Even as T&T’s econ­o­my ap­pears sta­ble on the sur­face, econ­o­mists are cau­tion­ing that head­line in­di­ca­tors may be mask­ing deep­er struc­tur­al chal­lenges.

A sig­nif­i­cant de­cline in first-quar­ter prof­its at An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd has not shak­en con­fi­dence at the board lev­el, with chair­man Gary Hunt out­lin­ing a strat­e­gy an­chored in ef­fi­cien­cy gains, ex­port ex­pan­sion and op­er­a­tional dis­ci­pline to dri­ve re­cov­ery through the rest of 2026.

Last week’s com­men­tary, in this space, was head­lined, Did the PNM fail TTNGL share­hold­ers? and may have caught some read­ers by sur­prise, as it praised the de­ci­sions of the cur­rent board of the pub­licly list­ed TTNGL for re­turn­ing val­ue to the com­pa­ny’s share­hold­ers, based on the le­gal and ac­count­ing ad­vice the board re­ceived.

It has been just over a week since US mega stream­er IShowSpeed kicked off his Caribbean tour with his In Re­al Life stream in Trinidad.

Glob­al fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien ap­pears to be mov­ing ahead with plans cen­tred on its North Amer­i­can op­er­a­tions while keep­ing its shut­tered Trinidad ni­tro­gen fa­cil­i­ty un­der strate­gic re­view, months af­ter halt­ing pro­duc­tion at Point Lisas.

Char­tered ac­coun­tant and for­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Mar­i­ano Browne, be­lieves that the vis­it of Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez to Grena­da and Bar­ba­dos last month shows that “Venezuela is open for busi­ness” and that T&T is not a top pri­or­i­ty for them.

An al­most $8 mil­lion in­vest­ment is now pow­er­ing one of T&T’s most recog­nis­able ex­ports, with An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd switch­ing its bit­ters bot­tling plant to so­lar en­er­gy as part of a wider sus­tain­abil­i­ty push.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Dr Bhoe Tewarie is warn­ing the coun­try that the po­ten­tial en­er­gy rev­enue that T&T may earn over the next few years must be used wise­ly and not squan­dered as in the past oil and gas booms.

The Cen­tral Bank of T&T (CBTT) yes­ter­day dis­closed that it is en­gag­ing Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd re­gard­ing con­cerns over the in­tro­duc­tion of new and high­er bank­ing fees, in­clud­ing whether cus­tomers were giv­en suf­fi­cient no­tice ahead of the changes.

Guyanese Pres­i­dent Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali warned that the world is fac­ing a widen­ing and dan­ger­ous en­er­gy gap, dri­ven by surg­ing de­mand, un­even in­vest­ment, and grow­ing min­er­al con­straints, as he ad­dressed the Off­shore Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence (OTC) 2026 yes­ter­day.

An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd has re­port­ed a prof­it af­ter tax of $19.4 mil­lion for the first quar­ter end­ed March 31, 2026, mark­ing a 14.5 per cent de­cline from the $22.7 mil­lion record­ed in the same pe­ri­od last year.

For­mer min­is­ter of fi­nance Colm Im­bert has at­trib­uted Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd’s (RBL) re­cent de­ci­sion to in­crease bank­ing fees to ac­tions tak­en by the bank’s new­ly-ap­point­ed board, most of whom were se­lect­ed by the cur­rent Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion.