A sta­tis­tic re­leased re­cent­ly should stop every pol­i­cy­mak­er, busi­ness leader and cit­i­zen in their tracks.

A stark warn­ing is emerg­ing over T&T’s fis­cal tra­jec­to­ry, with econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James cau­tion­ing that be­hind mod­est head­line fig­ures lie an econ­o­my strug­gling to gen­er­ate mean­ing­ful growth while tak­ing on in­creas­ing­ly cost­ly debt.

The ris­ing de­mand for home im­prove­ment and self-care has dri­ven US man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­ny Kohler Co to bet big on T&T and the Caribbean mar­ket.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Kennedy Swarats­ingh host­ed an in­tro­duc­to­ry vis­it with re­cent­ly in­stalled In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund mis­sion chief to T&T, Mag­nus Sax­e­gaard on Thurs­day to dis­cuss T&T’s eco­nom­ic re­silience.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's diplo­mat­ic re­la­tion­ship with Pana­ma was cel­e­brat­edear­li­er this month at Queen’s Hall, Port of Spain.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Fi­nance Cor­po­ra­tion (IFC), a mem­ber of the World Bank Group, last week dis­closed it will in­vest up to US$15 mil­lion in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Re­silience Fund (CCRF) Debt sub fund.

An agree­ment to de­vel­op dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion train­ing cen­tres was se­cured at the ITU Re­gion­al De­vel­op­ment Fo­rum for the Amer­i­c­as (RDF-AMS) and the Re­gion­al Work­shop on Reg­u­la­to­ry In­no­va­tion and Sand­box in Carta­ge­na, Colom­bia, on Wednes­day, June 17, 2026.

Piz­za Hut, the 68-year-old chain that has long strug­gled with grow­ing com­pe­ti­tion and out­dat­ed restau­rants, will be sold for US$2.7 bil­lion by par­ent com­pa­ny Yum Brands.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine is warn­ing that T&T’s rev­enues may de­crease in the com­ing months as en­er­gy prices are on the de­cline due to eas­ing ten­sions in the Mid­dle East.

Glob­al leader in dig­i­tal pay­ments, Visa has an­nounced a ma­jor lead­er­ship shift in its Caribbean op­er­a­tions, nam­ing Jorge Salum as vice-pres­i­dent and coun­try man­ag­er for Greater Caribbean Mar­kets, a new­ly-cre­at­ed role aimed at strength­en­ing the com­pa­ny’s re­gion­al foot­print as dig­i­tal pay­ments ac­cel­er­ate.

Dur­ing Colm Im­bert’s nine years and six months as T&T min­is­ter of fi­nance—he served in that po­si­tion from Sep­tem­ber 2015 to March 2025—few of his col­leagues in the then Op­po­si­tion chal­lenged his pre­sen­ta­tion of da­ta and sta­tis­tics, ei­ther dur­ing his bud­get pre­sen­ta­tions or dur­ing de­bates in Par­lia­ment.

In­flu­encers have be­come a huge part of brand mar­ket­ing, with their ser­vices cost­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in the Caribbean. And Dar­ren Hosang-Rud­der and his team at Restayge be­lieve the use of in­flu­encers as a mar­ket­ing tool is on­ly go­ing to in­crease.