Ja­maica’s NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG) yes­ter­day an­nounced the ap­point­ment of for­mer Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior man­ag­er, Arvin­der Bharath, to its board of di­rec­tors on Jan­u­ary 2, 2025.

The Port of Brighton has be­come the first port in T&T—and the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com)—to achieve Eco­Ports PERS (Port En­vi­ron­men­tal Re­view Sys­tem) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

Own­ers and op­er­a­tors of sports stores and gyms are pleased that the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance has made good on his bud­get promise to make sport­ing equip­ment ex­empt from cus­toms du­ty, VAT and the on­line pur­chase tax.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­sul­tant Garvin Heer­ah be­lieves that For­eign Di­rect In­vest­ment (FDI) and tourism ar­rivals to T&T could be neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ed giv­en the bad press that T&T has re­ceived in re­cent days, since Mon­day’s an­nounce­ment of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) to deal with T&T’s spi­ralling crime rate.

Mon­day's de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emerge­cy (SoE), is go­ing to have an im­pact on Car­ni­val and tourist ar­rivals for the fes­ti­val.

Lo­cal con­tent cre­ator Cer­ti­fied Samp­son has con­firmed he has plans to take full ad­van­tage of the mo­men­tum of his re­tail ice cream busi­ness, Cer­ti­fied Scoop, by ex­pand­ing across the Caribbean.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert said yes­ter­day that the tax amnesty and na­tion­al in­sur­ance amnesty in­tro­duced by the Fi­nance Act 2024, which ex­pired on De­cem­ber 31, 2024, will be ex­tend­ed to Jan­u­ary 31, 2025.

In a news re­lease from the su­per­mar­ket chain, the com­pa­ny not­ed that Austin had over 25 years of ded­i­cat­ed ser­vice to the or­ga­ni­za­tion.

Top­pers Restau­rant & Bar has an­nounced the clo­sure of its lo­ca­tion at South Park Plaza, San Fer­nan­do.

While T&T’s Cen­tral Bank is get­ting ready to roll out a pi­lot pro­gramme in 2025 for the Uni­fied Pay­ments In­ter­face (UPI) re­al time pay­ment sys­tem de­vel­oped in In­dia, there could be se­cu­ri­ty risks in­volved in launch­ing this in­no­v­a­tive pay­ment sys­tem.

In Jan­u­ary, the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny con­firmed its pres­i­dent for eight years, Mark Lo­quan would be step­ping down at the end of his con­tract.

Over the past year, the fis­cal poli­cies that were im­ple­ment­ed in T&T and that are cur­rent­ly un­der con­sid­er­a­tion with a view to im­ple­men­ta­tion, have had one ma­jor theme: com­pli­ance with in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards.