From fill­ing a gap or pro­vid­ing so­lu­tions to the com­mu­ni­ty to es­tab­lish­ing a coun­try­wide name, Mus­lim busi­ness­es have achieved great suc­cess while pass­ing the reins from one gen­er­a­tion to the next.

Fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy is a crit­i­cal life skill that pro­tects young peo­ple from so­phis­ti­cat­ed dig­i­tal scams and builds na­tion­al eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty, Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai said, as he warned sec­ondary school stu­dents that fraud­u­lent schemes promis­ing high re­turns—such as turn­ing $500 in­to $2,000 in two weeks—are in­creas­ing­ly tar­get­ting youth via so­cial me­dia and di­rect mes­sages.

The lat­est En­er­gy Ser­vices Sec­tor Sur­vey (ES­SS), con­duct­ed by the En­er­gy Cham­ber, re­veals a de­cline in both the vol­ume and val­ue of busi­ness dur­ing the first quar­ter of 2026. Ac­cord­ing to the find­ings, 60 per cent of re­spon­dents re­port­ed that the val­ue of their busi­ness was low­er than nor­mal, while 56 per cent in­di­cat­ed that their vol­ume of busi­ness fell be­low typ­i­cal lev­els.

With ex­ports ac­count­ing for more than 75 per cent of to­tal sales and ship­ments reach­ing about 25 coun­tries, KC Con­fec­tionery con­tin­ues to po­si­tion it­self as a steady for­eign ex­change earn­er for T&T, even as do­mes­tic eco­nom­ic con­di­tions fluc­tu­ate.

In the hu­mid, in­dus­tri­al heart­land of 1960’s Trinidad, the air was of­ten thick with the pun­gent, metal­lic tang of burn­ing elec­trodes.

The av­er­age small busi­ness starts with a sol­id plan, a cash flow pro­jec­tion and, most times, a start-up loan from a fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion.

Mar­itime trans­port re­mains the back­bone of the glob­al trad­ing sys­tem. Ac­cord­ing to the Unit­ed Na­tions Con­fer­ence on Trade and De­vel­op­ment (UNC­TAD), more than 80 per cent of glob­al mer­chan­dise trade by vol­ume is car­ried by sea, un­der­scor­ing the es­sen­tial role of ship­ping in con­nect­ing economies, sup­ply­ing in­dus­tries, and de­liv­er­ing every­day goods to con­sumers.

ANSA Mer­chant Bank Ltd (AM­BL) yes­ter­day de­clared af­ter-tax prof­it of $242.19 mil­lion for the year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, a 49.3 per cent in­crease com­pared to 2024.

The Min­istry of Fi­nance (MOF), through the In­land Rev­enue Di­vi­sion (IRD), will shift to a ful­ly dig­i­tal sys­tem for fil­ing Amuse­ment Gam­ing Tax re­turns from April 1.

In an era when many busi­ness­es are tight­en­ing their belts and eye­ing the bot­tom line with cau­tion, the team be­hind Tom­my’s is ex­pand­ing.

For many en­tre­pre­neurs in T&T, sus­tain­abil­i­ty can feel like a lux­u­ry re­served for large cor­po­ra­tions with deep pock­ets. Small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es (SMEs) of­ten op­er­ate with lim­it­ed re­sources while fac­ing grow­ing ex­pec­ta­tions to adopt en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly and so­cial­ly re­spon­si­ble prac­tices.

Guardian Me­dia Ltd (GML) yes­ter­day re­port­ed an af­ter-tax prof­it of $2.25 mil­lion for the quar­ter end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, a 66 per cent de­cline com­pared to the $6.74 mil­lion the me­dia com­pa­ny earned for the same quar­ter in 2024.