The Cari­com Pri­vate Sec­tor Or­ga­ni­za­tion (CP­SO), and sev­en oth­er pri­vate sec­tor or­gan­i­sa­tions through­out the re­gion, has is­sued a re­minder about the ben­e­fits of the Cari­com Sin­gle Mar­ket and Econ­o­my (CSME).

For­mer MP Rush­ton Paray says while he un­der­stands the frus­ta­tion that has dri­ven the call by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce for a mar­ket-dri­ven ex­change rate, he has warned that the low­er class will take the longest and most sig­nif­i­cant hit if such a mea­sure is in­tro­duced.

Fazir Khan, pres­i­dent of the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for the Con­struc­tion In­dus­try (JCC), has strong­ly re­ject­ed any sug­ges­tion that T&T could af­ford to dis­count or jeop­ar­dise its re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com, warn­ing that such a stance would un­der­mine the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic re­silience. Khan told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the ev­i­dence is un­equiv­o­cal that Cari­com is not mere­ly an im­por­tant trad­ing part­ner, but an in­dis­pens­able one, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the non-en­er­gy and con­struc­tion sec­tors, as the coun­try seeks to di­ver­si­fy away from hy­dro­car­bons. Of­fi­cial trade sta­tis­tics show that Cari­com is Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sec­ond-largest ex­port mar­ket, ac­count­ing for rough­ly ten per cent of to­tal glob­al ex­ports and an even larg­er pro­por­tion of non-en­er­gy ex­ports.

Dr In­shan Meahjohn has ex­it­ed his post as chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of iGovTT af­ter his con­tract was not re­newed.Meahjohn, who served at the iGovTT of­fice in Port of Spain from De­cem­ber 2022 to No­vem­ber 2025, was re­port­ed­ly es­cort­ed from the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s of­fices on his fi­nal day.

The Star­lite Group has apol­o­gised to cus­tomers for the re­duced avail­abil­i­ty of choco­lates and con­fec­tionery this Christ­mas, point­ing to on­go­ing im­port re­stric­tions that con­tin­ue to dis­rupt re­tail sup­ply chains across T&T.

Term Fi­nance, through its brand Stan­dard Cred­it, has part­nered with so­ca artiste Mi­cal Te­ja as the ti­tle spon­sor for his event, Mas The Ex­pe­ri­ence, sig­nalling a deep­er push in­to sup­port­ing Car­ni­val and the wider cre­ative econ­o­my.

Fol­low­ing is an opin­ion on the on­go­ing US-Venezuela ten­sions, as it re­lates to T&T’s stance, pub­lished in yes­ter­day’s edi­tion of the Ja­maica Ob­serv­er.

One day af­ter the Prime Min­is­ter was crit­i­cal of the state of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty, the im­por­tance of com­mu­ni­ty, lo­cal­ly, re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly was re­flect­ed up­on by busi­ness and re­li­gious lead­ers, who urged Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ac­knowl­edge Cari­com’s im­por­tance to T&T on Sun­day.

The con­flict be­tween the US and Venezuela may not on­ly erupt in­to a tra­di­tion­al war with sol­diers and ri­fles, but there could be cy­ber­war which can im­pact T&T’s busi­ness­es and the na­tion­al econ­o­my.

When Nicole Kalloo dis­cov­ered she was be­ing over­charged by the elec­tri­cians hired to build-out her bak­ery, she did not sim­ply suc­cumb to the frus­tra­tion of the mo­ment or set­tle for a fi­nan­cial loss.

The jour­ney was nev­er fast, nev­er script­ed and nev­er guar­an­teed. For An­ge­lo Daniel Austin, who has spent just over 11 months as CEO of Xtra Foods, the climb from su­per­mar­ket floor staff to the ex­ec­u­tive suite was de­lib­er­ate­ly an­chored in ser­vice, dis­ci­pline, men­tor­ship and an un­wa­ver­ing be­lief that de­tails mat­ter.
Austin grew up in Brazil Vil­lage, one of six sib­lings in a house­hold where mon­ey was tight but val­ues were firm­ly root­ed. Those ear­ly lessons, he told Sun­day Busi­ness Guardian last Fri­day, shaped not on­ly his char­ac­ter but his ca­reer.
“I came from a very hum­ble home,” Austin re­called. “My par­ents taught us sim­ple things: if some­body gives you some­thing, al­ways say thank you. Al­ways say, “Have a nice day.”

The Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board (NIB) has for­mal­ly no­ti­fied em­ploy­ers and work­ers that Na­tion­al In­sur­ance con­tri­bu­tions will rise from 13.2 per cent to 16.2 per cent, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 5, 2026, fol­low­ing the pas­sage of the 2025 Fi­nance Bill.