oDe­liv­er’s busi­ness, which be­gan five years ago, is al­ready gen­er­at­ing prof­it from its core op­er­a­tions, even as it push­es ag­gres­sive­ly in­to faster, on-de­mand de­liv­ery, a bal­anc­ing act its lead­er­ship in­sists is de­lib­er­ate, not ac­ci­den­tal.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s net of­fi­cial for­eign re­serves to­talled US$5.580 bil­lion at the end of Feb­ru­ary 2026, a de­crease of US$135 mil­lion or 2.36 per cent from Jan­u­ary 2026, when the re­serves amount­ed to US$5.715 bil­lion, ac­cord­ing to da­ta from the Cen­tral Bank web­site.

Fol­low­ing its strate­gic ac­qui­si­tion of a 50 per cent stake in the Bar­ba­di­an dis­tri­b­u­tion pow­er­house Arm­strong Agen­cies at the end of 2025, AS Bry­den and Sons Hold­ings Ltd has so­lid­i­fied its trans­for­ma­tion in­to a re­gion­al ti­tan.

In a call to dis­man­tle the ar­cha­ic ar­chi­tec­tures of cor­po­rate pow­er, Ja­son Cum­mings, vice-pres­i­dent fi­nanc­ing/head of Caribbean fi­nan­cial ad­vi­so­ry ser­vices and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor at RBC Mer­chant Bank (Caribbean) Ltd, opened a di­a­logue on the fu­ture of lead­er­ship dur­ing an In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day 2026 fo­rum at the Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness on Fri­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has point­ed to what she de­scribed as “strong signs of growth” in the en­er­gy sec­tor, cit­ing ex­pect­ed in­creas­es in gas pro­duc­tion from ma­jor up­stream projects over the next two years.

Un­der­scor­ing its com­mit­ment to "In­spir­ing Bet­ter Choic­es for a Bet­ter World," the ANSA McAL Group has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Melanie Richards as head of sus­tain­abil­i­ty and so­cial in­vest­ment.

Dr Priya Mara­jh has been se­lect­ed as the in­ter­im chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the En­er­gy Cham­ber of T&T, step­ping in­to the role as the or­gan­i­sa­tion be­gins a lead­er­ship tran­si­tion fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of long-serv­ing pres­i­dent and CEO Dr Thack­wray Dri­ver.

Last week’s com­men­tary in this space, which was head­lined, 'How should re­tirees in­vest their life sav­ings?' start­ed off with a chance en­counter with a re­tired pub­lic ser­vant at the Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, ad­dressed some de­mo­graph­ic is­sues re­lat­ed to the pay­ment of Na­tion­al In­sur­ance pen­sions, and then looked at a com­men­tary writ­ten by Bourse Se­cu­ri­ties, head­lined ‘Is con­ser­v­a­tive in­vest­ing right for you?’and pub­lished in the T&T Guardian on Ju­ly 28, 2025.

When peo­ple in T&T think about mi­gra­tion, the same des­ti­na­tions usu­al­ly dom­i­nate the con­ver­sa­tion: the Unit­ed States, Cana­da, and the Unit­ed King­dom. These routes feel fa­mil­iar, but they have be­come in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to ac­cess. Visa back­logs, tighter im­mi­gra­tion rules, ris­ing liv­ing costs, and long pe­ri­ods of un­cer­tain­ty have made mi­gra­tion feel out of reach for many.

In ex­ec­u­tive spaces and board­rooms, a dif­fer­ent type of leader is emerg­ing. Hail the era of the cre­ative ex­ec­u­tive, where suc­cess­ful lead­ers are the in­di­vid­u­als who har­ness their artis­tic skills and com­bine them with tech­ni­cal com­pe­tence to cre­ate a po­tent lead­er­ship brew.

In to­day’s glob­al econ­o­my, coun­tries com­pete not on­ly through eco­nom­ic poli­cies and per­for­mance but in­creas­ing­ly through per­cep­tion. In­vestors, tourists, in­ter­na­tion­al stu­dents and glob­al busi­ness­es eval­u­ate des­ti­na­tions based on rep­u­ta­tion, sta­bil­i­ty, com­pet­i­tive­ness and op­por­tu­ni­ty. In that sense, coun­tries now op­er­ate much like brands.

“As a re­sult of the $1.9 bil­lion with­draw­al, the to­tal fund bal­ance de­clined from $28.09 bil­lion in 2024 to $27.36 bil­lion by June 30, 2025”.