Term Fi­nance, a dig­i­tal lender in the Caribbean, has en­tered in­to a nov­el arrange­ment with Ax­cel Fi­nance, a con­sumer cred­it provider op­er­at­ing in Bar­ba­dos, An­tigua, St. Lu­cia, and Grena­da.  

Last week, a What­sApp mes­sage was sent to me out­lin­ing that a pay­ment ser­vice provider named Sure­Pay had an­nounced that it was ter­mi­nat­ing its ser­vice in Trinidad and To­ba­go ef­fec­tive March 15, 2025.

A $15 mil­lion dol­lar in­vest­ment in its yo­gurt line con­tin­ues to reap healthy re­wards for Cream­ery Nov­el­fties Ltd. So much so, that the com­pa­ny is ol­low­ing sev­er­al lu­cra­tive leads for ex­port.

But in its 10th an­niver­sary, the band is hop­ing to ex­pand the reach of its de­sign­ers by high­light­ing the im­pact of Car­ni­val on fash­ion while al­so find­ing a new lane of sus­tain­abil­i­ty for the band.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) yes­ter­day re­port­ed that the rate of in­fla­tion in T&T for Jan­u­ary 2025 was 0.7 per cent.

De­spite the chal­lenges that mi­grants are fac­ing in the Unit­ed States, Na­tal­ie Lam­ming, who was born in T&T and owns busi­ness­es in Brook­lyn, New York en­cour­ages T&T na­tion­als at home and those abroad to nev­er give up on their dreams of open­ing a busi­ness.

The JMMB Group Lim­it­ed has re­port­ed a net prof­it of J$1.83 bil­lion ($78.5 mil­lion or US$11.5 mil­lion) for the nine-month pe­ri­od end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024.

Bmo­bile has been named Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fastest and best mo­bile net­work by Ook­la® for Q3 and Q4 2024.

Ad­ven­sus, a Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic con­tact cen­tre and busi­ness process out­sourc­ing (BPO) ser­vices com­pa­ny, yes­ter­day an­nounced the launch of its US$6 mil­lion de­liv­ery fa­cil­i­ty in Long­denville, Ch­agua­nas.  

The work­force in the en­er­gy sec­tor re­mains male dom­i­nat­ed, es­pe­cial­ly in front­line po­si­tions in ac­tiv­i­ties like op­er­a­tions, main­te­nance, drilling and con­struc­tion.

Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) and dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy can sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­hance op­er­a­tions in ma­ture oil and gas basins, where re­sources are of­ten hard­er to find due to de­ple­tion and in­creased op­er­a­tional and in­fra­struc­tur­al chal­lenges.

Aretha Franklin may have been the Queen of Soul, but she cer­tain­ly was not the Queen of record-keep­ing. Her fail­ure to en­sure that her last will and tes­ta­ment was prop­er­ly record­ed and safe­ly stored, re­sult­ed in a five-year long dis­pute over her vast es­tate among her chil­dren af­ter her death in 2018 .