In to­day’s fast-paced dig­i­tal land­scape, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) is no longer a fu­tur­is­tic con­cept but a present-day ne­ces­si­ty. Busi­ness­es that fail to in­te­grate AI in­to their mar­ket­ing strate­gies risk falling be­hind in an era when da­ta-dri­ven in­sights, au­toma­tion, and per­son­alised en­gage­ment de­fine suc­cess.

Sco­tia­bank Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $166.54 mil­lion for the three-month pe­ri­od end­ed Jan­u­ary 31, 2025, which was an in­crease of 1.38 per cent com­pared to the $164.26 mil­lion it re­port­ed for the same pe­ri­od in 2024.

T&T and Japan are seek­ing to de­vel­op fur­ther col­lab­o­ra­tion and in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties for the mu­tu­al ben­e­fit of both coun­tries.

Suri­name’s Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs Al­bert Ramdin was elect­ed yes­ter­day as the new sec­re­tary gen­er­al of the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS) for a five-year term, urg­ing mul­ti­lat­er­al­ism and call­ing on mem­ber states to be unit­ed in the fight against a chang­ing glob­al en­vi­ron­ment.

Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd (Plipde­co) yes­ter­day an­nounced the res­ig­na­tion of its di­rec­tor, Ayan­na Miguel, as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to un­der­go sig­nif­i­cant changes.

The road is not al­ways smooth for women en­tre­pre­neurs, but sur­round your­self with peo­ple who be­lieve in you, nev­er let any­one tell you that you can’t do it and God will di­rect your path to suc­cess.

The 29-year-old came to be known in the sport of gym­nas­tics, hard­ly the most pop­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ty with­in T&T shores. De­spite this, she made her way to the world stage at the World Artis­tic Gym­nas­tics Cham­pi­onships in 2011 and 2015 re­spec­tive­ly. The lat­ter ap­pear­ance put her in prime po­si­tion to make his­to­ry as the first T&T gym­nast at the Olympic games.

Per­for­mance or on-de­mand bonds have been de­scribed as the lifeblood of com­merce and are a com­mon fea­ture in Re­quests for Pro­pos­als (RF­Ps) is­sued by lo­cal pub­lic bod­ies and state agen­cies. A per­for­mance bond is a sure­ty giv­en by a third par­ty (usu­al­ly a bank or in­sur­ance com­pa­ny) to guar­an­tee the com­ple­tion of an­oth­er’s con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions. The amount payable un­der a per­for­mance bond can some­times range from 2 to10 per cent of the val­ue of the un­der­ly­ing con­tract.

A “proud Tri­ni to the bone” vice-pres­i­dent and gen­er­al man­ag­er of Flow Trinidad, em­bod­ies re­silience, sheer de­ter­mi­na­tion and proud suc­cess, hav­ing com­ing through the ranks in the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in­dus­try and ris­ing to hold one of the top po­si­tions.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon, met with a of­fi­cials from both Chi­na and Ghana on Fri­day.

The Cen­tral Bank has reg­is­tered Massy Re­mit­tance Ser­vices (Trinidad) Ltd (MRSTL) on March 3, 2025 to car­ry on the busi­ness of an e-mon­ey is­suer in this coun­try us­ing its dig­i­tal wal­let app; WID­IT.

Wayne Dass was named yes­ter­day as the gen­er­al man­ag­er of the Na­tion­al In­vest­ment Fund Hold­ing Com­pa­ny (NIF), the first time the sev­en-year old com­pa­ny has em­ployed a se­nior of­fi­cer.