The T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) has an­nounced a ma­jor in­vest­ment mile­stone: the ma­tu­ri­ty of the Ca­lyp­so Macro In­dex Fund (CMIF).

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) is­sued an in­ter­est­ing com­mu­niqué on An­nu­al Pro­cure­ment Plan­ning on 12 No­vem­ber 2025 to pub­lic bod­ies. The com­mu­niqué an­nounces what ap­pears to be a fun­da­men­tal re-in­ter­pre­ta­tion of pro­cure­ment plan­ning oblig­a­tions un­der sec­tion 27(1) of the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act (PPDP­PA). The con­tent, tone, and omis­sions in that com­mu­ni­ca­tion re­quire care­ful scruti­ny, not be­cause plan­ning is a bu­reau­crat­ic ex­er­cise, but be­cause pro­cure­ment plan­ning is one of the most im­por­tant in­ter­nal-con­trol mech­a­nisms in the mod­ern gov­er­nance ar­chi­tec­ture.

As Gov­ern­ment moves to ap­point a ma­jor­i­ty of the di­rec­tors on the board of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL), which would en­sure con­trol by the State of the re­gion’s largest fi­nan­cial ser­vices com­pa­ny, di­rec­tor Ja­son Mootoo, an at­tor­ney, has re­signed.

About two week­sa­go, Shi­va Bisses­sar, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Pina­ka Con­sult­ing Ltd, de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at 30th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of the es­tab­lish­ment of In­folink Sys­tems Ltd, which was cre­at­ed ini­tial­ly to pro­vide a lo­cal deb­it card switch­ing in­fra­struc­ture.

Massy Hold­ings Ltd’s planned sale of its Ja­maican dis­tri­b­u­tion busi­ness to Aca­do Ltd, a sub­sidiary of T&T’s Agos­ti­ni, has been frozen pend­ing the sale of an in­sulin brand to a third par­ty dis­trib­u­tor.

“Vin­cent Pereira has an­nounced his re­tire­ment/res­ig­na­tion from Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings (RFHL). I have known him for decades, and he has said that he is sell­ing all his shares in the bank, and I should do the same. I am go­ing to fol­low his ad­vice; he has nev­er guid­ed me wrong. This is all be­cause of gov­ern­ment in­ter­fer­ence in a very, very suc­cess­ful BANK.

Ja­maica’s Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion (FTC) says the sale of 100 per cent of Massy Dis­tri­b­u­tion (Ja­maica) to Caribbean Dis­tri­b­u­tion Part­ners (CPD), a sub­sidiary of T&T’s Agos­ti­ni Group, will cre­ate a mo­nop­oly in the sale of in­sulin in Ja­maica.

Eco­nom­ic an­a­lyst Mar­i­ano Browne says T&T’s new­ly passed cryp­tocur­ren­cy leg­is­la­tion is “a con­ser­v­a­tive but nec­es­sary move” to bring dig­i­tal fi­nance un­der reg­u­la­to­ry over­sight.

Agos­ti­ni has an­nounced that Nigel Camp­bell, who has served as group chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer (CFO), is ex­pect­ed to re­sign from his po­si­tion ef­fec­tive De­cem­ber 31, 2025.

A pos­si­ble shift in the T&T Gov­ern­ment’s tra­di­tion­al trad­ing ties away from Cari­com in favour of new part­ners is gen­er­at­ing de­bates not on­ly in T&T but across the re­gion.

Ear­ly in the new year, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (T&T) en­er­gy in­dus­try will meet the dawn of a new era. On Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, the much-an­tic­i­pat­ed Car­bon Bor­der Ad­just­ment Mech­a­nism (CBAM), pre­sent­ed by the Eu­ro­pean Union (EU), takes ef­fect. CBAM is an EU pol­i­cy that places a car­bon cost on cer­tain im­port­ed goods to pre­vent “car­bon leak­age” and en­cour­age glob­al de­car­bon­i­sa­tion. Af­ter Mozam­bique, T&T is the sec­ond largest ex­porter of car­bon in­ten­sive prod­ucts to Eu­rope.

The Cen­tral Bank is reaf­firm­ing its com­mit­ment to im­prov­ing ef­fi­cien­cy and trans­paren­cy in the for­eign ex­change mar­ket, even as per­sis­tent de­mand-sup­ply im­bal­ances con­tin­ue to chal­lenge the sys­tem.