The Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB) has ap­proved a US$10 mil­lion line of cred­it aimed at ex­pand­ing ac­cess to fi­nanc­ing for small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es (SMEs) in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The South­ern Caribbean and Guyana’s ship­ping and lo­gis­tics sec­tor was giv­en a sig­nif­i­cant boost last week af­ter PAS Car­go Guyana of­fi­cial­ly opened its new off-port bond­ed fa­cil­i­ty at the Rome Cor­ri­dor, in­tro­duc­ing what is ex­pect­ed to be the first 30-minute car­go clear­ance guar­an­tee in the South Amer­i­can state.

Calls are in­ten­si­fy­ing for the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism to ur­gent­ly re­store the Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion, as econ­o­mist and for­mer chair­man Dr Ronald Ramkissoon warns that con­tin­ued de­lays are un­der­min­ing the coun­try’s busi­ness en­vi­ron­ment at a crit­i­cal junc­ture.
Ramkissoon, in an in­ter­view yes­ter­day with Guardian Me­dia, cau­tioned that the ab­sence of a func­tion­ing com­mis­sion risks erod­ing in­vestor con­fi­dence and weak­en­ing the frame­work for fair com­pe­ti­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly at a time when T&T needs to strength­en its eco­nom­ic re­silience.
“One would have thought the in­com­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion would have made it eas­i­er to do busi­ness when the reg­u­la­to­ry en­vi­ron­ment is not be­ing put in place.

A sharp clash has emerged over the man­age­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go NGL (TTNGL), with chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen de­fend­ing the com­pa­ny’s re­cent de­ci­sions, while ac­cus­ing the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion of pre­sid­ing over years of val­ue de­struc­tion tied to Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd (PPG­PL).

Min­is­ter in the En­er­gy Min­is­ter Ernesto Ke­sar met with of­fi­cials from El Do­ra­do Off­shore and Ramps Lo­gis­tics in Para­mari­bo, Suri­name dur­ing Caribbean En­er­gy Week 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Mort­gage Bank (TTMB) has un­veiled three new mort­gage plans fol­low­ing re­search in­to mod­ern de­mands of prospec­tive home­own­ers and af­ford­able hous­ing.

While en­cour­aged by the in­creased de­mand for elec­tric ve­hi­cles (EVs) in Trinidad and To­ba­go, brand man­ag­er and team leader for BYD T&T, Ker­ri-Ann Seer­at­tan, is warn­ing the pub­lic against pur­chas­ing EVs from unau­tho­rised deal­ers.

The re­cent and rapid rise in busi­ness de­vel­op­ment in the San Juan area has pleased MP for the area Sad­dam Ho­sein.

Kern Dass, chair­man of ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) has been of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed chair­man of the board of di­rec­tors of NEL, ef­fec­tive March 25.

Af­ter more than a decade of wait­ing, the Debe cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is set to open lat­er this year, with the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in south is ex­pect­ing it to boost eco­nom­ic and busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty in the area.

A rough start, which gave way to a strong fin­ish in 2025, has giv­en the ANSA McAL group en­cour­age­ment that mo­men­tum is in their favour.

The Cen­tral Bank of T&T has main­tained its re­po rate at 3.50 per cent, con­tin­u­ing a cy­cle of sta­bil­i­ty that it first in­tro­duced in March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.