For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has warned that de­ci­sions sur­round­ing gas al­lo­ca­tion, state en­er­gy rev­enues, and cross-bor­der ne­go­ti­a­tions are plac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­dus­tri­al base and long-term en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty at risk, while cau­tion­ing that mem­bers of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) board could face per­son­al le­gal con­se­quences.

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

For­eign ex­change short­ages, ris­ing cy­ber fraud, and the re­al­i­ty that thou­sands re­main out­side the for­mal bank­ing sys­tem are now at the cen­tre of the Bankers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (BATT) agen­da, as ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor Ke­ston How­ell sig­nals a more ag­gres­sive push to re­shape how the sec­tor en­gages the pub­lic.

Busi­ness own­ers are be­ing urged to strength­en their cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty de­fences as in­creas­ing­ly so­phis­ti­cat­ed cy­ber­at­tacks—dri­ven by ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and deep­fake tech­nol­o­gy—pose a grow­ing threat to op­er­a­tions and fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty.

When many peo­ple hear the word ex­port, they still think first of goods. They think of prod­ucts be­ing man­u­fac­tured, pack­aged, shipped and sold over­seas. That re­mains an im­por­tant part of trade, but it is no longer the whole sto­ry.

Over the past two months, T&T has made sig­nif­i­cant strides in achiev­ing com­pli­ance with in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards re­gard­ing an­ti-mon­ey laun­der­ing (AML) prac­tices.

The year is 2026, but the en­er­gy shock of 2014 still haunts in­vestors in T&T in ways that many do not ful­ly un­der­stand or ap­pre­ci­ate.

CIBC Caribbean Bank Ltd (CIBC) con­tin­ued to prune its re­gion­al op­er­a­tions to con­cen­trate on the most prof­itable ju­ris­dic­tions for growth. Dur­ing 2025, it ex­pe­ri­enced sig­nif­i­cant neg­a­tive in­ci­dents in Trinidad and Cay­man. To­day, we will re­view the per­for­mance of CIBC for the year end­ed Oc­to­ber 31, 2025. All cur­ren­cy ref­er­ences in this ar­ti­cle are to US dol­lars, un­less specif­i­cal­ly in­di­cat­ed.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says glob­al in­sta­bil­i­ty, in­clud­ing con­flict in the Mid­dle East, is ac­cel­er­at­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s eco­nom­ic re­cov­ery rather than de­rail­ing it, as the Gov­ern­ment push­es ahead with an en­er­gy-led growth strat­e­gy and wider eco­nom­ic re­forms.

From In­sta­gram reels to YouTube videos to pod­casts, more cre­ators and busi­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go are step­ping in­to the dig­i­tal space—build­ing au­di­ences, telling sto­ries and cre­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties on­line.

The Caribbean could face a sharp in­crease in food prices with­in the next three months, with the im­pact like­ly to reach the re­gion soon­er than ex­pect­ed, ac­cord­ing to Pro­fes­sor Wayne Gan­pat.

In the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives last Fri­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced that whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) had re­port­ed unau­dit­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $3.285 bil­lion for the fi­nan­cial year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, which she said was dou­ble the com­pa­ny’s prof­it in 2024 and the high­est prof­it in 11 years.