The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­tries (TTC­SI) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to im­ple­ment a “smart pack­age of mea­sures” in the up­com­ing na­tion­al bud­get to help lo­cal ser­vice com­pa­nies ex­pand in­to in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets and gen­er­ate more for­eign ex­change.

Trinidad and To­ba­go now has a for­mal frame­work for is­su­ing green and oth­er la­belled bonds, cre­at­ing an­oth­er fi­nanc­ing op­tion for cli­mate and de­vel­op­ment projects.

First Cit­i­zens Group has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Shar­da Nanan as its new chief in­ter­nal au­di­tor, ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 21, 2026, while con­firm­ing that the act­ing ap­point­ment of Ju­lia Maria Daniel has come to an end.

Busi­ness groups have backed ef­forts to over­haul Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pub­lic pro­cure­ment sys­tem, but are warn­ing that greater speed and flex­i­bil­i­ty can­not come at the ex­pense of trans­paren­cy, com­pe­ti­tion and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Caribbean Air­lines has com­plet­ed its au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments for 2017, 2018 and 2019, clear­ing three years from a nine-year au­dit back­log as the ma­jor­i­ty state-owned car­ri­er moves to bring its fi­nan­cial re­port­ing up to date.

T&T’s eco­nom­ic chal­lenges are in­creas­ing­ly show­ing up in gro­cery carts and su­per­mar­ket aisles, where con­sumers are buy­ing small­er quan­ti­ties and care­ful­ly man­ag­ing every dol­lar spent, says com­men­ta­tor Mar­i­ano Browne.

The Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) has elect­ed Kevin Kissoon of Tru Valu Su­per­mar­kets as its new pres­i­dent for the 2026–2028 term.

Cor­po­rate sec­re­tary of ma­jor­i­ty state-owned TSTT, Vive­ka Par­gass is seek­ing a re­trac­tion and apol­o­gy from the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) over al­le­ga­tions made pub­licly about her, with her at­tor­ney warn­ing that le­gal ac­tion could fol­low if the union does not re­spond with­in 14 days.

Every trip to the gro­cery can serve as a re­minder of how vul­ner­a­ble T&T re­mains to glob­al sup­ply chain shocks.

As con­cerns about ris­ing costs for con­sumers con­tin­ue to grow, a team from Ramps Lo­gis­tics is head­ing to the Break­bulk Amer­i­c­as con­fer­ence in Hous­ton next week to ex­plore op­tions to ease that bur­den.

The planned re­turn of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) to Venezuela soon is be­ing wel­comed by trav­el in­dus­try op­er­a­tors, with trav­el agen­cies say­ing the di­rect air link should make trav­el be­tween T&T and Venezuela more con­ve­nient for both busi­ness and leisure pas­sen­gers.

Cari­com is mov­ing clos­er to a re­gion­al pay­ment sys­tem that could al­low con­sumers and busi­ness­es to make in­stant cross-bor­der pay­ments in lo­cal cur­ren­cies, cut­ting trans­ac­tion costs and re­duc­ing re­liance on for­eign re­serve cur­ren­cies.