Econ­o­mist Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon be­lieves that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar should use her meet­ing with US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on March 7 to dis­cuss ar­eas like en­er­gy and for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment (FDI).

Car­ni­val 2026 de­liv­ered high­er ear­ly-sea­son ar­rivals, strong ho­tel per­for­mance and record par­tic­i­pa­tion de­spite a com­pressed cal­en­dar, while av­er­age vis­i­tor spend dipped slight­ly.

The Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee is con­duct­ing an ex­am­i­na­tion of the state’s ac­qui­si­tion of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals as it re­lates to the cur­rent process­es ap­plic­a­ble to its im­por­ta­tion and ap­proval. This is very good since pub­lic pro­cure­ment should al­ways be brought un­der scruti­ny. Al­ready the com­mit­tee has re­vealed in its find­ings that there is a dis­con­nect be­tween the list of ap­proved drugs that Cus­toms of­fi­cials work with and the lat­est list of ap­proved drugs is­sued by the Min­istry of Health. There is cer­tain­ly a struc­tur­al prob­lem here that could be solved.

A mal­ware at­tack has de­layed au­dits in­to the fi­nan­cial state­ments of Na­tion­al Quar­ries Com­pa­ny.

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En­er­gy prices rose sharply yes­ter­day as dis­rup­tions to tanker traf­fic through the Strait of Hor­muz and dam­age to pro­duc­tion fa­cil­i­ties raised un­cer­tain­ty about how US and Is­raeli at­tacks on Iran would af­fect sup­ply to the world econ­o­my.

New geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions are al­ready rip­pling through glob­al mar­kets, and the Caribbean is watch­ing close­ly.

This was a com­mon as­sess­ment from var­i­ous busi­ness groups when asked for their per­spec­tive on the lat­est de­c­la­ra­tion of a state of emer­gency in the coun­try.

Sub­sidy costs and na­tion­al en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty are un­der the mi­cro­scope as en­er­gy ex­perts An­tho­ny Paul and Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan warn that the es­ca­lat­ing war in the Mid­dle East—specif­i­cal­ly last week­end’s mil­i­tary strikes by the US and Is­rael against Iran—has placed T&T in a pre­car­i­ous eco­nom­ic po­si­tion.

Agos­ti­ni Ltd has tak­en an­oth­er cal­cu­lat­ed step in its re­gion­al ex­pan­sion strat­e­gy, fi­nal­is­ing the ac­qui­si­tion of Massy Dis­tri­b­u­tion (Ja­maica) Ltd in a trans­ac­tion that sig­nif­i­cant­ly strength­ens its foot­print in the Ja­maican dis­tri­b­u­tion mar­ket.

Af­ter many years of be­ing la­beled a Ti­i­da na­tion, in the past year, there has been a run­ning joke that the Hon­da Vezel hy­brid SUV is the new na­tion­al ve­hi­cle of T&T.

You may have heard of the in­fa­mous Amer­i­can “hot cof­fee” law­suit. A cus­tomer of a fast food chain placed a cof­fee cup be­tween her legs while she tried to re­move the lid. The cup spilled and hot cof­fee ran in­to her lap, burn­ing her skin. She sued and a ju­ry award­ed her al­most US$3 mil­lion in dam­ages. Many have held up this case as an ex­am­ple of friv­o­lous lit­i­ga­tion and com­pen­sa­tion cul­ture run amok. But, does it re­al­ly paint a re­al­is­tic pic­ture of the type of award that a claimant in a per­son­al in­jury claim can ex­pect to re­ceive? What con­sid­er­a­tions fac­tored in­to that US$3 mil­lion award?