De­spite see­ing long-stand­ing Tu­na­puna busi­ness Pat&Max Ltd move from its East­ern Main Road home to the Trinci­ty In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, busi­ness stake­hold­ers from the area are hail­ing the move as a suc­cess giv­en the cur­rent eco­nom­ic con­di­tions of the coun­try.

The Cen­tral Bank of T&T (CBTT) is prepar­ing to roll out sweep­ing changes to the coun­try’s cur­ren­cy, fi­nan­cial reg­u­la­tion and pay­ments ecosys­tem, as it tran­si­tions in­to a new five-year strate­gic cy­cle aimed at mod­ernising the fi­nan­cial sys­tem and strength­en­ing eco­nom­ic re­silience.

East­er re­mains one of the most im­por­tant pe­ri­ods for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, and this year the out­look re­flects strong de­mand across both is­lands.

In no­tices post­ed to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change and pub­lished in the me­dia, Am­bi­ca Bisses­sar was named Head, Re­tail Bank­ing Caribbean South & East, while In­gram Bain was an­nounced as Di­rec­tor, Com­pli­ance, Caribbean South & East. Both ap­point­ments took ef­fect on Wednes­day, April 1, 2026.

Bar­ba­di­an na­tion­al Kather­ine Payne has been ap­point­ed Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Dig­i­cel (Bar­ba­dos) Ltd.

The Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB) has ap­proved a US$10 mil­lion line of cred­it aimed at ex­pand­ing ac­cess to fi­nanc­ing for small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es (SMEs) in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

T&T’s po­si­tion as a “first mover” in ac­cess­ing Venezue­lan nat­ur­al gas could prove crit­i­cal to both its own en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty and wider Caribbean in­te­gra­tion, in­de­pen­dent con­sul­tant Ver­li­er Quan-Vie has said.

Calls are in­ten­si­fy­ing for the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism to ur­gent­ly re­store the Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion, as econ­o­mist and for­mer chair­man Dr Ronald Ramkissoon warns that con­tin­ued de­lays are un­der­min­ing the coun­try’s busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment at a crit­i­cal junc­ture.
Ramkissoon, in an in­ter­view yes­ter­day with Guardian Me­dia, cau­tioned that the ab­sence of a func­tion­ing com­mis­sion risks erod­ing in­vestor con­fi­dence and weak­en­ing the frame­work for fair com­pe­ti­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly at a time when T&T needs to strength­en its eco­nom­ic re­silience.
“One would have thought the in­com­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion would have made it eas­i­er to do busi­ness when the reg­u­la­to­ry en­vi­ron­ment is not be­ing put in place.

The South­ern Caribbean and Guyana’s ship­ping and lo­gis­tics sec­tor was giv­en a sig­nif­i­cant boost last week af­ter PAS Car­go Guyana of­fi­cial­ly opened its new off-port bond­ed fa­cil­i­ty at the Rome Cor­ri­dor, in­tro­duc­ing what is ex­pect­ed to be the first 30-minute car­go clear­ance guar­an­tee in the South Amer­i­can state.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Mort­gage Bank (TTMB) has un­veiled three new mort­gage plans fol­low­ing re­search in­to mod­ern de­mands of prospec­tive home­own­ers and af­ford­able hous­ing.

A sharp clash has emerged over the man­age­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go NGL (TTNGL), with chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen de­fend­ing the com­pa­ny’s re­cent de­ci­sions, while ac­cus­ing the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion of pre­sid­ing over years of val­ue de­struc­tion tied to Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd (PPG­PL).

While en­cour­aged by the in­creased de­mand for elec­tric ve­hi­cles (EVs) in Trinidad and To­ba­go, brand man­ag­er and team leader for BYD T&T, Ker­ri-Ann Seer­at­tan, is warn­ing the pub­lic against pur­chas­ing EVs from unau­tho­rised deal­ers.