The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) has wel­comed re­cent talks in­volv­ing the Gov­ern­ment, the Cen­tral Bank, and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the bank­ing sec­tor, de­scrib­ing the en­gage­ment as im­por­tant to strength­en­ing the coun­try’s fi­nan­cial sys­tem and sup­port­ing eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment.

Cana­di­an en­er­gy com­pa­ny Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration says two new oil wells brought in­to pro­duc­tion this month are al­ready de­liv­er­ing im­me­di­ate cash flow, while the com­pa­ny pre­pares for high­er nat­ur­al gas pric­ing dur­ing a ma­jor main­te­nance shut­down at At­lantic LNG.

Ter­rence Kalloo has been ap­point­ed chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Na­tion­al Flour Mills Lim­it­ed (NFM).

Re­gion­al bank­ing ex­ec­u­tives and share­hold­ers are view­ing the US$1.794 bil­lion agree­ment for But­ter­field Bank to ac­quire Cana­di­an Im­pe­r­i­al Bank of Com­merce’s 91.7 per cent stake in CIBC Caribbean Bank as a ma­jor shift in the Caribbean fi­nan­cial sec­tor.

In­dia’s grow­ing com­mer­cial ties with T&T come at a time when south-east Asian coun­try is one of the world’s emerg­ing eco­nom­ic pow­ers.

Huawei Cloud’s MaaS roll­out in Trinidad and To­ba­go and Ja­maica is more than an­oth­er tech­nol­o­gy launch. It is an ear­ly sig­nal of how busi­ness com­pe­ti­tion is chang­ing glob­al­ly.

Trinidad and To­ba­go stands at a crit­i­cal eco­nom­ic cross­roads. Tra­di­tion­al growth dri­vers are un­der in­creas­ing pres­sure, while the struc­ture of glob­al val­ue cre­ation has fun­da­men­tal­ly changed. For decades, much of our eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty was built around ex­trac­tive in­dus­tries and nat­ur­al re­sources such as co­coa, sug­ar, oil and gas. To­day, how­ev­er, the high­est lev­els of val­ue are no longer gen­er­at­ed pri­mar­i­ly through pro­duc­tion it­self, but through re­search and de­vel­op­ment (R&D), in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty (IP), de­sign, down­stream mar­ket con­trol, and tech­no­log­i­cal in­no­va­tion.

Man­disa Box­ill has tak­en many chances on her­self and her abil­i­ties. She has act­ed, tu­tored math, bar­tend­ed, done food and drinks re­views, and com­pet­ed as a body­builder. This time around she is putting her mon­ey where her mouth is, and is adding busi­ness own­er to her port­fo­lio.

By my cal­cu­la­tion, the Com­pos­ite In­dex of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) is up by 6.28 per cent for the year to Tues­day (May 26) and the All T&T In­dex in­creased by 5.50 per cent in that pe­ri­od.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Green Fund con­tin­ued to grow in the fi­nan­cial year 2025, with the bal­ance reach­ing TT$12.86 bil­lion as of Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025, ac­cord­ing to the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port on the Pub­lic Ac­counts for 2025.

Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj says the Gov­ern­ment is tar­get­ing an in­crease in ex­ports from US$2 bil­lion to US$4 bil­lion as part of ef­forts to strength­en the non-en­er­gy sec­tor and dri­ve eco­nom­ic growth.

Moth­er­hood in Trinidad and To­ba­go has al­ways car­ried deep cul­tur­al mean­ing, but in 2026, the role of the mod­ern Trin­bag­on­ian moth­er has evolved in­to some­thing even more com­plex. She is care­giv­er, fi­nan­cial plan­ner, emo­tion­al an­chor, de­ci­sion-mak­er and of­ten the pri­ma­ry ar­chi­tect of house­hold sur­vival. A re­cent na­tion­al study of 1,000 moth­ers and pri­ma­ry care­givers across T&T, con­duct­ed by Lu­cent Re­search Lim­it­ed in May 2026, paints a vivid pic­ture of women car­ry­ing im­mense re­spon­si­bil­i­ty while re­main­ing deeply hope­ful for the fu­ture of their chil­dren.