The liq­uida­tor of Cli­co In­vest­ment Bank (CIB) has lost a law­suit seek­ing to hold three for­mer ex­ec­u­tives and board mem­bers ac­count­able for the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion’s col­lapse al­most two decades ago. 

De­spite a chal­leng­ing op­er­at­ing en­vi­ron­ment marked by in­creased du­ties, glob­al tar­iff ad­just­ments and evolv­ing con­sumer trends, An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­its of $153.32 mil­lion for the year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, a 6.27 per cent in­crease over its 2024 per­for­mance.

In the heart of Plum Mi­tan, San­gre Grande, where the hori­zon is de­fined by the vi­brant green of veg­etable canopies and the air car­ries the scent of damp earth and ripen­ing pro­duce, a lega­cy is be­ing cul­ti­vat­ed.

So­ca star Nailah Black­man per­formed her hits, while chil­dren played in the mi­ni-play­ground near­by as their par­ents pur­chased food and drink.

The war waged by the Unit­ed States and Is­rael against Iran could neg­a­tive­ly im­pact liv­ing stan­dards in T&T, as it could re­sult in high­er food prices, in­creas­es in the price os gaso­line and pos­si­bly an ero­sion of the coun­try’s for­eign re­serves.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she held meet­ings with US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio and Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau in Flori­da last week­end to dis­cuss fur­ther en­gage­ment in the re­gion - in­clud­ing de­vel­op­ments in­volv­ing “our neigh­bour next door, Venezuela.”

Unit­ed States chargée d’af­faires in T&T, Dr Jenifer Nei­d­hart de Or­tiz, yes­ter­day com­mend­ed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for pub­licly chal­leng­ing au­thor­i­tar­i­an lead­er­ship in the re­gion and speak­ing on be­half of cit­i­zens liv­ing un­der re­stric­tive gov­ern­ments.

Con­cerns over the lead­er­ship and lim­it­ed pay­out to share­hold­ers by Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Ser­vices of Trinidad and Toba­go (TSTT) were brought to the fore dur­ing the an­nu­al meet­ing of ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Ltd (NEL)yes­ter­day.

Whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) yes­ter­day said it had com­plet­ed and ex­e­cut­ed a new gas sales con­tract with Point Lisas Ni­tro­gen Ltd (PLNL) that guar­an­tees the con­tin­ued sup­ply of nat­ur­al gas to PLNL.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Kennedy Swarats­ingh is in Paraguay to lead T&T’s del­e­ga­tion at the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank’s (IDB) an­nu­al meet­ings.

CIBC Caribbean Bank yes­ter­day de­clared net in­come of US$50.29 mil­lion for the quar­ter end­ed Jan­u­ary 31, 2026, a de­cline of 9.80 per cent com­pared to the US$55.75 mil­lion the com­pa­ny earned for the same quar­ter in 2025.

Last Sun­day af­ter­noon, I was sit­ting at a ta­ble just out­side the restau­rant at the far end of the Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park in To­ba­go, when I was ap­proached by a man who asked me if I was Wil­son. I said I was and asked him his name, which he gave me. He in­di­cat­ed that he is a re­tired pub­lic ser­vant, who knew my name from read­ing this col­umn. He told me he had re­ceived his lump sum for his years of ser­vice and al­so gets a month­ly pen­sion, which he said did not go far enough be­cause the cost of liv­ing was ris­ing, but his pen­sion was not.