Rat­tan Boodram has been sep­a­rat­ed from his po­si­tion as vice pres­i­dent of tech­nol­o­gy from TSTT, trig­ger­ing a reshuf­fle at the ex­ec­u­tive lev­el as the state-con­trolled telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider con­tin­ues its trans­for­ma­tion dri­ve.

T&T’s decades-long com­mit­ment to Cari­com as a ve­hi­cle for eco­nom­ic growth is be­ing sharply re­assessed by econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James, who says the coun­try’s in­te­gra­tion strat­e­gy—built on ex­pand­ing re­gion­al mar­kets for man­u­fac­tur­ing—has not de­liv­ered the ex­pect­ed re­sults and now re­quires ur­gent re­think­ing.

T&T’s suc­cess­ful elec­tion to a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil is be­ing hailed as both a diplo­mat­ic break­through and a po­ten­tial eco­nom­ic turn­ing point, with Gov­ern­ment and Am­cham T&T point­ing to new op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­vest­ment, trade and in­ter­na­tion­al in­flu­ence.

The board of Massy Hold­ings Ltd an­nounced yes­ter­day the ap­point­ment of Ja­maican fi­nan­cial ex­ec­u­tive, Patrick Hyl­ton, as chair­man des­ig­nate of the group, ef­fec­tive June 1, 2026.

De­spite a no­tice­able slow­down in in­fla­tion in April 2026, food in­fla­tion con­tin­ued to rise.

Re­silience is of­ten de­scribed as en­durance, but in pro­fes­sion­al life, it is more ac­cu­rate­ly un­der­stood as dis­ci­pline. It is the abil­i­ty to re­main ground­ed amid un­cer­tain­ty and to ex­er­cise sound judge­ment in pur­suit of mean­ing­ful out­comes.

For decades, T&T has been a na­tion blessed with tal­ent, nat­ur­al re­sources and en­tre­pre­neur­ial spir­it.

When the late French fash­ion de­sign­er and busi­ness­woman Co­co Chanel said “I wasn’t born with pow­er – I stitched it by hand, one thread at a time,” she may as well have been re­fer­ring to Siparia seam­stress, Abena Med­i­na.

It is abun­dant­ly clear that the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of T&T (NGC), over its 51 years of ex­is­tence, has done a very good job in max­imis­ing the val­ue of the coun­try’s nat­ur­al gas re­sources for the cit­i­zens of the coun­try. Both ma­jor po­lit­i­cal par­ties that have gov­erned since in­de­pen­dence are ful­ly aligned on the val­ue-adding role of the NGC. How­ev­er, as ex­pect­ed, each par­ty would claim that they have done a bet­ter job un­der their stew­ard­ship in max­imis­ing the val­ue.

For­mer Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor and min­is­ter of fi­nance, Win­ston Dook­er­an, who is an econ­o­mist, is warn­ing that halfway through 2026, com­mod­i­ty-based ex­port economies like T&T re­main in a “dan­ger­ous” po­si­tion be­cause of the over­whelm­ing chal­lenges posed by the re­gion and the in­ter­na­tion­al or­der.

In a May 15 state­ment in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs, Sad­dam Ho­sein, set out to ad­dress the con­cerns raised in the pub­lic, most­ly by Guardian Me­dia, about the op­er­a­tions of this coun­try’s most re­cent­ly es­tab­lished state en­ter­prise, Land­mark TT.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­PA) has thrown its sup­port be­hind the Min­istry of En­er­gy’s de­ci­sion to is­sue hold-over let­ters to quar­ry op­er­a­tors, fol­low­ing a meet­ing with En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and se­nior min­istry of­fi­cials in South Trinidad yes­ter­day.