The road is not al­ways smooth for women en­tre­pre­neurs, but sur­round your­self with peo­ple who be­lieve in you, nev­er let any­one tell you that you can’t do it and God will di­rect your path to suc­cess.

Per­for­mance or on-de­mand bonds have been de­scribed as the lifeblood of com­merce and are a com­mon fea­ture in Re­quests for Pro­pos­als (RF­Ps) is­sued by lo­cal pub­lic bod­ies and state agen­cies. A per­for­mance bond is a sure­ty giv­en by a third par­ty (usu­al­ly a bank or in­sur­ance com­pa­ny) to guar­an­tee the com­ple­tion of an­oth­er’s con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions. The amount payable un­der a per­for­mance bond can some­times range from 2 to10 per cent of the val­ue of the un­der­ly­ing con­tract.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon, met with a of­fi­cials from both Chi­na and Ghana on Fri­day.

The Cen­tral Bank has reg­is­tered Massy Re­mit­tance Ser­vices (Trinidad) Ltd (MRSTL) on March 3, 2025 to car­ry on the busi­ness of an e-mon­ey is­suer in this coun­try us­ing its dig­i­tal wal­let app; WID­IT.

Come April 7, bmo­bile's post-paid cus­tomers who are on its lega­cy plan, are be­ing re­quest­ed to pay 14.61 per cent more to be up­grad­ed to its Ex­treme Plus plan, which the mo­bile ser­vice provider says of­fers more val­ue.

Wayne Dass was named yes­ter­day as the gen­er­al man­ag­er of the Na­tion­al In­vest­ment Fund Hold­ing Com­pa­ny (NIF), the first time the sev­en-year old com­pa­ny has em­ployed a se­nior of­fi­cer.

Four com­mer­cial banks head­quar­tered in Port of Spain de­clared to­tal, au­dit­ed af­ter-tax prof­its of $4.78 bil­lion in their 2024 fi­nan­cial years.

Claire Gomez-Miller, char­tered cer­ti­fied ac­coun­tant and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of British Amer­i­can Com­pa­ny Trinidad (BAT), is urg­ing cor­po­rate lead­ers who move from the pri­vate to pub­lic sec­tor to trans­fer best prac­tices from the busi­ness world.

Plat­inum-sell­ing Amer­i­can singer/song­writer and Ten to One Rum co-own­er, Cia­ra Wil­son, is ea­ger to ex­pand the brand’s reach in the Caribbean mar­ket.

Ja­maican con­glom­er­ate, GraceKennedy Lim­it­ed (GK) yes­ter­day re­port­ed prof­it af­ter tax to­talling J$8.9 bil­lion (US$57 mil­lion), for its fi­nan­cial year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024.

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald J. Trump’s re­newed ‘Amer­i­ca First’ trade pol­i­cy is a must-watch de­vel­op­ment for the Caribbean giv­en the US’s role as the re­gion’s pri­ma­ry trad­ing part­ner – both as an ex­port mar­ket and an im­port source.

En­er­gy econ­o­mist Pro­fes­sor Fran­cis­co Monal­di is warn­ing that the an­nounce­ment by the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion last week that it would ter­mi­nate the li­cence of US oil and gas multi­na­tion­al Chevron in Venezuela’s en­er­gy sec­tor could neg­a­tive­ly im­pact Venezuela’s Drag­on gas deal with T&T.