ence.