An econ­o­mist and a busi­ness leader agree that while they wel­come Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s sup­port for “cap­i­tal­ism” and free en­ter­prise, this must be fol­lowed up by poli­cies that sup­port the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

At the age of 11, most chil­dren will vol­un­teer to do chores or prac­tice their best ver­sion of “ma­m­aguy” to get their par­ents to give them mon­ey to fund their hob­bies.

The Cen­tral Bank has is­sued a for­mal en­dorse­ment of the de­ci­sion by Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd (RBL) to pause its fee in­creas­es.

Cus­tomers of Trin­ba­go Ex­press are rais­ing alarm over miss­ing ship­ments, pro­longed de­lays and a lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, with some car­go still un­ac­count­ed for months and even years af­ter pay­ment and col­lec­tion.

The Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NEC) paid US$60 mil­lion in div­i­dends to its par­ent com­pa­ny, Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), be­tween Sep­tem­ber 2025 and Jan­u­ary 2026.

The land­scape of T&T’s bank­ing sec­tor be­tween June 2024 and June 2025 re­veals a strate­gic en­trench­ment of fee-based rev­enue mod­els, as eight of the na­tion’s pri­ma­ry com­mer­cial in­sti­tu­tions—ANSA Bank Lim­it­ed, CIBC Caribbean Bank, Citibank, First Cit­i­zens Bank, JMMB Bank, RBC Roy­al Bank, Re­pub­lic Bank, and Sco­tia­bank—nav­i­gat­ed a pe­ri­od of sig­nif­i­cant op­er­a­tional tran­si­tion.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank Lim­it­ed record­ed a prof­it af­ter tax­a­tion of $7.439 mil­lion for the three months end­ed March 31, 2026, as the group faced loss­es in its in­sur­ance seg­ment linked to in­vest­ment mar­ket volatil­i­ty.

Re­pub­lic Bank says it is paus­ing its in­crease in fees, which was in­tro­duced on Fri­day May 1, as the coun­try’s largest com­mer­cial bank stat­ed that it has been lis­ten­ing close­ly to the con­ver­sa­tions and feed­back re­gard­ing the high­er charges.

Nurtien Ltd is ex­plor­ing the pos­si­ble sale of its Trinidad ni­tro­gen fa­cil­i­ty, as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues a strate­gic re­view of its shut­tered Point Lisas op­er­a­tion.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, has bro­ken his si­lence on the fee in­creas­es im­ple­ment­ed by Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd (RBL), call­ing out what he de­scribed as “me­dia mis­chief” and “de­lib­er­ate ig­no­rance” re­gard­ing the bank’s pric­ing his­to­ry.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, yes­ter­day met with a high-lev­el del­e­ga­tion of French busi­ness lead­ers and in­vestors as part of the Gov­ern­ment’s on­go­ing in­ter­na­tion­al in­vest­ment en­gage­ment strat­e­gy aimed at at­tract­ing ma­jor in­vest­ment, cre­at­ing jobs, and gen­er­at­ing eco­nom­ic growth in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

An­oth­er of the ma­jor petro­chem­i­cal in­vestors on the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate has raised doubts about the com­pa­ny’s con­tin­ued op­er­a­tion in T&T, fol­low­ing years of gas cur­tail­ment and re­cent moves by whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) to in­crease the price of nat­ur­al gas to the sec­tor.