St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines has been con­firmed as a share­hold­er coun­try of CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

The Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (EM­BD) has re­moved its chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Er­ic Grif­fith, with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

When we give, we do not lose; we mul­ti­ply. This sim­ple yet pro­found truth em­bod­ies the spir­it of the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day (IWD) 2026 Give to Gain cam­paign. It is a clar­i­on call for in­di­vid­u­als, or­gan­i­sa­tions, and glob­al com­mu­ni­ties to aban­don the scarci­ty mind­set and em­brace a cul­ture of rad­i­cal gen­eros­i­ty and col­lab­o­ra­tion.

For­eign ex­change chal­lenges and shift­ing con­sumer de­mands have brought about sig­nif­i­cant changes in the for­eign used car deal­er mar­ket.

Fa­mous for its short, maxi-taxi style hops be­tween Caribbean is­lands, LI­AT (1974) was in many ways the back­bone of re­gion­al trav­el for decades. But on Jan­u­ary 24, 2024, LI­AT (1974) ceased op­er­a­tions, des­tined to be for­ev­er re­mem­bered as the “Leave Is­land Any Time” air­line.

There is con­tin­u­ing adop­tion of dig­i­tal pay­ments in T&T as Visa con­firmed yes­ter­day that con­tact­less trans­ac­tions grew by 30 per cent dur­ing the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Car­ni­val

Glob­al car­bon cap­ture, util­i­sa­tion, and stor­age (CCUS) de­ploy­ment is pro­ject­ed to ex­pand sig­nif­i­cant­ly over the next decade, with the steep­est growth ex­pect­ed be­fore 2030. Based on project-lev­el da­ta from the In­ter­na­tion­al En­er­gy Agency (IEA) CCUS Projects Data­base 2025, cu­mu­la­tive op­er­a­tional car­bon cap­ture ca­pac­i­ty could rise from just over 100 Mt­CO per year in 2025 to more than 1,200 Mt­CO per year by 2030, and ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,370 Mt­CO per year by 2035, as­sum­ing cur­rent­ly an­nounced projects come on­line as sched­uled.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has warned whol­ly state-owned Na­ton­al Gas Ccom­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC) against rush­ing ac­tiv­i­ty at this coun­try's liq­ue­fied nat­ur­al gas (LNG) plants in a bid to cap­i­talise on high­er LNG prices in the wake of the US-Is­rael at­tacks on Iran.

T&T re­mains the on­ly coun­try with a de­fined Car­ni­val sea­son, a cul­tur­al cal­en­dar that stretch­es far be­yond the tra­di­tion­al two days be­fore Ash Wednes­day. For Car­ni­val 2026, fes­tiv­i­ties opened on No­vem­ber 7, 2025, un­der the theme “Yuh Go Love Dis,” and con­tin­ued un­til mid­night on Feb­ru­ary 17, 2026. The re­sult is a 100-day show­case of na­tion­al cre­ativ­i­ty and com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment.

Last month, T&T’s cap­i­tal city, Port-of-Spain was trans­formed in­to a a dy­nam­ic hub of en­tre­pre­neur­ial ac­tiv­i­ty and artistry. There was a colour­ful dis­play of mas, mu­sic and move­ment that en­tices thou­sands to vis­it Trinidad & To­ba­go (T&T) and tens of thou­sands of lo­cals to par­tic­i­pate.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos—Con­ces­sion­al fi­nanc­ing is shrink­ing. Com­mod­i­ty volatil­i­ty is re­shap­ing rev­enue fore­casts. Ex­port di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion can no longer wait. Re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion re­mains non-ne­go­tiable.

Ear­ly last Sat­ur­day morn­ing, the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca (US) and Is­rael launched a se­ries of pre­emp­tive strikes against Iran, de­ploy­ing stealth bombers, fight­er jets, elec­tron­ic war­fare air­craft, re­con­nais­sance drones, kamikaze drones (LU­CAS), Tom­a­hawk cruise mis­siles, HI­MARS (high mo­bil­i­ty ar­tillery rock­et sys­tem) rock­ets, and naval strike plat­forms.