Prob­a­bly the most dan­ger­ous man­date un­der the West­min­is­ter sys­tem is to have a Prime Min­is­ter is­sue an in­struc­tion to “get it done”. Giv­en that every min­is­ter in Gov­ern­ment owes their po­si­tion to the au­thor­i­ty of the Prime Min­is­ter, “get it done” with­out the prop­er frame­works and gov­er­nance struc­tures in place is a sure way to end up with mis­man­age­ment, waste and cor­rup­tion.

The T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) has an­nounced a ma­jor in­vest­ment mile­stone: the ma­tu­ri­ty of the Ca­lyp­so Macro In­dex Fund (CMIF).

For­mer pres­i­dent of the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) Ra­jiv Diptee is en­cour­ag­ing lo­cal en­tre­pre­neurs to seek for­eign mar­kets, but he is ad­vis­ing them that they must cre­ate world-class prod­ucts to en­able their en­try in­to those mar­kets.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine does not be­lieve that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor will crum­ble if it does not get gas from Venezuela.

For many, this may be con­sid­ered a for­eign con­cept or a Hol­ly­wood script. For Bren­don Mo­hammed, it’s re­al life.

Ja­maica’s Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion (FTC) says the sale of 100 per cent of Massy Dis­tri­b­u­tion (Ja­maica) to Caribbean Dis­tri­b­u­tion Part­ners (CPD), a sub­sidiary of T&T’s Agos­ti­ni Group, will cre­ate a mo­nop­oly in the sale of in­sulin in Ja­maica.

Agos­ti­ni has an­nounced that Nigel Camp­bell, who has served as group chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer (CFO), is ex­pect­ed to re­sign from his po­si­tion ef­fec­tive De­cem­ber 31, 2025.

Eco­nom­ic an­a­lyst Mar­i­ano Browne says T&T’s new­ly passed cryp­tocur­ren­cy leg­is­la­tion is “a con­ser­v­a­tive but nec­es­sary move” to bring dig­i­tal fi­nance un­der reg­u­la­to­ry over­sight.

AI in­no­va­tion is not a for­eign top­ic for Ramps Lo­gis­tics. The Cunu­pia-based com­pa­ny has been one of the ear­ly in­no­va­tors in us­ing the tech­nol­o­gy with sig­nif­i­cant suc­cess.

The Cen­tral Bank is reaf­firm­ing its com­mit­ment to im­prov­ing ef­fi­cien­cy and trans­paren­cy in the for­eign ex­change mar­ket, even as per­sis­tent de­mand-sup­ply im­bal­ances con­tin­ue to chal­lenge the sys­tem.

Ear­ly in the new year, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (T&T) en­er­gy in­dus­try will meet the dawn of a new era. On Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, the much-an­tic­i­pat­ed Car­bon Bor­der Ad­just­ment Mech­a­nism (CBAM), pre­sent­ed by the Eu­ro­pean Union (EU), takes ef­fect. CBAM is an EU pol­i­cy that places a car­bon cost on cer­tain im­port­ed goods to pre­vent “car­bon leak­age” and en­cour­age glob­al de­car­bon­i­sa­tion. Af­ter Mozam­bique, T&T is the sec­ond largest ex­porter of car­bon in­ten­sive prod­ucts to Eu­rope.

A pos­si­ble shift in the T&T Gov­ern­ment’s tra­di­tion­al trad­ing ties away from Cari­com in favour of new part­ners is gen­er­at­ing de­bates not on­ly in T&T but across the re­gion.