The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) is work­ing on im­prov­ing the mea­sure­ment of pover­ty via the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try's first Na­tion­al Mul­ti­di­men­sion­al Pover­ty In­dex (MPI).

When trad­ing opens on the Nas­daq on 12 June un­der the tick­er SPCX, in­vestors will be asked to val­ue Space Ex­plo­ration Tech­nolo­gies at rough­ly US$1.75 tril­lion. At a tar­get of about US$135 a share for some 556 mil­lion shares, the of­fer­ing aims to raise close to US$75 bil­lion, com­fort­ably the largest ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing (IPO, where a com­pa­ny of­fers its shares for sale to the pub­lic for the first time) ever at­tempt­ed, dwarf­ing Sau­di Aram­co’s US$29 bil­lion de­but in 2019.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance and the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit of T&T (FI­UTT) yes­ter­day is­sued an ur­gent pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of a fraud­u­lent iden­ti­fi­ca­tion scheme ac­tive­ly tar­get­ing cit­i­zens and busi­ness­es.

Econ­o­mist Roger Ho­sein is urg­ing cau­tion as Gov­ern­ment moves to ac­cess an es­ti­mat­ed $3 bil­lion in ad­di­tion­al fi­nanc­ing, warn­ing that while the re­quest could sup­port jobs and eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty, its long-term val­ue will de­pend on how ef­fec­tive­ly the funds are used and whether en­er­gy rev­enues ma­te­ri­alise as ex­pect­ed.

Cana­di­an busi­ness process out­sourc­ing (BPO) provider Sin­gle­Point Group In­ter­na­tion­al Inc. (Sin­gle­Point GI), has ex­pand­ed its op­er­a­tions in T&T.

They have spent years per­fect­ing their In­sta­gram grid, post­ing con­sis­tent­ly, and chas­ing reach across so­cial plat­forms. But then the al­go­rithm changes, vis­i­bil­i­ty drops overnight, and sud­den­ly years of ef­fort feel un­sta­ble.

While T&T’s Gov­ern­ment is con­fi­dent that its role as a non-per­ma­nent mem­ber on the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC) from 2027 to 2028 will have a pos­i­tive eco­nom­ic and de­vel­op­men­tal im­pact on the coun­try, lo­cal econ­o­mists are not sure what the di­rect ben­e­fits will be.

The Caribbean’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in Chi­na’s Blue Silk Road ini­tia­tive may be the key to un­lock­ing new as­pects of tourism, trade, and cli­mate-change re­silience.

As some­one whose fam­i­ly and busi­ness have been in­vest­ed in To­ba­go for gen­er­a­tions, I have watched with con­cern the grow­ing ten­den­cy to op­pose al­most every sig­nif­i­cant de­vel­op­ment pro­posed for our is­land.

With the Foot­ball World Cup kick­ing off next week, fever for the world’s most pop­u­lar game is grip­ping T&T and the en­er­gy is spilling far be­yond the field.

Con­ve­nience Pay Tech­nolo­gies has re­ceived pro­vi­sion­al ap­proval from the Cen­tral Bank to is­sue elec­tron­ic mon­ey (e-mon­ey), mark­ing an­oth­er step in the coun­try’s push to­wards dig­i­tal pay­ments and fi­nan­cial tech­nol­o­gy in­no­va­tion.

For decades, Ch­aguara­mas has mar­ket­ed it­self as the Caribbean’s pre­mier yacht re­pair and main­te­nance hub. Its skilled crafts­men, ma­rine ser­vice com­pa­nies, and lo­ca­tion out­side the hur­ri­cane belt have long been its sell­ing points. Yet in­dus­try play­ers ar­gue that one ob­sta­cle con­sis­tent­ly un­der­mines those ad­van­tages, an out­dat­ed and cum­ber­some ves­sel clear­ance process.