The cam­paign for the po­si­tion of sec­re­tary gen­er­al of the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS) has been taint­ed by mis­in­for­ma­tion and po­lit­i­cal dis­tor­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly on so­cial me­dia.

On March 3, 2022, Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, told the me­dia at a news con­fer­ence at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre that Cab­i­net had de­cid­ed, on that day to set up a sub-com­mit­tee look in­to 51 per cent state-owned TSTT.

Trinidad and To­ba­go needs to put prop­er poli­cies in place to trans­form the foun­da­tions of the Car­ni­val ac­tiv­i­ties, un­der­writ­ing their evo­lu­tion in­to a com­pet­i­tive in­dus­try in the glob­al mar­ket­place.

Car­ni­val 2025 is be­ing held un­der a lit­tle bit of a cloud. On De­cem­ber 30, 2024, the Gov­ern­ment de­clared a na­tion­wide State of Emer­gency (SoE). Two weeks lat­er, on Jan­u­ary 13, 2025, Par­lia­ment ex­tend­ed the SoE by three months.

With the in­flux of vis­i­tors and tourists in T&T and peo­ple not want­i­ng to dri­ve to var­i­ous fetes and oth­er events for the Car­ni­val, ride-hail­ing com­pa­nies are see­ing a ma­jor spike in their ser­vice.

De­spite the threat by the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion to end all oil and nat­ur­al gas agree­ments ap­proved by the pre­vi­ous US gov­ern­ment for Venezuela, a top econ­o­mist in that coun­try re­mains op­ti­mistic that all is not lost for Venezuela, the coun­try with the world’s largest re­serves of oil.

It is es­ti­mat­ed that dur­ing the up­com­ing Car­ni­val long week­end, the Mara­cas Beach Fa­cil­i­ty will at­tract ap­prox­i­mate­ly 15,000 vis­i­tors.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter and act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says it is con­cern­ing that a for­mer prime min­is­ter as­pir­ing to lead T&T again “would con­tin­u­al­ly at­tempt to mis­lead the pop­u­la­tion” (sic) and in­di­cate to po­ten­tial in­vestors that she and her par­ty would not ho­n­our le­gal agree­ments that may be en­tered in­to for the ben­e­fit of cit­i­zens.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber is ready to col­lab­o­rate close­ly with Oan­do Plc to en­sure the safe re­sump­tion of op­er­a­tions at the Guaracara/Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

The T&T Air­line Pi­lots’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) wants Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to ur­gent­ly in­ter­vene in their on­go­ing salary dis­pute with Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL).

At Tues­day’s sod-turn­ing cer­e­mo­ny for Nu­trim­ix’s An­i­mal Feed and Pet Food plant on the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley ex­pressed con­cern about the slow pace of reg­u­la­to­ry ap­provals for ma­jor in­vest­ments in T&T.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­vest­ment Paula Gopee-Scoon says 88 non-en­er­gy man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies in­vest­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2.27 bil­lion in their ex­ist­ing op­er­a­tions and cre­at­ed over 1,800 ad­di­tion­al jobs.