In­ter­est in en­er­gy sec­tor ser­vice providers based in T&T has risen sig­nif­i­cant­ly due to re­newed ac­tiv­i­ty in Venezuela’s nat­ur­al gas fields as well as the con­tin­ued de­vel­op­ment of en­er­gy in­dus­tries in Guyana and Suri­name.

Months af­ter one of the coun­try’s news­pa­pers closed its doors, an­oth­er has in­formed staff that it is re­trench­ing em­ploy­ees.

Nathan Dur­gans­ingh was just 17 years old when he found a niche mar­ket with­in his cir­cle of friends; clean­ing their shoes for a small fee. At 24, he is the own­er of a small busi­ness that out­grew its space at his San­ta Cruz home and had to be re­lo­cat­ed to a larg­er space in St Au­gus­tine.

The Caribbean rum in­dus­try is cur­rent­ly nav­i­gat­ing a pe­ri­od of ad­just­ment as pro­duc­ers con­tend with post-pan­dem­ic eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, evolv­ing trade con­di­tions, and un­even de­mand across key in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.

Amid mount­ing ques­tions about op­er­a­tions at var­i­ous Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ties, Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Ltd has signed a new nat­ur­al gas sup­ply con­tract with the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Gov­ern­ment has wel­comed the as­sess­ment of the T&T econ­o­my from the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF), de­scrib­ing the find­ings as a sign of re­newed in­ter­na­tion­al con­fi­dence in the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic di­rec­tion and a val­i­da­tion of its pol­i­cy agen­da.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) re­port­ed yes­ter­day there has been a slight de­crease in the in­fla­tion rate in April, but there was an in­crease in the price of food and non-al­co­holic bev­er­ages last month.

Bar­ba­dos is deep­en­ing dis­cus­sions with Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) over route de­vel­op­ment and re­gion­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty at a time when the ma­jor­i­ty Trinidad and To­ba­go-owned car­ri­er re­mains un­der pres­sure over prof­itabil­i­ty, op­er­a­tional per­for­mance, and its long-de­layed au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments.

In the com­pa­ny's unau­dit­ed in­ter­im fi­nan­cial state­ments for the quar­ter end­ed March 31, 2026, the com­pa­ny re­port­ed to­tal com­pre­hen­sive in­come of $10.88 mil­lion, an im­prove­ment over the $9.5 mil­lion record­ed for the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

T&T’s eco­nom­ic out­look is show­ing ten­ta­tive signs of sta­bil­i­ty, but an­a­lysts and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty warn that the coun­try re­mains caught be­tween short-term gains from favourable ex­ter­nal con­di­tions and deep-root­ed struc­tur­al weak­ness­es that con­tin­ue to lim­it sus­tain­able growth.

The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny Ltd (Wit­co) has re­port­ed a five per cent in­crease in rev­enue for the first quar­ter of 2026, re­flect­ing con­tin­ued com­mer­cial mo­men­tum de­spite per­sis­tent in­dus­try chal­lenges.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) yes­ter­day pro­ject­ed that the T&T econ­o­my would grow by 0.8 per cent in 2026, and that in­fla­tion is ex­pect­ed to rise tem­porar­i­ly to around 3.1 per cent this year.