The post read, “The loss of Ms. Daisy is im­mea­sur­able, for she was a vi­sion­ary leader and a benev­o­lent soul. Ms. Daisy lives on in our hearts.”

En­er­gy econ­o­mist Fran­cis­co Monal­di is hop­ing that eco­nom­ics trump pol­i­tics at the end of day and T&T’s en­er­gy deals with Venezuela will sur­vive, de­spite the po­lit­i­cal un­cer­tain­ty in T&T, Venezuela and the US.

On De­cem­ber 17, 2024, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) post­ed, on its web­site, a cir­cu­lar let­ter to re­port­ing is­suers, bro­ker deal­ers, in­vest­ment ad­vis­ers, un­der­writ­ers and self-reg­u­la­to­ry or­gan­i­sa­tions reg­is­tered un­der the Se­cu­ri­ties Act 2012.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert said the coun­try's di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion at­tempts are be­ing recog­nised, fol­low­ing the re­cent coun­try rat­ing af­firmed by in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency Moody's.

In a no­tice post­ed on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock ex­change web­site, Agos­ti­ni’s re­port­ed that Sinanan’s ap­point­ment to the group’s board of di­rec­tors took ef­fect from Jan­u­ary 6, 2025.

Ja­maica’s NCB Fi­nan­cial Group (NCBFG) yes­ter­day an­nounced the ap­point­ment of for­mer Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior man­ag­er, Arvin­der Bharath, to its board of di­rec­tors on Jan­u­ary 2, 2025.

The Port of Brighton has be­come the first port in T&T—and the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com)—to achieve Eco­Ports PERS (Port En­vi­ron­men­tal Re­view Sys­tem) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

T&T is us­ing an in­creas­ing pro­por­tion of its to­tal nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty. The per­cent­age of to­tal nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion used in the pro­duc­tion of elec­tric­i­ty in­creased from 7.1 per cent in 2018 to 11.2 per cent in the first eight months of 2024.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's pre­mier busi­ness groups say they are ready to work with En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young af­ter MPs of the rul­ing Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chose him to be the next Prime Min­is­ter.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­sul­tant Garvin Heer­ah be­lieves that For­eign Di­rect In­vest­ment (FDI) and tourism ar­rivals to T&T could be neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ed giv­en the bad press that T&T has re­ceived in re­cent days, since Mon­day’s an­nounce­ment of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) to deal with T&T’s spi­ralling crime rate.

Own­ers and op­er­a­tors of sports stores and gyms are pleased that the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance has made good on his bud­get promise to make sport­ing equip­ment ex­empt from cus­toms du­ty, VAT and the on­line pur­chase tax.

Lo­cal con­tent cre­ator Cer­ti­fied Samp­son has con­firmed he has plans to take full ad­van­tage of the mo­men­tum of his re­tail ice cream busi­ness, Cer­ti­fied Scoop, by ex­pand­ing across the Caribbean.