In the past five years, Aven­ta, the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal dis­tri­b­u­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing arm of com­pa­nies with­in the Agos­ti­ni Group, has pushed for­ward with ex­pan­sion across the re­gion.

As a re­sult of the US cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, the sit­u­a­tion in the South Amer­i­can coun­try re­mains “un­cer­tain” and there is like­ly to be an im­pact on T&T and the Caribbean econ­o­my in the fore­see­able fu­ture.

Across Trinidad and To­ba­go, the ris­ing tide of in­fla­tion is hit­ting hard­est at the din­ner ta­ble. For food es­tab­lish­ments, the chal­lenge is even steep­er: ab­sorb­ing re­lent­less cost in­creas­es while keep­ing meals af­ford­able for cus­tomers who re­ly on them.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice has re­leased the Con­sumer Price In­dex (CPI) for De­cem­ber 2025, show­ing a mod­est eas­ing in in­fla­tion and large­ly sta­ble prices across the econ­o­my at the end of the year.

In a meet­ing aimed at shap­ing the fu­ture of T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor, Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and Peren­co ex­ec­u­tives dis­cussed strate­gies to boost op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy, dri­ve in­no­va­tion, and se­cure long-term in­vest­ment.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC) yes­ter­day an­nounced the suc­cess­ful ex­e­cu­tion of a new gas sup­ply agree­ment with ma­jor up­stream sup­pli­er, US en­er­gy com­pa­ny EOG Re­sources’ sub­sidiary EOG Re­sources Trinidad.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie yes­ter­day laid in Par­lia­ment the long-de­layed Re­port of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the col­lapse of the CL Fi­nan­cial group and the Hin­du Cred­it Union, re­veal­ing that the State spent ap­prox­i­mate­ly $28 bil­lion res­cu­ing CL Fi­nan­cial and its sub­sidiaries, with a fur­ther $3 bil­lion to $4 bil­lion spent in sub­se­quent years on le­gal, ac­count­ing and ad­min­is­tra­tive mat­ters linked to the col­lapse.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo an­nounced this week that the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to bor­row up to US$1 bil­lion on the in­ter­na­tion­al cap­i­tal mar­ket.

A man has won a law­suit against his sis­ter over her reneg­ing on a promise to re­sell him a prop­er­ty he had sold her.

Elec­tron­ic Lot­to agents and the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) are at odds over plans to in­tro­duce Sun­day gam­ing, with both sides out­lin­ing sharply dif­fer­ent po­si­tions on se­cu­ri­ty, con­sul­ta­tion and rev­enue as the Feb­ru­ary 8 roll­out ap­proach­es.

Long-suf­fer­ing share­hold­ers of pub­licly list­ed TTNGL were giv­en hope of a turn­around in their for­tunes yes­ter­day, when the com­pa­ny an­nounced a pro­pos­al to re­duce its stat­ed cap­i­tal ac­count by $2.2 bil­lion.

An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd is ac­cel­er­at­ing its push on­to the glob­al stage, strength­en­ing its in­ter­na­tion­al foot­print while mod­ernising op­er­a­tions and prod­uct of­fer­ings to se­cure sus­tain­able growth for decades to come.