The Caribbean is liv­ing through a mo­ment of ris­ing geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sion. As the Unit­ed States in­ten­si­fies pres­sure on the Maduro gov­ern­ment in Venezuela, the rip­ples reach Cari­com shores fast. None of these coun­tries chose this con­fronta­tion, yet each of them is forced to nav­i­gate its con­se­quences.

An­gos­tu­ra is en­joy­ing healthy sales this Christ­mas sea­son, thanks to strate­gic price re­duc­tions that have res­onat­ed strong­ly with con­sumers.

“Workover” is a term used in the oil and gas in­dus­try to de­scribe the main­te­nance and re­pair of ex­ist­ing wells. These in­ter­ven­tions are un­der­tak­en to re­store pro­duc­tion in de­clin­ing wells or to restart those that have ceased pro­duc­ing en­tire­ly. As such, they are a vi­tal com­po­nent of the oil and gas well life­cy­cle.

On Tues­day, Sagi­cor Fi­nan­cial Com­pa­ny (SFC) an­nounced the merg­er of its two com­pa­nies in the re­gion—Sagi­cor Group Ja­maica and Sagi­cor Life Inc—bring­ing to­geth­er a Ja­maican com­pa­ny with a T&T in­cor­po­rat­ed en­ti­ty un­der a new, sin­gle Caribbean hold­ing struc­ture.

Ma­jor busi­ness groups and shop­pers are com­mend­ing the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for launch­ing Op­er­a­tion Fes­tive Shield, a high-vis­i­bil­i­ty crime plan that has seen an im­me­di­ate in­crease in pa­trols ahead of Christ­mas and Car­ni­val 2026.

Sagi­cor Fi­nan­cial Com­pa­ny Ltd (SFC) yes­ter­day an­nounced that two com­pa­nies it con­trols in the Caribbean are to merge, bring­ing Sagi­cor Group Ja­maica and Sagi­cor Life Inc un­der a sin­gle Caribbean hold­ing struc­ture.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) yes­ter­day an­nounced the re­lease of the con­sumer price in­dex (CPI) for No­vem­ber 2025, high­light­ing a mod­est in­crease in in­fla­tion and no­table shifts across sev­er­al cat­e­gories of con­sumer spend­ing.

Gov­ern­ment achieved its ob­jec­tive yes­ter­day of elect­ing sev­en of its nom­i­nees to serve as di­rec­tors on the board of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL), the largest fi­nan­cial ser­vices com­pa­ny in the Caribbean re­gion.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is in Pana­ma City to at­tend meet­ings of the board of di­rec­tors and the XLVI Au­dit Com­mit­tee of CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, which be­gan yes­ter­day and con­tin­ues to­day.

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Karen Nunez-Tesheira says last week’s ter­mi­na­tion of Navin Dook­er­an as CEO of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of T&T (Ex­im­bank) may sig­nal the im­pend­ing end to con­ces­sion­al forex fi­nanc­ing for non-ex­port sec­tors, un­der­scor­ing the need for strate­gic ad­just­ments in eco­nom­ic pol­i­cy.

Few in­dus­tries in T&T op­er­ate with mar­gins as thin and ex­pec­ta­tions as high as Car­ni­val. For mas­quer­ade bands, where the prod­uct is not sim­ply a cos­tum,e but an all-in­clu­sive, all-im­mer­sive ex­pe­ri­ence, every com­po­nent now sits un­der scruti­ny fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s 100 per cent hike in cus­toms and ex­cise du­ties on al­co­hol and to­bac­co prod­ucts.

T&T’s on­go­ing for­eign ex­change (forex) short­age, while pre­sent­ing im­me­di­ate chal­lenges like de­layed pay­ments and price fluc­tu­a­tions, can be strate­gi­cal­ly mit­i­gat­ed by shift­ing pro­cure­ment fo­cus to­ward the do­mes­tic econ­o­my.