Con­ve­nience re­tail chain Presto has of­fi­cial­ly closed its Grand Bazaar out­let, a move the com­pa­ny de­scribes as part of a broad­er strat­e­gy to en­hance its cus­tomer ex­pe­ri­ence and strength­en its na­tion­al pres­ence.

Share­hold­ers of Unilever Caribbean Ltd will re­ceive a div­i­dend pay­out of $4.56 per share on De­cem­ber 15, com­pris­ing an in­ter­im div­i­dend of $0.38 and a spe­cial div­i­dend of $4.18.

De­spite the in­tro­duc­tion of a visa re­quire­ment for T&T na­tion­als to trav­el to the Unit­ed King­dom, trade be­tween the coun­tries is still strong, with trade cross­ing £1 bil­lion be­tween the coun­tries from Ju­ly 2024 and June 2025.

The in­ter­na­tion­al mar­itime sec­tor is a vi­tal en­gine for glob­al trade, yet it is re­spon­si­ble for ap­prox­i­mate­ly three per cent of glob­al green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions, par­tic­u­lar­ly CO2. This vol­ume is sig­nif­i­cant, ex­ceed­ing, for ex­am­ple, three times the to­tal an­nu­al emis­sions of Trinidad and To­ba­go. The es­sen­tial move­ment of goods via sea comes with a heavy car­bon foot­print that con­tributes di­rect­ly to cli­mate change.

Chi­na’s re­cent crack­down on in­flu­encer cul­ture might seem dis­tant, but it ex­pos­es a truth that hits close to home for T&T: in­flu­ence with­out cred­i­bil­i­ty is noise. The move has reignit­ed a glob­al con­ver­sa­tion that our small, dig­i­tal­ly con­nect­ed mar­kets must not ig­nore.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has or­dered an im­me­di­ate re­view of Liq­ue­fied Pe­tro­le­um Gas (cook­ing gas) safe­ty pro­to­cols fol­low­ing a se­ries of ex­plo­sions and fires linked to res­i­den­tial LPG cylin­ders.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned na­tion­al car­ri­er Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL), has been named the 2025 In­ter­na­tion­al­ly Known…T&T Owned Com­pa­ny of the Year.

The path to en­dur­ing or­gan­i­sa­tion­al re­silience be­gins with lead­er­ship that pri­ori­tis­es a ro­bust Health, Safe­ty, Se­cu­ri­ty, and En­vi­ron­ment (HSSE) cul­ture—a prin­ci­ple that took cen­tre stage at the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of T&T’s (Am­cham T&T) 2025 HSSE Con­fer­ence.

En­tre­pre­neur­ship, the act of tak­ing risks in pur­suit of an op­por­tu­ni­ty, dri­ves eco­nom­ic growth, fos­ters in­no­va­tion and in­creas­es a coun­try’s com­pet­i­tive­ness. Over the years suc­ces­sive gov­ern­ments of T&T have pro­posed ma­jor in­fra­struc­ture and ur­ban-de­vel­op­ment projects with the po­ten­tial for en­tre­pre­neur­ial op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Keep­ing it sim­ple may be the cru­cial step to curb­ing con­struc­tion costs when at­tempt­ing to build a home.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Na­tion­al Flour Mills Ltd (NFM) yes­ter­day re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­it of $39.7 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025, a 3.68 per cent in­crease com­pared to its $38.35 mil­lion prof­it for the same pe­ri­od in 2024.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal con­firmed dis­cus­sions be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien Ltd. re­main ac­tive, as both sides ex­plore the com­pa­ny’s fu­ture op­er­a­tions and po­ten­tial new in­vest­ments in the coun­try.
Speak­ing with Busi­ness Guardian on Tues­day af­ter­noon, Dr Mooni­lal con­firmed that de­spite the on­go­ing sus­pen­sion of Nu­trien’s ni­tro­gen (am­mo­nia and urea) op­er­a­tions, com­mu­ni­ca­tion has not bro­ken down. “We con­tin­ue to have di­a­logue with them on their fu­ture and in­vest­ment pos­si­bil­i­ties in T&T,” he said. “They have not closed the door on T&T, and we have not closed the door on Nu­trien.”
Nu­trien an­nounced a con­trolled shut­down of its Trinidad Ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions on Oc­to­ber 23, cit­ing port ac­cess re­stric­tions im­posed by the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion and a lack of re­li­able and eco­nom­ic nat­ur­al gas sup­ply. The com­pa­ny al­so con­tin­ues to dis­pute claims that it owes sev­er­al mil­lion dol­lars in retroac­tive port fees, a dis­agree­ment that has stalled progress.
While Dr Mooni­lal de­clined to pre­dict whether Nu­trien would re­sume full op­er­a­tions be­fore the end of the year, he said the Gov­ern­ment re­mains com­mit­ted to main­tain­ing open com­mu­ni­ca­tion and ex­plor­ing ar­eas of col­lab­o­ra­tion be­yond en­er­gy. “We con­tin­ue to talk about their strate­gic in­volve­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go, both in the en­er­gy sec­tor and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor,” he ex­plained.
Mooni­lal high­light­ed the on­go­ing dis­cus­sions in­clude po­ten­tial part­ner­ships that could see Nu­trien play a more in­te­grat­ed role in the coun­try’s food pro­duc­tion ef­forts, part of a wider gov­ern­ment strat­e­gy to link the en­er­gy and agri­cul­tur­al sec­tors.
When asked about the com­pa­ny’s pre­vi­ous­ly in­di­cat­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, time­line for re­view­ing its op­er­a­tions, Dr Mooni­lal said he would not spec­u­late on whether the com­pa­ny would ex­tend its stay or scale back. “I can’t pre­dict any move­ment of Nu­trien or any com­pa­ny,” he said, “but we con­tin­ue to talk about their strate­gic in­volve­ment.”
Sources at Nu­trien told the Busi­ness Guardian that the min­is­ter was ex­pect­ed to meet with the Cana­di­an com­pa­ny’s man­age­ment onTues­day, but that the meet­ing was pushed back to to­day (Thurs­day).
The source said it is crit­i­cal that a meet­ing takes place soon.
Two weeks ago, Guardian Me­dia spoke to the min­is­ter, who was asked whether the stick­ing point of retroac­tive port fees had been re­solved. Mooni­lal de­clined to go in­to de­tail. “These are mat­ters that are re­al­ly con­fi­den­tial that we are dis­cussing,” he said.
He con­firmed that the Gov­ern­ment had al­ready made arrange­ments to man­age the im­pact of Nu­trien’s clo­sure, par­tic­u­lar­ly re­gard­ing car­bon diox­ide (CO₂) sup­ply, which had been af­fect­ed by the com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to sus­pend op­er­a­tions last month.