Bali­raj, CEO at Massy Wood Group Ltd, suc­ceeds Jerome Dook­ie, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Ltd, Caribbean Ni­tro­gen Com­pa­ny Ltd, and Ni­tro­gen (2000) Un­lim­it­ed, who is step­ping down as chair­man af­ter serv­ing for the past two years.

Three months af­ter be­com­ing third Small and Medi­um En­ter­prise (SME) to be list­ed on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change, Er­ic So­lis Mar­ket­ing re­port­ed af­ter-tax profi of $1,144,326 for the first half of its 2025 fi­nan­cial year (May 1–Oc­to­ber 31, 2024).

On Tues­day evening, The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank paid trib­ute to gov­ern­ment min­istries, state-owned agen­cies, and pub­lic en­ti­ties for in­no­va­tion and ex­cel­lence in ser­vice .

Guyana is re­vis­it­ing a dark his­to­ry near­ly half a cen­tu­ry af­ter US Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his fol­low­ers died in the rur­al in­te­ri­or of the South Amer­i­can coun­try.

A time­ly part­ner­ship be­tween two for­mer West In­dies crick­eters is be­ing hailed as a cru­cial push for the re­duc­tion of green­house gas emis­sions in T&T.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of T&T Ltd (NGC) has shipped its first two car­goes of Liq­ue­fied Nat­ur­al Gas (LNG) from At­lantic’s Trains II and III since the com­mer­cial re­struc­ture of At­lantic in De­cem­ber 2023.

Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of So­cial Sci­ences and se­nior lec­tur­er of Tourism at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Dr Acol­la Cameron wants the tourism sec­tor to be tak­en more se­ri­ous­ly as an en­gine for eco­nom­ic growth, rather than mere “to­kenism” in the de­bate on how to di­ver­si­fy the econ­o­my.

With en­er­gy sec­tor rev­enue not pro­ject­ed to in­crease sub­stan­tial­ly, the for­eign ex­change mar­ket is ex­pect­ed to re­main very tight over the next two years, while gov­ern­ment’s fis­cal con­straints are en­vis­aged to linger. In this re­gard, the thrust to com­plete and gain sig­nif­i­cant mo­men­tum in key pub­lic projects in 2025 could re­sult in a larg­er fis­cal deficit than the 2.9 per cent of GDP pro­ject­ed in the 2025 bud­get, while pub­lic debt could rise fur­ther.

In a new pod­cast called Au­to Fo­cus broad­cast ear­li­er this week, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly chief sec­re­tary, Far­ley Chavez Au­gus­tine, de­fined what the rul­ing par­ty in To­ba­go means by au­ton­o­my.

The en­er­gy tran­si­tion is set to be a daunt­ing task for the Caribbean, but T&T may be bet­ter placed than most be­cause of the very in­dus­try the tran­si­tion is set to dis­place.

The Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try yes­ter­day wel­comed a High Court judg­ment that the min­istry says ruled against a for­eign-used ve­hi­cle im­porter in a claim for ju­di­cial re­view brought against it.

Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try Paula Gopee-Scoon has hailed eTecK’s lead­er­ship and staff for its in­stru­men­tal work in fa­cil­i­tat­ing in­vest­ments lo­cal­ly.